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SUMMARY:You Won’t Believe How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait!
DESCRIPTION:“Visting Speaker: Jennifer Pan\, Assistant Professor of Communication\, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Sociology\, Stanford University \nAbstract \nThere is a growing consensus that political propaganda in the age of mass media worked\, shaping attitudes and behaviors in favor of governments by suppressing alternative media sources and dominating public attention. What happens to political propaganda in the age of digital media? In the digital context\, political actors do not automatically dominate systems of information transmission even when they successfully deploy online censorship. Online censorship can reshape the contours of what information is available on social media\, but censorship does not decrease the overall volume of information. The constraints and opportunities provided by modern social media platforms\, which are generally built on an ad-revenue model and therefore aim to maximize clicks\, are transforming the ways which governments engage in propaganda online. In this paper\, we use ethnographic fieldwork to show how producers of propaganda in China face incentives to capture clicks. We then collect and analyze posts made by over 200 Chinese city-government WeChat accounts to show how “clickbait”—the process of providing just enough information in a headline so as to grab the reader’s attention by creating an information gap—features prominently in governments’ propaganda strategies. While governments’ use of clickbait is associated with more views\, it does not predict more positive assessments of content. \nThis paper is co-authored with Yingdan Lu\, a PhD student in Communication at Stanford. \nAbout the speaker \n\nJennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication\, and an Assistant Professor\, by courtesy\, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. Her research is at the intersection of political communication\, computational social science\, and authoritarian politics. Pan focuses on how autocrats control information to shape public preferences and behaviors in the digital age\, using experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other non-democratic regimes. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, The Journal of Politics\, and Science. Pan received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government\, and she received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. More information on her work can be found at jenpan.com.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/you-wont-believe-how-the-chinese-government-uses-clickbait/
LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191202T215840Z
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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: Yochai Benkler
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n“Please join us for a talk by Yochai Benkler\, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School. \nCo-sponsored with the Department of Communication Studies and the Shorenstein Center. \nThis event is part of the Misinformation Speaker Series\, co-sponsored by the NULab and the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics\, and Public Policy. \nSpeaker Bio:\nYochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School\, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation\, information production\, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006)\, which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association\, the American Sociological Association\, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from Oxford University in recognition of his contribution to the study and public understanding of the Internet and information goods. His work is socially engaged\, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011\, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for 2007\, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. It is also anchored in the realities of markets\, cited as “perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving\, enthusiast-driven Internet” by the Financial Times and named best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications\, and serves on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofits engaged in working towards an open society. His work can be freely accessed at http://www.benkler.org. \nIn addition to his faculty appointment in the Law School\, Dr. Benkler is the Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.” \n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta  \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-speaker-series-yochai-benkler/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191202T215852Z
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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: Andrew Guess
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n“Please join us for a talk by Andrew Guess\, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. \nSpeaker Bio:  Andrew Guess (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication\, public opinion\, and political behavior. Via a combination of experimental methods\, large datasets\, machine learning\, and innovative measurement\, he studies how people choose\, process\, spread\, and respond to information about politics. Recent work investigates the extent to which online Americans’ news habits are polarized (the popular “echo chambers” hypothesis)\, patterns in the consumption and spread of online misinformation\, and the effectiveness of efforts to counteract misperceptions encountered on social media. Coverage of these findings has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Slate\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, and other publications. His research has been supported by grants from the Volkswagen Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, and the American Press Institute and published in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, and Political Analysis.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-speaker-series-andrew-guess/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T133000
