CSMR

Technologists at social media companies (product managers, designers, and engineers) are the day-to-day policymakers of today's social media landscape. CSMR, established in 2018, articulates principles and creates metrics and tools that empower technologists to set responsible policy... We are devoted to understanding how the contemporary information environment is influencing the public and what we can do about it. Our mission is to help media platforms meet their public responsibilities... In pursuit of our mission, we develop rigorous metrics using both surveys and computational social science techniques. Drawing on those descriptive findings and social science theory, we also develop educational resources and software tools that help journalists, policy makers, platform providers, and the public to be better producers, consumers, and distributors of information. The educational resources and software tools are refined through an iterative design and testing process that includes..

Also known as: Center for Social Media Responsibility

Primary location: Ann Arbor United States