2 years ago

Category: Business, Security, Data, Kubernetes, artificial-intelligence

What if media were optimized to benefit people? A nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City, Harmony Labs strives to better understand the impact of media on society, and build communities and tools to reform and transform media systems. As Brian Wanieswki, Executive Director at Harmony Labs puts it: “The media systems that we have now, for better or worse, have become outrage machines and sorting machines that put people into groups of like minds.

Thanks to their data partners, Harmony Labs has collected over 50 Terabytes of diverse media: TV, web, mobile, song lyrics, closed captions, social media, and more.

Once the data is in-house, Harmony Labs make it safe, secure, and accessible to a network of academic researchers who use it to investigate the influence of media systems on politics, society, and culture.