The Sociable Media Group at MIT investigates issues concerning society and identity in the networked world.

Projects include: Chat Circles, a different kind of chat space with circles to represent users, virtual movement and hearing range (conversations in the chat space can take place outside your hearing), ChitChat Cafe, a physical cafe which also allows users to be 'present' virtually, and Visual Who, a tool for visualizing the complex relationships among a large group of items.