Trust and Truth in the Age of Deep Fakes | ThinkND
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty, and the community use guest speaker comments […]
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Socially Mediated Visibility in Socially and Politically Authoritarian Societies | Annenberg School for Communication
Increased visibility is arguably the most significant affordance of social media and a large body of scholarly work has sought to understand how individuals deal with the effects increased visibility […]
How the Political Communications Profession Helped Divide America | Annenberg School for Communication
Using examples of political advertising, including some of his own work in nearly 30 years of creating such content as a campaign consultant, Craig Snyder will explore the cumulative effects […]
Disinformation, China, and Beijing’s Broader Global Media Influence | ThinkND
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty, and the community use guest speaker comments […]
Chris Bail + Jonathan Haidt: Breaking the Social Media Prism | The Strand Book Store
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online–and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media In an era of increasing social isolation, […]
Countering disinformation: strategies, policies, research | SOMA Disinfobservatory
As our H2020 project is close to its end-date, we would like to invite you to the event ‘Countering disinformation: strategies, policies, research’, that we are organising online, on Wednesday […]
AI and Human Rights Forum | Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
From surveillance and misinformation to facial recognition and foreign influence, advances in Artificial Intelligence have been rapid, raising questions about potential and impact on the rights of people around the […]
Epistemic Motivations, Political Identity, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election | Shorenstein Center
Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, 2007) is a Professor of Communication and Political […]
Section 230: Protections Can Legal Revisions or Novel Technologies Limit Online Misinformation and Abuse: A Workshop (Day 1) | National Academies
This is the first day of a virtual workshop to identify key issues for consideration in the reexamination of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Section 230 provides Internet-based […]
Section 230 Protections: Can Legal Revisions or Novel Technologies Limit Online Misinformation and Abuse A Workshop | National Academies
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will convene a workshop to discuss whether protections provided to Internet-based technology companies and social media platforms under […]
What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony, Media, and Scholarship | Shorenstein Center
Panel Discussion: Media scholars and experts on how to combat the rise of hate and the disinformation that spreads it. How can we learn from lessons of the past to […]
Sociology Lecture Series: Ruha Benjamin, “Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society” | The New School
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous […]
Prototyping Feminist AI | Stanford University HAI
How can feminist methodologies and approaches be applied and be transformative when developing AI and ADM systems? How can AI innovation and social systems innovation be catalysed concomitantly to create […]
“News you don’t believe”: User perspectives on f*ke news and misinformation | Shorenstein Center
Users’ perspectives on what f*ke news and misinformation is and isn’t, who drives it, and where people say they see it are important for understanding the scale and scope of […]
Cybersecurity in 2021 and Beyond: The Aftermath of the SolarWinds Attack | Georgetown University
In December 2020, it was first reported that SolarWinds, a major US information technology firm, experienced a massive cyberattack which affected up to 18,000 clients, including numerous US government agencies […]