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CREATED:20191202T215904Z
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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: David G. Rand
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n“Please join us for a talk by David G. Rand\, Associate Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. \nThis event is part of the Misinformation Speaker series\, co-sponsored by the NULab and the Shorenstein Center for Media\, Politics\, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. \nSpeaker Bio: David G. Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and an Associate Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT Sloan\, and the Director of the Human Cooperation Laboratory and the Applied Cooperation Team. \nBridging the fields of behavioral economics and psychology\, David’s research combines mathematical/computational models with human behavioral experiments and online/field studies to understand human behavior. His work uses a cognitive science perspective grounded in the tension between more intuitive versus deliberative modes of decision-making\, and explores topics such as cooperation/prosociality\, punishment/condemnation\, perceived accuracy of false or misleading news stories\, political preferences\, and the dynamics of social media platform behavior. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such Nature\, Science\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\, the American Economic Review\, Psychological Science\, and Management Science. He has received widespread attention from print\, radio\, TV and social media outlets\, and has also written popular press articles for outlets including the New York Times\, Wired\, New Scientist\, and the APS Observer. He was named to Wired magazine’s The Smart List 2012: “50 people who will change the world\,” chosen as a 2012 Pop!Tech Science Fellow\, received the 2015 Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Research\, and was selected as fact-checking researcher of the year in 2017 by the Poytner Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network. Papers he has coauthored have been awarded Best Paper of the Year in Experimental Economics\, Social Cognition\, and Political Methodology. \nDavid received his BA in Computational Biology from Cornell University in 2004 and his PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard University in 2009\, was a post-doctoral researcher in Harvard University’s Department of Psychology from 2009 to 2013\, and was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Psychology\, Economics\, and Management at Yale University prior to joining the faculty at MIT. \nFor updates and more details\, please see here.” \n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-speaker-series-david-g-rand/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T190000
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SUMMARY:Databite No. 127: Jasmine McNealy | Data & Society
DESCRIPTION:“Data are currency. Data provide the fuel for decision-making and profit-making. Data offer evidence for enhancing health services\, infrastructure\, and zoning\, and for addressing environmental concerns. But the collection and use of data is spurring conflicts between cities\, corporate and civil society organizations\, and constituents. These conflicts occur on the grounds of data ownership\, access\, privacy\, and security. \nDr. McNealy traces these conflicts to our perception of data as a singular piece of property. A better metaphor for data\, she contends\, would be that of a networked representation or observation in an ecosystem. Dr. McNealy argues that we require an ecological approach for understanding this era of emergent technology and data — both for creating adequate policy\, and for protecting the vulnerable.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/databite-no-127-jasmine-mcnealy-data-society/
LOCATION:Data & Society Research Institute\, New York\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T170000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191114T151252Z
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SUMMARY:Databite No. 126: Joe Mulhall | Data & Society
DESCRIPTION:“Data & Society welcomes Joe Mulhall\, senior researcher at European anti-extremism NGO HOPE not hate\, for a public talk to explore how the international far right is leveraging the current climate crisis\, with a special focus on networked disinformation and exclusive new polling research across six countries around the world. \nOur planet is warming\, our seas are rising\, and while the human cost of this will be massive\, the human cause of it is undeniable. Or at least\, it should be. Rising sea levels and the desertification of already dry areas could see millions across our world being displaced. The climate crisis is a massive threat to quality of life\, but for some people\, it’s also an opportunity. Across Europe\, the 2015 migrant crisis destabilized civil society\, leading to the rise of the AfD in Germany\, the Lega party in Italy\, and allowing Viktor Orban to whip up anti-migrant rhetoric in Hungary. These conditions are a petri dish for conspiracy theorists\, politicians\, corporate interests\, and especially a boon for the rhetoric of extreme anti-migration factions pushing online disinformation.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/databite-no-126-joe-mulhall-data-society/
LOCATION:Data & Society Research Institute\, New York\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T140000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191202T210513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T212548Z
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SUMMARY:New America: Spotlight on Transparency
