Open Publications:
UN Dept of Economic & Social Affairs
Digital Sociology:
Showdown
The future of work
Collective intelligence
Who controls the world?
Building digital democracy
The post journalistic world
The transdisciplinary meme
How to create a better world!
The impact of social openness
Why innovation thrives in cities
World Simulation - Dirk Helbing
Processes too complex to explain
Here's how America uses its land
Kira Radinsky is an Internet oracle
Technologists, big data and society
Driverless cars, who gets protected?
Structural properties of ego networks
The information theory of individuality
The dematerialization of consumption
When dense crowds act like soft solids
Anticipation is the key to crowd physics
What makes up the Internet of Things?
Digital library text scanning and analysis
Is global civilization headed for collapse?
The blockchain is dead. long live the DLT
Techno-skeptics' objection growing louder
Proposal for a 'Constitution of Information'
Reinventing society in the wake of big data
The unplumbed depths of government data
The data that turned the world upside down
Crossroads: labor pains of a new worldview
Understanding human mobility from Twitter
Have smartphones destroyed a generation?
Social power, social responsibility & science
The science of why we don't believe science
Hidden significance of the big data explosion
A real-time site for mapping flight information
The future of Earth's technological civilization
How smart lives will flow from 'insight streams'
Interplay between research, big data and HPC
The new world order in times of digital revolution
A prediction machine powered by big social data
The role of scientist in a human-centered society
The invisible network that keeps the world running
Japan's digital eyes can show your emotions for you
OECD skills outlook 2019 - thriving in a digital world
Success principles in a complex, digital world (video)
Why Twitter is the low hanging fruit of social analytics
Creating a planetary nervous system as a Citizen Web
Legal, social complexities of an augmented reality future
Understanding metropolitan patterns of daily encounters
Legal, social complexities of an augmented reality future
Why we need democracy 2.0 and capitalism 2.0 to survive
Tools for culture design: toward a science of social change
The demographic future of the world's 10 biggest countries
Neal Stephenson explains Silicon Valley's latest obsession
The Internet of Things is poised to change democracy itself
Big data challenges in social sciences & humanities research
Evaluating existing strategies to limit video game playing time
Mission analytics: data-driven decision making in government
Blockchain, The Age of Fang and being careless with language
Inside China's dystopian dreams: AI, shame and lots of cameras
The theory, practice and limits of Big Data for the social sciences
Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research
Evolutionary decomposition and the mechnisms of cultural change
Investigating dynamics of democratic elections using physics theory
Integrating social sciences and humanities interdisciplinary research
Mapping the online landscape to predict, prevent digital tipping points
Telling better stories: strengthening the stories in story and simulation
Societal, economic, ethical and legal challenges of the digital revolution
What, me worry? The role of affect in information seeking and avoidance
Scientists use math - and computer war games - to show how society evolved
A digital archive of slave voyages details the largest forced migration in history
The trillion internet observations showing how global sleep patterns are changing
Scientific data has become so complex, we have to invent new math to deal with it
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
Integrating social networks and human social motives to achieve social influence at scale
Social Science:
Edge
Maximilian Schich
Formula for Action
The GDELT Project
The Seshat Project
What is development?
Return of the oppressed
Harmonized perspectives
The aging, childless future
In defense of the generalist
Dictionary of World Biography
The Biosphere Code Manifesto
World social science report 2013
A real-time map of births and deaths
Honesty and beliefs about honesty in 15 countries
Why has the number of NGOs exploded since 1960?
Mining events with declassified diplomatic documents
Mathematicians predict the future with data from the past
There's a quiet revolution taking place in the social sciences
Evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas on complex networks
Institutional rigidity and evolutionary theory: trapped on a local maximum
Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
Human Development Report 2014: reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience
Social-Ecological Systems:
Ecological systems theory and practice
Social ecological systems: key definitions
Reducing population is no environmental 'quick fix'
Mixed methods analysis of urban environmental stewardship networks
New Earth surveillance tech is about to change everything, including us
Zero poverty ... think again: impact of climate change on development efforts
Coupled catastrophes: sudden shifts cascade and hop among interdependent systems