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SUMMARY:Hacking Online Virality | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:As social media become major channels for the diffusion of news and information\, it becomes critical to understand how the complex interplay between cognitive\, social\, and algorithmic biases triggered by our reliance on online social networks makes us vulnerable to manipulation and disinformation. This talk overviews ongoing network analytics\, modeling\, and machine learning efforts to study the viral spread of misinformation and to develop tools for countering the online manipulation of opinions. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/hacking-online-virality-shorenstein-center/
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SUMMARY:Eric Freedman\, “Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans” | MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\nVideo game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided a common architecture for digital content creation across what were once distinct media verticals—film\, television\, video games and other immersive and interactive media forms that can leverage real-time 3D visualization. Game engines are the building blocks for efficient real-time visualization\, and they signal quite forcefully the colonizing influence of programming. Video game engines are powering our visual futures\, and engine developers that include Unity Technologies and Epic Games are rapidly iterating their products to tackle new markets\, where data and visuality continue to converge. This analysis\, which draws from software studies and studies of visual culture\, examines a tool that is fairly new to the Epic Games arsenal—the in-development MetaHuman Creator that is part of Epic’s proprietary Unreal Engine. MetaHuman creation is a fluid of process\, and the speedy transformation of character rigs and other non-binary attributes highlights the potential queerness or openness of data. Yet the ongoing push toward (hyper)realism in commercial media has birthed a visual economy which is supported by an industrial apparatus that privileges mastery over the tools of production\, and where bodies and politics are often cleaved in the design process. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/eric-freedman-non-binary-binaries-and-unreal-metahumans-mit-graduate-program-in-comparative-media-studies/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Knight Media Forum 2022  | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:On Feb. 22-24\, join us virtually for the 15th Annual Knight Media Forum (KMF)\, where we will examine current trends impacting our democracy. Top thought leaders in philanthropy\, journalism\, education\, tech and policy will share their insights and answer your questions about the hot topics across communities and the nation. \n\nKMF is the premiere event for leaders across these sectors to put forward new ideas and exchange diverse perspectives. At year 15 and looking forward\, Knight Media Forum provides a respected platform to discuss relevant trends affecting American society now and in the future. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/knight-media-forum-2022-knight-foundation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T130000
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SUMMARY:Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk\, James Yékú will track the implications of this ban in the context of what he has called cultural netizenship\, the organizing rubric for visual articulations of internet citizenship that often manifests through the performance of popular culture in an ontologically visual social web. Unlike the normative signals of netizenship as a performance of citizenship and participatory politics online\, cultural netizenship evokes the deployment of visual and popular culture on social media to push back against the boundaries of hegemonic culture. Based on social media-enabled cultural productions that underpin meme culture as the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and\, especially\, political commentary on digital media\, cultural netizenship as a reiteration of the generative materialism of African popular arts\, Yékú will argue\, is one notable and subversive practice in a complex system of relations between an analog state in Nigeria and digital subjects. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nigerias-twitter-ban-and-the-logic-of-cultural-netizenship-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:CARGC Colloquium: James Yékú\, University of Kansas | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:“Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship” \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT ON ZOOM \nAbout the Talk\nIts ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk\, James Yékú will track the implications of this ban in the context of what he has called cultural netizenship\, the organizing rubric for visual articulations of internet citizenship that often manifests through the performance of popular culture in an ontologically visual social web. Unlike the normative signals of netizenship as a performance of citizenship and participatory politics online\, cultural netizenship evokes the deployment of visual and popular culture on social media to push back against the boundaries of hegemonic culture. Based on social media-enabled cultural productions that underpin meme culture as the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and\, especially\, political commentary on digital media\, cultural netizenship as a reiteration of the generative materialism of African popular arts\, Yékú will argue\, is one notable and subversive practice in a complex system of relations between an analog state in Nigeria and digital subjects. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cargc-colloquium-james-yeku-university-of-kansas-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Virtual Colloquium on Race\, Racism\, and American Media | Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute
DESCRIPTION:This event will explore historic and contemporary racial discrimination in all modalities of modern media. \nRegister Here \nGeorgetown University Racial Justice Institute \nThe University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One research institution and an EEO/AA institution \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/virtual-colloquium-on-race-racism-and-american-media-february-25-2022/
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SUMMARY:“I feel it in my gut”: Epistemic motivations\, political beliefs\, and misperceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 Election | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump favorability\, conservatism\, and Republicanism are associated with instinct-based epistemic values and a rejection of expertise and evidence. Results also indicate that these same epistemic motivations increase one’s likelihood of believing in misinformation in matters of both public and democratic health. Implications for democratic and public health will be discussed. \nDannagal G. Young (Ph.D. ’07) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content\, audience\, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over forty academic articles and book chapters on the content\, psychology\, appeal\, and effects of political information\, satire\, and misinformation.  Her book “Irony and Outrage” (Oxford University Press\, 2020) examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives.  Her current book project\, “Wrong: How Identity Fuels Misinformation and How to Fix It\,” is under development with JHU Press. \n[…]\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/i-feel-it-in-my-gut-epistemic-motivations-political-beliefs-and-misperceptions-of-covid-19-and-the-2020-election-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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SUMMARY:Elihu Katz Colloquium: Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. '07)\, University of Delaware | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:About the Talk\nThe extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump favorability\, conservatism\, and Republicanism are associated with instinct-based epistemic values and a rejection of expertise and evidence. Results also indicate that these same epistemic motivations increase one’s likelihood of believing in misinformation in matters of both public and democratic health. Implications for democratic and public health will be discussed. \nMembers of the Annenberg community can pick up boxed lunches in Suite 200 prior to the event on a first come\, first served basis. \nAbout the Speaker\nDannagal G. Young (Ph.D. ’07) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content\, audience\, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over forty academic articles and book chapters on the content\, psychology\, appeal\, and effects of political information\, satire\, and misinformation.  Her book “Irony and Outrage“ (Oxford University Press\, 2020) examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives.  Her current book project\, “Wrong: How Identity Fuels Misinformation and How to Fix It\,” is under development with JHU Press. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/elihu-katz-colloquium-dannagal-g-young-ph-d-07-university-of-delaware-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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