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Agency & self-direction

How people gain meaningful control over their choices and participation in social systems.


A starting question.

What makes control meaningful, rather than merely available?

How people gain meaningful control over their choices and participation in social systems. This area connects questions about individual experience with the social and informational conditions around it.

Studying the relationships.

Our approach brings theory, computational modeling, and real-world inquiry into conversation. The aim is to understand not only how systems influence people, but how people can gain the capacity to shape those systems.

Read the organizing agenda