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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:20191125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T200000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191023T182821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T140156Z
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SUMMARY:Citizens and Technology Summit 2019
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n“The Citizens and Technology Summit brings together communities\, researchers\, and advocates to share\, imagine\, and design citizen-led agendas for technology and society. \nHow can citizens work for a world where digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public? Leaders in the field will share lightning talks of inspiring projects to test the social impacts of technology\, discover effective actions for change\, and scale those discoveries. \nThe summit will also launch a new identity for the Citizens and Technology Lab (currently CivilServant)\, which started as a PhD project and has grown into a center for innovation at Cornell University. The summit is hosted by the Citizens and Technology Lab.” \n\n\n\n Event Listing Body  \n\n Listing Hero Details
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/citizens-and-technology-summit-2019/
LOCATION:Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
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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:20191203T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T150000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191202T210535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T211310Z
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SUMMARY:Brennan Center for Justice: Policing Race & Technology
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n“Please join the Brennan Center for Justice and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for a full-day symposium on December 3\, 2019\, with a keynote address by Dr. Ruha Benjamin – Associate Professor of African American Studies\, Princeton University. \nThis convening aims to center the racial justice issues raised by modern surveillance technologies such as facial recognition\, predictive policing\, and social media monitoring tools. Through panels and discussion\, this symposium will explore topics such as: \n\nThe deployment of surveillance technologies in the face of well-documented error rates when analyzing communities of color\, and the ways in which their unchecked use threatens to obscure and automate racial inequalities under the guise of unbiased computer systems;\n\n\nThe need to analyze the use of surveillance tools in the context of well-established racial biases in policing\, which has knock-on effects on the criminal justice system;\n\n\nIssues raised by using surveillance technologies in tandem\, such as their exacerbated impact on communities of color and the creation of a pervasive dragnet that is incompatible with a democratic society; and\n\n\nThe different approaches to regulation\, including outright bans (enacted for facial recognition in cities such as San Francisco and Somerville\, MA)\, efforts to pass transparency measures (enacted in cities such as Seattle and Nashville\, TN)\, and the role of inspector general audits (influential reports in Los Angeles and Chicago).”\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/brennan-center-for-justice-policing-race-technology/
LOCATION:NYU School of Law\, New York\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T140000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
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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:20191204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
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:20191204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
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:20191205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T171500
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191202T200526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T213335Z
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SUMMARY:Media-Technology Nexus: Chinese Culture and Society | Boston College Events
DESCRIPTION:“China is a society of Netizens. National strategic plans have delivered advanced technology and new media applications to tens of millions of Chinese citizens. \nThis conference explores developments in cinema\, television\, social media and technology flowing on China’s communication infrastructure. Cultural and social challenges abound!”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/media-technology-nexus-chinese-culture-and-society-boston-college-events/
LOCATION:Boston College\, Boston\, NY\, 02467\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20190924T183129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T145827Z
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SUMMARY:Tech For Good Summit
DESCRIPTION:“The Tech for Good Summit 2019 will feature speakers who are using technology to make our world a better place\, celebrating how tech is being used to make positive social change. Digital technology has the potential to address some of our biggest social challenges – we hear from those leading those initiatives\, how they are doing it\, why they are doing it and the impact it is having. As technologists we should focus on the greater good and all collaborate to build a better world for existing communities and our future selves.” \n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/tech-for-good-summit/
LOCATION:London\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T150000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191119T150303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191122T172942Z