DESCRIPTION:“Over the past decade\, companies across different industries have begun issuing regular transparency reports so their customers and the general public can better understand the impact of the companies’ operations. Transparency reporting is now a best practice for reporting on a range of topics including government requests for user data\, content moderation\, pay transparency\, customer safety\, and sustainability efforts. Through their reports\, these companies and organizations provide statistical and qualitative information regarding how they treat their customers and stakeholders\, how they handle their customers’ information\, and how the companies’ operations affect their communities. While transparency reports differ across industries and subject areas\, these reports—from their development to the content—offer valuable lessons for companies across various sectors that looking to get started or improve their transparency reports.\n\nJoin New America’s Open Technology Institute for a panel event on the value of transparency reporting\, and how this practice can be expanded to focus on new issues and industries. \nFollow the conversation online using #TransparencyReport and following @OTI.” \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/new-america-spotlight-on-transparency/
LOCATION:New America\, Washington D.C\, 20005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T140000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191122T173713Z
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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: David Lazer
DESCRIPTION:“ABSTRACT: The Internet is increasingly the home of democracy. It is where people turn for civic information\, engage in political discourse public and private\, and turn to mobilize collectively. The virtual structures of the Internet are\, in some ways\, quite distinct from what preceded; and in other ways\, they reproduce and amplify those pre-existing patterns. The Internet can be the ultimate disseminator of misinformation; as well as the ultimate educator. People have at their fingertips more diverse sources of information than ever before; yet many of the institutions for the production of political and civic information are being eviscerated. This talk will discuss the informational and social logics of the Internet– what is our democracy\, today?– how they support and undermine democracy\, and concludes with a discussion of what structures and practices we need from the Internet to support democracy\, today. \nBIO: Northeastern University Professor David Lazer’s research focuses on the nexus of network science\, computational social science\, and collaborative intelligence. He is the founder of the citizen science website Volunteer Science. His research has been published in such journals as Science\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science\, the American Political Science Review\, and the Administrative Science Quarterly\, and has received extensive coverage in the media\, including the New York Times\, NPR\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, and CBS Evening News.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-speaker-series-david-lazer/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T170000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191122T152243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191122T172113Z
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SUMMARY:Can We Build Social Media that’s Good for Society?: UMass Amherst
DESCRIPTION:“Speaker: Ethan Zuckerman \nAbstract:  The tech backlash is in full force\, and it’s rapidly becoming conventional wisdom that social media is polarizing our politics\, abusing our attention\, misinforming our democracy and damaging our emotional health. But the situation is far more complex than it seems at first glance. Some of these critiques are not well supported by research. And those that are true apply to a particular model of social media\, based around surveillant advertising and an endless quest for human attention. What would it mean to build social media expressly designed to strengthen democratic society? Can we imagine an alternative system where public service digital media overcomes some of the thorniest problems of our contemporary online world?”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/can-we-build-social-media-thats-good-for-society-umass-amherst/
LOCATION:University of Massachusetts Amherst\, Amherst\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T130000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191106T173622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T204235Z
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SUMMARY:Information Wars: A Conversation with Richard Stengel - Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:“Join us for a conversation with Richard Stengel\, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy\, about his new book Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It. In conversation with moderators Amb. Wendy R. Sherman and Nancy Gibbs\, Stengel will delve into his time at the front lines of the Obama administration’s battle against disinformation campaigns by the Islamic State and Russia. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership.”\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/information-wars-a-conversation-with-richard-stengel-shorenstein-center/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T193000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191106T173923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T202354Z
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SUMMARY:Oxford Internet Institute Bellwether Lecture with Dr Alondra Nelson
DESCRIPTION:“The OII invites you to attend a lecture and drinks reception in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre\, followed by a drinks reception in Blackwell Hall. \nAlondra Nelson is President of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, an independent centre for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry in Princeton\, New Jersey. \nAn award-winning author\, Nelson has published widely-acclaimed books and articles exploring science\, technology\, medicine\, and social inequality. Her recent publications include a symposium in the British Journal of Sociology on the history of slavery\, genetic genealogy\, and the #GU272\, as well as coauthored articles in Public Library of Science (PLOS): Computational Biology\, Genetics in Medicine\, and Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. She is currently at work on a book about science and technology policy in the Obama administration.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/oxford-internet-institute-bellwether-lecture-with-dr-alondra-nelson/
