Social computing has permeated most aspects of our lives, from work to play. In recent years, however, social platforms have faced challenges ranging from labor concerns about crowd work to misinformation on social media. These and other challenges, along with the emergence of new technical platforms, create opportunities to reimagine the future of social technologies. 

This talk will start with an overview of the research designing and deploying social computing systems to help millions of people connect and collaborate to learn new skills, crowdsource news reporting, and delegate tasks to hybrid AI systems. The rest of the time will be focused on talking about how our team here at Princeton will develop the next generation of public-interest social computing systems. For example, how we are working on identifying and developing the socio-technical layers needed to support community-owned gig work platforms.