I'm Yui Kondo, a first-year master student at Viral Communications at the MIT Media Lab. My research focuses on investigating the impact of algorithm-driven decision makings upon our everyday lives, with a particular emphasis on children and adolescents. My project Algorithmic Mirror invites reflection on how children’s online footprints may be silently transformed into profiles, and how inhabiting such mirrors might alter one’s sense of self.

Before MIT I completed an MSc Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute (UK) and BA Political Science at Waseda Univeristy (Japan).

Outside research, my high school won a national championship in karuta, a Japanese competitive poetry card game.