LOCATION:Oxford Internet Institute\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T180000
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CREATED:20191018T154459Z
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SUMMARY:OXDEG: ‘Don’t forget to like\, subscribe and turn on the bell notifications’
DESCRIPTION:“We are delighted to welcome Zoë Glatt for an OxDEG talk on ‘An (auto)ethnography of YouTube creators’ labour in the online video industry’ \nIn the late 2000’s a new and exciting cultural phenomenon was bubbling under the surface. Around the world\, teens in their bedrooms were turning on their webcams to film asynchronous conversations with unknown audiences and uploading them to YouTube. Online communities started to flourish on the platform and new genres began to crystallise: vlogs\, tutorials\, comedy sketches\, video responses. In these early years being a ‘YouTuber’ was not yet a viable career and creator culture mainly flew under the radar of mainstream media organisations\, or else was viewed as trivial or insignificant. Since then\, we have seen the rise a new and powerful cross-platform creative industry. What began as pockets of amateur creators on YouTube has grown into a mature infrastructure of diverse and competing platforms\, such as Instagram\, TikTok\, Patreon\, Facebook and Twitch\, that combine online video and social networking affordances with opportunities for content creators to earn an income. \nShifting patterns of employment in the creative industries away from stable structures\, and the emergence of a new neoliberal worker-subject: entrepreneurial\, flexible\, self-directed and always available to work\, has been the topic of much academic scrutiny over the past decade (Gill 2010; Gill and Pratt 2008; Ross 2009; McRobbie 2016; Schlesinger 2016). Studies of this type of work have highlighted the collapse of boundaries between work and play\, intermittent and precarious income\, and a passionate attachment to work and the identity of creative labour (Erin-Duffy 2017). The platform-native online video industry offers new sociocultural and economic formations of creative labour\, fraught with ambivalence and precarity\, that require critical scrutiny. In particular\, the imperative for content creators to diversify income streams across multiple platforms\, brand deals\, merch and tour sales\, advertising revenue and crowdfunding\, all whilst scrutinising popularity metrics and audience feedback\, marks an extension of the neoliberal worker subjectivity. \nIn order to research the lived experiences and labour of aspiring and professional YouTube content creators\, I concluded that it was insufficient to merely watch\, like and comment on videos; I needed to become a YouTuber myself. In this talk\, as well as discussing my preliminary findings\, I reflect on my journey and experiences of using this experimental digital ethnographic method\, in addition to multi-sited online/offline fieldwork and interviews with content creators. As social media platforms have increasingly profound sociocultural impacts\, researchers need to find new methodological tools for engaging critically with this changing landscape. Autoethnography has provided me with significant insights into the labour of online creators\, from the ways in which they understand and navigate algorithms\, channel metrics and the multi-platform environment\, to the emotional highs and lows of trying to cultivate an audience.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/oxdeg-dont-forget-to-like-subscribe-and-turn-on-the-bell-notifications/
LOCATION:Oxford Internet Institute\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T140000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191016T150048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T154237Z
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SUMMARY:NULab Misinformation Speaker Series: Miriam Metzger
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n“Please join us for a talk by Miriam Metzger\, Professor\, Comm & Info Technologies\, Department of Communication\, UCSB. \nMore details coming soon! \nCo-sponsored with the Department of Communication Studies and the Shorenstein Center.  \nThis event is part of the Misinformation Speaker Series\, co-sponsored by the NULab and the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics\, and Public Policy.” \n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nulab-misinformation-speaker-series-miriam-metzger/
LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T161500
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190807T180722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190807T180722Z
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SUMMARY:Mozilla Festival: Panel on the Future of Disinformation
DESCRIPTION:“What will fake content look like in five years? In 10?”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/mozilla-festival-panel-on-the-future-of-disinformation/
LOCATION:Ravensbourne University\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T121500
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190807T174524Z
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SUMMARY:Mozilla Festival: Panel on The Algorithmic Gaze
DESCRIPTION:“Algorithms spread bias at gigabit speeds. What does this mean for society? And who can fix it?”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/mozilla-festival-panel-on-the-algorithmic-gaze/
LOCATION:Ravensbourne University\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T140000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191016T150057Z
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SUMMARY:NULab: Jen Schradie and Brooke Foucault Welles
