Prosocial Engineering is an open source marketing lab.
Our motivating thesis is: we cannot regulate large scale social engineering if we can't see it, and we can't see it without doing our own surveillance. Therefore: (1) every network can do its own self surveillance and (2) coordinate across networks to perform positive and open source social engineering, to crowd out bad actors.
Some of our notable work includes:
- Twitter Community Archive - a first of its kind "open culture research weather station"
- Anatomy of an Internet Argument - an open source psyop to make internet debates between strangers wholesome (or at least productive)
- Good & Evil Words - a prototype that demonstrates what monitoring & social engineering of collective understanding on a mass scale can look like
Owned and operated by Omar Shehata - omar@prosocialengineering.org
Other names for it could be "open sociology lab" or "open source intelligence agency". In all cases we're talking about intentional human behavior modification via information, using techniques that still work when open sourced.
This project wouldn't exist without original research by Ronen V & his work on a memetics institution, and funding from OhhShiny and Vitalik.