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SUMMARY:CJR and the Tow Center Present Disinfo 2020: Prepping the Press
DESCRIPTION:“Next year’s presidential election will challenge journalists\, technology platforms\, and researchers with an unprecedented wave of disinformation. Is the press prepared? What is the role of foreign intervention in the new wave of disinformation? Are the measures platforms and newsrooms are taking adequate? What is current research telling us about the threats journalists and the electorate face in 2020? \nJoin CJR and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism for a conference featuring some of the top political and media thinkers with US and international expertise\, as we identify the threats posed by disinformation and propose a plan for defending the ballot box.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cjr-and-the-tow-center-present-disinfo-2020-prepping-the-press/
LOCATION:Columbia School of Journalism\, New York City\, NY\, 1120
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191225
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191203T160805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T211352Z
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SUMMARY:Bobcatsss 2020
DESCRIPTION:“BOBCATSSS is an international annual symposium which addresses hot topics for librarians and information professionals in a fast-changing environment. It is created by and for students\, teachers\, researchers and professionals in the information field. BOBCATSSS is held under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research). It is a tradition which has been passed on from one European country to another since 1993\, providing a rich professional conference and working seminar program\, accompanied by numerous opportunities for networking\, personal exchanges\, discussions\, and learning.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/bobcatsss-2020/
LOCATION:Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée\, Marne-la-Vallée\, France
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T190000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191209T161012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T154958Z
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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;VALUE=DATE:20200203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200208
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191203T160618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T161510Z
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SUMMARY:13th ACM International WSDM Conference
DESCRIPTION:“WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. The 13th ACM International WSDM Conference will take place in Houston\, Texas from February 3-7\, 2020.WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes invited talks\, as well as refereed full papers. WSDM publishes original\, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web\, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining\, algorithm design and analysis\, economic implications\, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance.Original papers emphasizing novel algorithmic approaches are particularly encouraged. Application-oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research are welcome. Visionary papers on new and emerging topics are also welcome…”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/13th-acm-international-wsdm-conference/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Houston\, Houston\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191202T215904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191203T215828Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200209
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191211T160234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T205850Z
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SUMMARY:Third AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence\, Ethics\, and Society
DESCRIPTION:“As AI (and associated AI-hype) grows more pervasive in our lives\, its impact on society is ever more significant\, raising ethical concerns and challenges regarding issues such as privacy\, safety and security\, surveillance\, inequality\, data handling and bias\, personal agency\, power relations\, effective modes of regulation\, accountability\, sanctions\, and workforce displacement. Only a multi-disciplinary effort can find the best ways to address these concerns\, including experts from various disciplines\, such as ethics\, philosophy\, economics\, sociology\, psychology\, law\, history\, politics\, interaction design\, informatics\, social studies of science and technology\, communication and media studies\, and political science\, as well as those with lived experience in relation to the impacts of AI systems. In order to address these issues in a scientific context\, AAAI and ACM joined forces in 2018 to start the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI\, Ethics\, and Society. \nThe third edition of this conference will be co-located with AAAI-20 on February 7-8\, 2020 at the Hilton New York Midtown\, New York\, USA. The program of the conference will include peer-reviewed paper presentations\, invited talks\, panels\, and working sessions.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/third-aaai-acm-conference-on-artificial-intelligence-ethics-and-society/
LOCATION:New York Hilton Midtown Hotel\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T133000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191202T215852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T163137Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200223
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20200113T203311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T215019Z
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SUMMARY:MisinfoCon 7.0
