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Algorithms, Automation, and Misinformation

September 16, 2020

Automated devices permeate our lives, from our toasters to Siri. The promise has been that automation and algorithms will make our lives simpler, and help us find the things we want in an increasingly connected world. But we now realize that on social media platforms, algorithms and automation can be used to spread disinformation further…
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Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers | SpringerLink

September 14, 2020

While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they also facilitate basic influence and unfriending mechanisms that may lead to segregated and polarized clusters […]
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US Wildfire Misinformation Mirrors What Happened in Australia | Gizmodo

September 14, 2020

Climate-intensified wildfires that changed the lived reality of a large majority of Australians in horrific and unforgettable ways triggered an unprecedented immune response to deny reality and a chance at […]
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Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem | MIT Technology Review

September 9, 2020

The idea of algorithmic manipulation schemes brainwashing large swaths of the US electorate online is a nice way to explain the polarized nature of American public opinion. But experts say […]
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Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform | Cambridge University Press

September 3, 2020

Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This […]
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms | Elsevier

September 3, 2020

Online Social Networks and Media have revolutionized society, and are now a key part of how most people work, live, socialize, find information and entertain themselves. But whilst they have […]
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Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics

September 3, 2020

The NYU Center for Social Media and Politics studies the influence of social media on politics, and develops new and innovative ways to measure such influence. Postdocs work on projects […]
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Algorithmic Television in the Age of Large-scale Customization

September 2, 2020

One challenge that Television Studies faces today is how to respond to the rise of an industry increasingly organized by what Antoinette Rouvroy calls “data behavioralism.” The rise of streaming […]
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Threat Analyst – Trust & Safety | ByteDance

August 31, 2020

As a threat analyst/researcher on our Trust & Safety team you will work alongside multiple teams to bring and action on analysis of platform threats. You will work cross-functionally with […]
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Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field and Prospects for Reform | Stanford Cyber Policy Center

August 31, 2020

Please join Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics to discuss our recently released book on Social Media and Democracy: The State of […]
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