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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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