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Cooperation is an interdisciplinary community of researchers, projects, and practitioners engaged in studying the underlying factors that contribute to human cooperation. more >

The Berkman Cooperation Group is an interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners engaged in studying the underlying factors that contribute to human cooperation. Our current projects include a weekly seminar series where we discuss research on cooperation from a variety of academic disciplines, large-scale study of online cooperation, an investigation of how traditional institutions have adopted cooperative practices, and the development of an online platform for conducting economic game experiments.

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Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From Free Culture to Meta-Politics

In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – there are emerging forms of social cooperation. In the Spanish case, we have seen some of the largest demonstrations since the country made its transition to democracy in the 70s with massive occupations of public squares, attempts to prevent parliaments’ functioning and citizen assemblies of thousands of people taking place in spring and autumn 2011. Mayo Fuster Morell — a PhD candidate from the European University Institute in Florence — analyzes commonalities and differences between emerging forms of social cooperation that suggest a shift to a more active role of civic society in the network society.

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Book Talk: Yochai Benkler on How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest

Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler (The Wealth of Networks) is one of the world’s top thinkers on cooperative structures. In his new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest, he uses evidence from neuroscience, economics, sociology, biology, and real-world examples to break down the myth of self-interest and replace it with a model of cooperation in our businesses, our government, and our lives. Photo Courtesy Flickr user Nokton

Radio Berkman 183: The Cooperation

This week on Radio Berkman Yochai Benkler discusses his new book The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest with David Weinberger...

22 sep 2011

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The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest

Yochai Benkler draws on cutting-edge findings from neuroscience, economics, sociology, evolutionary biology, political science, and a wealth of real world examples to reveal how we can harness the power of human cooperation to improve business processes, design smarter technology, reform our economic systems, maximize volunteer contributions to science, reduce crime, improve the efficacy of civic movements, and more.

authored by yochai benkler, published on 10 aug 2011

Aaron Shaw, John Horton and Daniel Chen experiment in an online labor market, "Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters"

Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters

This paper presents the results of an experiment comparing the effects of social, financial, and hybrid incentive schemes on worker performance in an online labor market (Amazon's Mechanical Turk).

authored by aaron shaw, john horton, daniel chen, published on 21 mar 2011

Microfoundations and dynamics of online interactions and behavior

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Dave Rand on The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social Science onto the Internet

The internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for social scientists to recruit a large pool of subjects quickly, cheaply, and virtually effortlessly. Online labor markets, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), is one place where social scientists can easily find subjects to participate in unique cooperation studies in exchange for cash (where pay depends on choices in the study, rather just a flat rate). These labor markets also facilitate field studies, where 'subjects' are unaware they are in an experiment, but instead think they are just completing normal work tasks. Dave Rand—a Cooperation Fellow at the Berkman Center, as well as a Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics—describes designing and running experiments using MTurk, some successful experiments, and the lessons learned thus far.

Dave Rand discusses micro-volunteering, motivation, and generosity with Nora Young on CBC's Spark...

Help spread it around: Dave Rand & collaborators' new paper, Emotions as infectious diseases in a large social network...

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