DESCRIPTION:“We are very excited to announce registration is open for our next MisinfoCon event\, MisinfoCon@NASEM\, in Washington\, DC\, on February 22nd\, 2020. \nAfter several successful collaborations with First Draft News\, IREX (The International Research & Exchanges Board) and the Mozilla Foundation in Ukraine\, the US and the UK\, we’re bringing MisinfoCon back to DC for a collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering and Medicine or NASEM. \nNASEM is an ensemble of nonprofit institutions tasked with providing independent\, objective analysis and advice to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science\, technology\, and medicine. \nWe’re excited to partner with NASEM to bring focus to misinformation that is pervading health and science information\, media and data….”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinfocon-7-0/
LOCATION:National Academy of Sciences\, Washington D.C\, D.C\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200229
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191203T160648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T163207Z
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SUMMARY:RSA Conference
DESCRIPTION:“What is the most powerful tool to prevent cyberattacks? It’s you. Your ideas\, your creativity and your knowledge play a huge role in protecting the digital world. That’s why the theme of RSA Conference 2020 is Human Element. \nRSA Conference 2020 is here to support you in your mission—by bringing you together with thousands of your peers\, by offering hundreds of opportunities to learn from the industry’s most respected experts\, and by exposing you to the latest\, most disruptive thinking and cutting-edge solutions.\n\nAttending RSA Conference 2020 will charge your batteries and arm you with the intelligence\, insights and connections you need to prepare you for what’s ahead.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/rsa-conference/
LOCATION:Moscone Center\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20191202T215840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191203T214555Z
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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:20200302T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200303T000000
DTSTAMP:20260928T180843
CREATED:20200302T181542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200302T181844Z
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SUMMARY:Media Ecosystems Conference — Media Ecosystems Analysis Group
DESCRIPTION:2nd Exploring Media Ecosystems Conference\nMarch 2nd & 3rd\, 2020\nSamberg Conference Center at MIT\nCambridge\, Massachusetts\nAbout\nThere is a growing body of work that study digitally mediated communication\, but we need to acknowledge that no single point of view\, no single platform\, tool or method\, can account for the complexity of communication in the 21st century. Our approach is to consider the networked public sphere in terms of ecosystems\, with different elements dynamically affecting others. \nFor the second time\, this convening will bring together academics\, researchers\, practitioners\, journalists\, and funders interested in understanding the current media landscape. While the scope of the conference is necessarily broad\, this second edition will pay special attention to media ecosystems surrounding global health issues and the origin and spread of mis/disinformation. Attendees will collaborate on identifying new directions for research in this area and applications of innovative methodology to cross-platform research. \nTo learn more about this conference series\, you can explore the first edition of this conference and watch videos of the presentations. \nLocation\nThe conference will take place at the Samberg Conference Center at MIT in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. The Samberg Conference Center is located on the sixth and seventh floors of the Chang Building (E52). Street address is 50 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts 02142. Please note the conference center does not have parking. \nAgenda\nPlease download the detailed agenda here for more information on the conference offerings. \nMonday\, March 2nd \nRegistration opens at 8:30 am. \n\n\n9:00 . Exploring Media Ecosystems – Ethan Zuckerman (MIT) \n\n\n9:30 . Media Ecosystems Explorations\nThe structure of the French media ecosystem and the Yellow vest movement – Jean-Philippe Cointet (Sciences Po)\nExploring Media Ecosystems Through Partisan Media Attention: Lessons Learned from Two Elections in the European Laboratory of Social Media Populisms – Fabio Giglietto (Universita di Urbino Carlo Bo)\nComputational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information –  Jeremy Blackburn\, Gianluca Stringhini (iDrama Lab) \n\n\nCoffee Break (11 – 11:30 am) \n\n\n11:30 . Disinformation Around the World\nSocial Media Manipulation: Algorithms\, Bots\, and Computational Propaganda – Samantha Bradshaw (Oxford Internet Institute)\nHow to design policies to address disinformation – a European perspective – Lutz Guellner (European External Action Service ) \n\n\nLunch Break (12:30 – 1:30 pm) \n\n\n1:30 . Disinformation Across Platforms\nMisinformation on WhatsApp – Kiran Garimella (MIT)\nTwitter and MENA Region  – Abraham Alexei (Citizen Lab\, University of Toronto)\nKauwaKaate Fact Checking Platform – Kameswari Chebrolu (ITT Mumbai)\nDisinformation on Greta Thunberg – Emily Ndulue (MIT Media Lab)\, Aashka Dave (MIT Media Lab)\nThe securitization of “fake news” in Malaysia and beyond  – Gabrielle Lim (Shorenstein Center\, Harvard University) \n\n\nCoffee Break (3:30 – 4 pm) \n\n\n4:00 . Reducing the Spread of Disinformation on Social Media Using an Accuracy Nudge – David Rand (MIT) \n\n\n4:30 . Cautionary Notes on Disinformation – Yochai Benkler (Harvard University) \n\n\nReception begins at 5:30.  \nTuesday\, March 3rd \n\n\n9:00 . Keynote – Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan) \n\n\n9:45 . Approaches to Critical Internet Studies  – Joan Donovan (Shorenstein Center\, Harvard University)\, Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)\, Leslie K Jones (Rutgers University) \, T.L. Taylor (MIT) \n\n\nCoffee Break (10:45 – 11:15 am) \n\n\n11:15 . Health-Related Mis/Disinformation\nThe Polarization of Disinformation Interventions: How Racist Speech and Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Evade Fact-Checkers and Platforms in the Philippines – Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts Amherst)\nFentanyl Panic Goes Viral: The Spread of Misinformation about Overdose Risk from Casual Contact with Fentanyl in Mainstream and Social Media – Sunyou Kang (University of Southern California)\nForward this to 10 People: The Epidemic of Health Misinformation in Nigeria – Ifeanyi M. Nsofor (Nigeria Health Watch) \n\n\nLunch Break (12:30 – 1:30 pm) \n\n\n1:30 . Exploring the Dynamics of Health Disinformation\nDisinformation & Public Health: The Influential Role of Anti-Vaccine Narratives in the Digital Public Sphere  – Jose Miguel Cansado (Alto Data Analytics)\nThe social diffusion of risk information: A psychological perspective – Helge Giese (Konstanz University)\nCorrecting Health Misinformation on Social Media – Emily Vraga (University of Minnesota)\nTitle forthcoming – Rosa Sicilia (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) \n\n\nCoffee Break (3 – 3:30 pm) \nConference ends at 4:30.  \nRegistration\nYou may register online using this form. There is no fee to attend this conference. This event is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. \nContact\nYou may email the organizers with questions at this time. \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/media-ecosystems-conference-media-ecosystems-analysis-group/
LOCATION:Cambridge\, Mass.\, Cambridge\, Mass
CATEGORIES:Conference
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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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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: Young Mie Kim
DESCRIPTION:“Please join us for a talk by Young Mie Kim\, Professor\, School of Journalism and Mass Communication\, at University of Wisconsin-Madison. \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: \nYoung Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. \nKim’s research concerns media and politics in the age of data-driven digital media\, specifically the role digital media play in political communication among political leaders\, non-party groups (issue advocacy groups)\, and citizens. \nKim’s recent research project\, Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis)\, empirically investigates the sponsors/sources\, content\, and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms with a user-based\, real-time\, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers the algorithms of political campaigns. The project uncovers the “behind-the-scenes” operations of digital political campaigns\, i.e.\, microtargeting practices (individual-level voter identification\, targeting\, and message placement and customization strategies).”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-speaker-series-young-mie-kim/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Conspiracies Conference: U of Miami
DESCRIPTION:“This conference intendeds to bring together scholars studying conspiracy theories\, fake news\, and misinformation from across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. \nThe goals of the conference are (1) to gain a comparative perspective in the study of conspiracy theories\, fake news\, and misinformation by bringing together researchers from across continents and from across disciplinary boundaries\, and (2) to formulate solutions to the current problems of conspiracy theories\, fake news\, and misinformation. \nConspiracy theories are not confined to parlor games about who really shot Kennedy or who probed whom near Roswell\, New Mexico. Conspiracy theorizing (or what Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style) is an enduring part of politics. While often caricatured as a fringe demographic composed of middle-aged white male Internet enthusiasts\, polls tell us a different story. Conspiracy theories permeate all parts of society and cut across gender\, age\, race\, income\, political affiliation\, educational level and occupational status. Conspiracy theories are ubiquitous\, absorbing\, and substantial; they reveal the darkest recesses of a nation’s psyche. They have also been given new life due to the prevalence of fake news\, state sponsored disinformation campaigns\, and elite-driven misinformation. \nThere are persuasive reasons to study conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories have ushered in revolutions\, undercut the ability of governments to lead\, perverted democracy\, and provoked witch-hunts. Current evidence suggests that conspiracy thinking can decrease participation and voter turnout\, but also add fire to political polarization and populist movements. \nThere is a debate to be had regarding the benefits or harms of conspiracy theories. On one hand\, their negative consequences are varied and many. Imagine a world without conspiracy theories targeting religious and ethnic minorities or immigrants. Or\, a world where conspiracy theories do not take priority over scientific and medical consensuses. Whether the issue is climate change\, vaccination rates\, violence\, fake news\, or international cooperation\, solving many of the world’s major challenges involve addressing conspiracy theories. On the other hand\, conspiracies actually do happen\, powerful people do abuse their power from time to time\, and some level of public skepticism