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David Lazer

Director, Lazer Lab

David Lazer is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and College of Computer and Information Science. His research interests include group learning in technology-mediated environments; consensus and opinion formation in groups, particularly in political settings, or pertaining to governance.

177 Huntington Ave, 10th floor

Boston, MA 02115

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David Lazer

Director, Lazer Lab

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David Lazer is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and College of Computer and Information Science. His research interests include group learning in technology-mediated environments; consensus and opinion formation in groups, particularly in political settings, or pertaining to governance.

177 Huntington Ave, 10th floor

Boston, MA 02115

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personal website

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Recent publications

Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search

Ronald E. Robertson, Shan Jiang, Kenneth Joseph, Lisa Friedland, David Lazer, Christo Wilson

Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction

November 6, 2018

Suppressing the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME)

Epstein, R., Robertson, R.E., Lazer, D., & Wilson, C.

Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction

November 1, 2018

Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy

Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, David M. J. Lazer

Cambridge University Press

September 6, 2018

How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence

Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer

August 13, 2018

Auditing the Personalization and Composition of Politically-Related Search Engine Results Pages

Ronald E. Robertson, David Lazer, Christo Wilson

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