Abstract: This essay reflects on the lived experience of early internet culture to interrogate what has been lost in the transition to today’s platform-dominated online…
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Databites 100 Series: Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
Published on June 14, 2017
Episode Summary
Alice Marwick speaks about Data & Society’s recent report on Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online. Alice Marwick leads the Media Manipulation project at Data & Society, and will join the Communication department at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in the Fall.
Episode Notes
Alice Marwick speaks about Data & Society’s recent report on Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online. Alice Marwick leads the Media Manipulation project at Data & Society, and will join the Communication department at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in the Fall.
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