DESCRIPTION:“Please join us for a book discussion and signing featuring Jen Schradie\, Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC) at Sciences Po\, and Brooke Foucault Welles\, Northeastern University. \nSchradie will be discussing and signing her new book: The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. Foucault Welles will be discussing and signing bookplates for her forthcoming book\, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice\, co-authored with Moya Bailey and Sarah J. Jackson. \nA light lunch will be provided.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nulab-schradie-and-brooke-foucault-welles/
LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T190000
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SUMMARY:NYU Calendar: News On The Right
DESCRIPTION:“This event centers on the forms and formation of right-wing movements and conservative media outlets as they shaped the conditions leading up to the 2016 Presidential election\, with an eye towards 2020. \nReece Peck is an Assistant Professor of Media Culture at College of Staten Island\, CUNY. His focuses on populist rhetorical traditions and the cultural politics of class\, with particular attention to the role of television news and tabloid media. His book\, Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class (Cambridge\, 2018)\, develops a theoretical framework for interpreting the populist rhetorical address and branding strategy of Fox News and other key conservative media outlets. \nKhadijah White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers. She conducts ethnographic media research in the United States\, Australia\, and South Africa with an attention to inter-relations of social movements\, news\, politics\, and race. Her book\, The Branding of Right-Wing Activism: The News Media and the Tea Party (Oxford\, 2018)\, is a multi-platform study of the rise of the Tea Party via online\, print\, broadcast\, and cable news.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nyu-calendar-news-on-the-right/
LOCATION:New York University\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20191002T203855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T151634Z
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SUMMARY:NULab Misinformation Speaker Series: Jaime Settle
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n“Please join us for a talk by Professor Jaime Settle\, William & Mary: “Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America” \nAbstract: Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political party? In this book\, the author argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among American political elites\, the way we communicate on Facebook uniquely facilitates psychological polarization among the American public.Frenemies introduces the END Framework of social media interaction. END refers to a subset of content that circulates in a social media ecosystem: a personalized\, quantified blend of politically informative expression\, news\, and discussion seamlessly interwoven into a wider variety of socially informative content. Scrolling through the News Feed triggers a cascade of processes that result in negative attitudes about those who disagree with us politically. The inherent features of Facebook\, paired with the norms of how people use the site\, heighten awareness of political identity\, bias the inferences people make about others’ political views\, and foster stereotyped evaluations of the political out-group. \nBiography: Jaime Settle is the David and Carolyn Wakefield Term Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary. She is a scholar of American political behavior with expertise in the fields of political psychology and communication. Settle’s research focuses on how political interactions—in both face-to-face and online contexts—affect the way individuals perceive conflict in their environment\, evaluate other people\, and engage within the political system. She integrates tools from other disciplines—such as behavior genetics\, psychophysiology\, and data science—to inform our approach in understanding key questions within political science. Settle has published 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts or chapters in venues such as Nature\, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, the American Journal of Political Science\, and the Journal of Politics. In 2018\, her first book Frenemies: How Facebook Polarizes America was published by Cambridge University Press and won a best book award from the Experiments in Politics section and an honorable mention from the Political Networks section of the American Political Science Association. She serves on the board of the American National Election Study and is an associate editor at the Journal of Experimental Political Science. Settle received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Richmond and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego. She is the director of the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab and co-director of the Social Science Research Methods Center. \nCo-sponsored with the Department of Political Science and the Shorenstein Center. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but if you are not a member of the Northeastern community\, please email Sarah Connell (sa.connell[at]northeastern[dot]edu) to RSVP.” \n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nulab-misinformation-speaker-series-jaime-settle/
LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T160000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190425T174715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190425T174715Z
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SUMMARY:First Annual CivicLex Media & Democracy Seminar
DESCRIPTION:“Please join us for the First Annual CivicLex Media & Democracy Seminar at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning! \nThe event will feature a panel conversation with Andrea Hart (City Bureau Chicago)\, Tom Eblen (Lexington Herald-Leader) and Carly Muetterties (Kentucky Council for the Social Studies)\, followed by an interactive workshop focusing on the Knight Foundation and Aspen Institute’s 2019 report Crisis in Democracy.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/first-annual-civiclex-media-democracy-seminar/
LOCATION:Carnegie Center for Literacy\, Lexington\, KY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T203000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190405T201300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190405T201300Z