is a necessary part of a healthy democracy. \nFor such a common feature of the political landscape\, there is little consensus on why conspiratorial beliefs blossom\, or how to stop them in the age of social media. This is not for want of attention; authors from many disciplines – particularly in the last ten years – have addressed the phenomenon. But despite the broad and growing interest\, scholars have yet to adequately integrate findings from disparate disciplines into coherent theoretical frameworks\, or to propose meaningful policy solutions. The problem lies in a lack of comparative cross-cultural research and a dearth of interdisciplinary work. \nThis conference intends to bridge the gap between the great works currently being undertaken across disciplines. It also seeks to bring together researchers studying conspiracy theorizing across the globe. We intend to build broad interdisciplinary networks\, share disparate findings\, and move the study forward.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/conspiracies-conference-u-of-miami/
LOCATION:University of Miami\, Miami\, FL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Computation + Journalism Symposium 2020
DESCRIPTION:“We invite the submission of contributions exploring the interface between data and computer science and journalism in three categories: research\, practice\, and technology. For the 2020 Symposium\, we make a special call for papers that involve data visualization\, with an emphasis on the communication of uncertainty. A special section of the conference and its program will be dedicated to submissions in this area. \nResearch. Academic research papers exploring a question of interest in journalism or data and computing sciences as it relates back to journalism and news information; \nPractice. Journalist-oriented talks focused on experiences or case studies in journalism including stories\, visualizations\, investigations\, or interactive experiences produced with\, by\, or about data and algorithms; \nTechnology. Descriptions of new computational and data-driven tools\, platforms\, applications\, and services that enable novels ways of finding\, producing\, interacting with\, or distributing news content…”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/computation-journalism-symposium-2020/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:The Power of Narrative: Telling True Stories in Turbulent Times.
DESCRIPTION:“The Power of Narrative Conference has convened in several places under several names since its founding at Boston University in 1998. Our mission remains constant as storytelling journalism goes digital: helping narrative journalists to strengthen their craft skills\, puzzle out the complex ethics of intimate journalism\, and impart the down-to-earth humanity that is the genre’s strength. Every year\, we quickly sell all our seats. The conference talks are stimulating\, sophisticated\, practical and relevant\, aimed at mid-career nonfiction storytellers in many media\, offered by terrific and varied practitioners. The vigorous Q & A sessions following each talk keep us on-target. And\, between sessions and at meal breaks we program in time to meet speakers and new colleagues and share ideas\, aspirations\, projects\, networks. In these turbulent times\, our candid\, informed\, independent journalism is crucial.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-power-of-narrative-telling-true-stories-in-turbulent-times/
LOCATION:Boston University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Information Ethics Roundtable 2020 "Scientific Misinformation in the Digital Era"
DESCRIPTION:“The Information Ethics Roundtable is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines\, including but not limited to\, philosophy\, computer and information science\, political science\, library science\, journalism\, and law to discuss ethical issues such as information privacy\, intellectual property\, access to information\, artificial intelligence\, and big data. \nScientific hoaxes (Feder 2017) and “quack” medicine (Kang and Pedersen 2017) are nothing new. But some are concerned that\, with the rise of the internet\, science is more seriously under threat from misinformation than ever before. In recent issues of the Journal of the American Heart Association and the Royal Society Open Science\, scientists are sounding the alarm\, arguing that our current digital environment is promoting the “wanton spread of medical misinformation” that is causing “significant harm” (Hill et al. 2019) and “undermining trust in science and the capacity of individuals and society to make evidence-informed choices\, including on life-or-death issues” (Hopf et al. 2019). The 2020 Information Ethics Roundtable invites submissions that offer analyses\, explanations\, and/or solutions to the problem of scientific misinformation and disinformation in the digital era. We seek submissions that approach these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives\, with a potential to inform discussions of information ethics.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/information-ethics-roundtable-2020-scientific-misinformation-in-the-digital-era-the-ethics-institute/
LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Information Ethics Roundtable 2020 "Scientific Misinformation in the Digital Era" | The Ethics Institute
