top of page

READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education

practice_areas

Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education

The MiiE (Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education) Lab (pronounced “me” lab) harnesses the power of artificial intelligence tools to address critical questions in the social sciences, with a focus on issues related to education and society. By bringing together experts from diverse fields such as computer science and the social sciences, we aim to catalyze new research and develop innovative approaches to understanding complex social phenomena. 

 

Our interdisciplinary approach draws on cutting-edge techniques from fields such as computer vision and natural language processing to analyze high-dimensional data and generate insights into the factors that shape beliefs, attitudes, and decision-making. We strive to catalyze new research in the computational social sciences, drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, economics, and the humanities, and ultimately understanding how to help ensure that all children have equal opportunities to fully develop their potential.

wing.png
Press

MiiE in the Media

s3.jpg

IES

"Representation Matters: Exploring the Role of Gender and Race on Educational Outcomes"

s4.jpg

The Wall Street Journal

"Jack and the Bean Counters: A Woke Children’s Story"

s5.jpg

UChicago RCC

"Mind Bytes 2021 Captures Computational Research Moving Forward"

s2.jpg

Harris Public Policy

"Anjali Adukia Receives Grant to Research How Race, Gender Messages Affect Students"

Screen%20Shot%202021-05-25%20at%2012.40_

Harris Public Policy

"Path-breaking Use of Artificial Intelligence Reveals Racial and Gender Bias in Children’s Books"

codetogether.JPG

Code Together

"SciVis Unveils a Billion Cells, Covid-19 & Invisible Monsters"

p1.jpg

School Library Journal

"New Study Looks at Race, Gender Representation in Award-Winning Children’s Books"

s4.jpg

Columbia TC

"With an $880,000 IES Grant, TC’s Alex Eble Explores How Textbooks’ Messages Shape Children’s..."

inequi.jpeg

InequaliTalks

"Episode 19: What We Teach About Race and Gender -- with Anjali Adukia "

Screen Shot 2021-10-14 at 11.57.28 AM.png

The 74

"Study: AI Uncovers Skin-Tone in Most Beloved Children's Books"

Google.JPG

Google Case Study

Chicago Researchers Measure Representation in Children's Books with Google Cloud's Vision AI

RESEARCH

Research

Screen%20Shot%202021-04-21%20at%202.00_e

Project Summary

Screenshot 2023-05-30 at 10.10.16 AM.png

Measuring Representation of Race, Gender, and Age in Children’s Books: Face Detection and Feature Classification in Illustrated Images

Paper.JPG

Working Paper

graph.jpg

Data Visualizations

Paper 1_11.PNG

WACV 2022 Paper

Screenshot 2023-05-30 at 9.42.41 AM.png

Tales and Tropes: Gender Roles from Word Embeddings in a Century of Children's Books

AWARDS & EVENTS

g_edited_edited.jpg
APPAM Logo.png

CONNECT WITH US

Instagram_logo_2016.svg.png

@miielab

@MiiE Lab

@miielab

Partners

Partners

246-2464845_university-of-chicago-harris
tclogo.png
Sponsors

Thank you to generous support from

IES_InstituteOfEducationSciences_RGB.png
The research reported here was also supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A200478 to the University of Chicago.
bottom of page