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SUMMARY:The Myth of the Media: Historicizing Journalism's Role in American Democracy
DESCRIPTION:“Alternative facts and fake news have complicated our trust in the Fourth Estate\, but has our media ever been truly objective and democratic? Join BHS and the Social Science Research Council for a discussion that challenges that notion and explores America’s long-standing romanticizing of what the media is and how it functions. Race\, gender\, and power have always played an essential role defining the news we serve to the public. We’ll look at the people who have benefitted from this – and those who have been harmed – with SiriusSM host and former New York Daily News columnist Karen Hunter; Kim Gallon\, founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective and assistant professor of history at Purdue University; and Andie Tucher\, director of Columbia Journalism School’s PhD program who is currently working on a book about the history of fake news. Moderated by Kathryn Cramer Brownell\, associate professor at Purdue whose work focuses on the how media and popular culture influence American political institutions.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-myth-of-the-media-historicizing-journalisms-role-in-american-democracy/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Historical Society\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T193000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190425T173552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190425T173552Z
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SUMMARY:Facebook Made Me Do It: Social Media and Democracy | The Alliance Series
DESCRIPTION:“Social media platforms recently came under scrutiny after they failed to prevent the creation of fake accounts aimed at manipulating the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The impact of social media on democracy and public debate is felt in many other ways: today’s algorithms\, for instance\, tend to encourage the spread of emotionally charged opinions\, and create rabbit holes of converging viewpoints rather that exposing us to conflicting perspectives; the most extreme views or those that express moral outrage also tend to gain more traction than moderate and balanced opinions. At the same time\, social media have provided new platforms for democratic debate\, encouraging a broader range of individuals to engage in political dialogue\, and have made a diversity of channels available to users on which they can express themselves. \nThis conversation on social media and democracy between Joan Donovan\, Director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Harvard Kennedy School and Célia Zolynski and Judith Rochfeld\, Law Professors from Paris I Sorbonne\, is presented as part of the Alliance Series at Albertine. The conversation will be moderated by Kris-Stella Trump\, director of the Anxieties of Democracy program at the Social Science Research Council.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/facebook-made-me-do-it-social-media-and-democracy-the-alliance-series/
LOCATION:Albertine\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190510
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190412T180127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190412T180127Z
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SUMMARY:Reporting From the Front Lines of the Information Wars
DESCRIPTION:“Good journalism is no longer sufficient to combat the assault on truth and democracy. Media companies are striving to counter the threat of information warfare by working in new and different ways\, and to respond to the ethics challenges posed by this struggle. \nAt this exclusive event\, you’ll hear from journalists—including Daily Beast Editor Noah Schactman\, NPR Media Reporter David Folkenflik and Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa—about building credibility in the era of liars and leaks. You’ll dissect case studies with standards editors including The New York Times’ Phil Corbett and CNN’s Stephen Holmes. And you’ll better prepare for the future with insights from researchers\, security experts\, and big tech companies. \nJoin the Columbia Journalism Review\, the Poynter Institute\, and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism as we define the extent of this new information war and identify new best practices for media organizations. The event marks the formal launch of Columbia’s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security and Poynter’s Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/reporting-from-the-front-lines-of-the-information-wars/
LOCATION:Columbia School of Journalism\, New York City\, NY\, 1120
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T200000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190506T143521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T143521Z
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SUMMARY:Surveillance Capitalism\, Human Autonomy\, and You
DESCRIPTION:“Every time we search on a browser\, buy something online\, or post to our friends on social media\, we are leveraging free resources to save time and money. But our clicks and keystrokes also fuel a massive\, algorithm-powered industry that exploits our online experiences for profit. These dynamics are the focus of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism\, a chilling expose of today’s digital economy. Zuboff details how data about our digital activities is used to create predictive models of our behavior\, and how a range of corporate entities manipulate that data for profit and power. Join us for this illuminating discussion about surveillance capitalism’s exploitation of human experience in the digital age and how\, according to Zuboff\, our privacy\, security\, and the very idea of free will are being undermined.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/surveillance-capitalism-human-autonomy-and-you/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Historical Society\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190219T194532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T162243Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard University Misinformation Speaker Series: Miriam J. Metzger