DESCRIPTION:“The Information Ethics Roundtable is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines\, including but not limited to\, philosophy\, computer and information science\, political science\, library science\, journalism\, and law to discuss ethical issues such as information privacy\, intellectual property\, access to information\, artificial intelligence\, and big data. \n\n\nScientific hoaxes (Feder 2017) and “quack” medicine (Kang and Pedersen 2017) are nothing new. But some are concerned that\, with the rise of the internet\, science is more seriously under threat from misinformation than ever before. In recent issues of the Journal of the American Heart Association and the Royal Society Open Science\, scientists are sounding the alarm\, arguing that our current digital environment is promoting the “wanton spread of medical misinformation” that is causing “significant harm” (Hill et al. 2019) and “undermining trust in science and the capacity of individuals and society to make evidence-informed choices\, including on life-or-death issues” (Hopf et al. 2019). The 2020 Information Ethics Roundtable invites submissions that offer analyses\, explanations\, and/or solutions to the problem of scientific misinformation and disinformation in the digital era. We seek submissions that approach these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives\, with a potential to inform discussions of information ethics.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/information-ethics-roundtable-2020-scientific-misinformation-in-the-digital-era-the-ethics-institute-2/
LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: What is “Zoom Bombing?” Media Manipulation and Sociotechnical Vulnerabilities
DESCRIPTION:“The Technology and Social Change Research Team at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center will describe the phenomenon of “zoom bombing\,” the act of hijacking a virtual meeting\, and its consequences. This is not a Zoom training\, it will just be an overview of security concerns surrounding Zoom and research relating to the manipulation of networked communication systems. \nWhile many of us did not expect to spend the Spring cloistered at home in virtual meetings\, our rapid adoption of Zoom has exposed some serious design flaws\, raising the concern of the FBI. While we are not cyber security experts\, we see “zoom bombing” as a sociotechnical vulnerability which occurs when the default settings of the technology are leveraged by intruders to disrupt communication\, sometimes just for fun\, but also for more targeted reasons. We will describe how “zoom bombing” occurs and offer some tips and field questions based on our research of the manipulation of networked communication systems. \nRegistration for this event is required\, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants the day before the event. Register here.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/webinar-what-is-zoom-bombing-media-manipulation-and-sociotechnical-vulnerabilities/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T160000
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SUMMARY:WEBCAST: Disinformation Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:“As the coronavirus has spread globally\, so has disinformation and censorship by authoritarian governments. Both Russia and China have attempted to spread false information about the genesis of the virus and China has clamped down internally on information surrounding the pandemic\, silencing both domestic reporters and whistleblowers. Yet even democracies are not immune: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been condemned by social media sites and members of his own government for spreading disinformation on social distancing measures recommended by public health authorities. \nSTIP Disinformation Fellow Nina Jankowicz\, Kissinger Institute Associate Rui Zhong\, and Brazil Institute Senior Associate Anya Prusa will discuss disinformation surrounding the coronavirus and the U.S. response.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/webcast-disinformation-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T133000
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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: Natalie Jomini Stroud
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n“Please join us for a talk by Natalie Jomini Stroud\, Professor\, Department of Communication Studies and School of Journalism\, University of Texas\, Austin. \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:\nNatalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D.\, Annenberg School for Communication\, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism\, as well as the founding and current Director of the Center for Media Engagement in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. The Center for Media Engagement examines commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways of improving media. Stroud’s research has received numerous national and international awards\, including the International Communication Association (ICA)’s prestigious Outstanding Book Award in 2012 for her book Niche News: The Politics of News Choice\, the inaugural Public Engagement Award from the Journalism Studies Division of the ICA in 2019\, and the 2016 Bill Eadie Distinguished Award for a Scholarly Article and 2011 Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association. Stroud serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals and the advisory boards of SciLine\, a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, and the Social Science Research Council’s Media & Democracy Initiative. Her research has appeared in Journal of Communication\, Journalism\, Political Communication\, Public Opinion Quarterly\, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication\, and New Media & Society. Stroud twice received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the Communication Studies Graduate Community. \nIn addition to her faculty appointment in Communication\, Dr. Stroud is the founding and current Director of the Center for Media Engagement in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin.” \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-natalie-jomini-stroud/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
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