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Job Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Digital News | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
6 days ago
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated post-doctoral researcher as part of a larger project aimed at the…
How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation | Harvard Business Review
by Joan Donovan
6 days ago
Over the last four years, disinformation has become a global watchword. After Russian meddling on social networks during the 2016…
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure | Digital Journalism
by Kjerstin Thorson, Mel Medeiros, Kelley Cotter, Yingying Chen, Kourtnie Rodgers, Arram Bae, and Sevgi Baykaldi
December 16, 2020
Digital platforms are transforming practices of political information production and circulation in local communities. We develop the theoretical concept of…
We need independent platform oversight in 2021 | First Draft
by Madelyn Webb
December 10, 2020
Thanks to urging from stakeholders, social media platforms took visible steps to curb mis- and disinformation in 2020. Despite an…
“You can’t just give people more data and expect them to act differently” | MIT Technology Review
by Lindsay Muscato
December 9, 2020
Digital contact tracing apps first emerged early in the pandemic. They’d let you know if you’d been around anyone who…
Opportunity: Trust and Doubt in Public-Sector Data Infrastructures | Data & Society
by danah boyd & Janet Haven
December 8, 2020
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scholars who wish to grapple with the state of public-sector data…
Digital Technology, Social Media, and the 2020 Presidential Election | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
December 4, 2020
The 2020 election may be over, but the debate over the role of technology in the election has only just…
“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel | NULab at Northeastern University
November 30, 2020
Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin…
2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
November 30, 2020
The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2020 (IEEE BigData 2020) provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research…