DESCRIPTION:“Miriam J. Metzger is a professor in the Department of Communication at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersection of media\, information technology\, and trust\, centering on how information and communication technologies alter our understanding of credibility and force us to confront new challenges in protecting our privacy. She has published work that examines theoretical and regulatory changes brought about by emerging information and communication technologies. Her research has been widely published in the field of communication\, and she has co-edited two volumes investigating issues of digital literacy. Miriam is a faculty affiliate of the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara and the Education Director at the university’s Center for Information\, Technology & Society.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/harvard-university-misinformation-speaker-series-prof-miriam-j-metzger/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T133000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190404T195027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T195027Z
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SUMMARY:Leaks\, Lies\, and Videotape: Revisiting Lebanese Politics in Light of the U.S. Elections of 2016
DESCRIPTION:“The years following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 featured many unusual political spectacles that would become all too familiar to Americans in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential elections. Accusations of fake news\, WikiLeaks\, and social media disinformation campaigns were widespread on the Lebanese scene between 2005-2011.\nWhat to make of the parallels between these two contexts? This talk revisits the 2005-2011 period\nin Lebanese politics in light of the revelations of the past few years. \nElias Muhanna is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Faculty Fellow in Middle East Studies at Brown University. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Nation and other publications.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/leaks-lies-and-videotape-revisiting-lebanese-politics-in-light-of-the-u-s-elections-of-2016/
LOCATION:Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T130000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190213T212026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T143830Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard University Misinformation Speaker Series: Deen Freelon
DESCRIPTION:“Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism. His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles\, book chapters and public reports\, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book. He has served as principal investigator on grants from the Knight Foundation\, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability for content analysis (ReCal)\, analyze large-scale network data from social media (TSM)\, and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public). He formerly taught at American University in Washington\, D.C.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/harvard-university-misinformation-speaker-series-deen-freelon/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T200000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190403T165559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T165559Z
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SUMMARY:Whose Right? Where Trump is Taking the Conservative Media
DESCRIPTION:“The Trump presidency brought revolutionary change to the Republican Party. Where will the American right’s decisive turn lead the conservative media? \nPresident Trump’s brand of conservative politics won out against the establishment in the Republican Party and is forever changing the conservative movement in America.While some conservative thought leaders spoke out against the outsider presidential candidate\, and some continue to do so\, President Trump has since been widely embraced by his party.\nThe Trump phenomenon is mirrored in the conservative media with news outlets prospering from pro-Trump coverage amid a difficult time for the journalism industry.” \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/whose-right-where-trump-is-taking-the-conservative-media/
LOCATION:George Washington Univeristy\, Washington D.C\, District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T130000
DTSTAMP:20261027T205315
CREATED:20190213T211234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T162312Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard University Misinformation Speaker Series: Leticia Bode
DESCRIPTION:“Dr. Bode is an associate professor in the Communication\, Culture\, and Technology master’s program at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, and her bachelor’s degree from Trinity University. Her work lies at the intersection of communication\, technology\, and political behavior\, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition and use of political information. This covers a wide area\, including projects looking at incidental exposure to political information on social media\, effects of exposure to political comedy\, use of social media by political elites\, selective exposure and political engagement in new media\, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment. Work on these subjects has appeared in Journal of Communication\, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication\, New Media and Society\, Mass Communication and Society\, Journal of Information Technology and Politics\, and Information\, Communication\, and Society\, and other journals. She also sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Technology and Politics\, and Social Media + Society.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/harvard-university-misinformation-speaker-series-prof-leticia-bode/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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