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Data & Society"Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online" delves into how various internet subcultures leverage both the techniques of participatory culture and the affordances of social media to spread their various beliefs. Read moreMay 2017 -
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Data & SocietySorbonne University, New York University’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and Data & Society Research Institute present “Post-Truth and New Realities: Algorithms, Alternative Facts, and Digital Ethics," a t... Read moreApril 2017 -
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Pointsdanah boyd reflects on "fake news", problematic solutionism, and America's culture and information wars. Read on PointsMarch 2017 -
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BackchannelD&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on BackchannelMarch 2017 -
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Data & SocietyJennifer Pan presents How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument. The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,0... Read moreFebruary 2017 -
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Deutsche WelleD&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman writes about fake news and the bigger problem behind fake news. The truly disturbing truth is that fake news isn't the cause of our contemporary political dysfunction. More troublingly, we live ... Read on Deutsche WelleJanuary 2017 -
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PointsD&S founder danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking t... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsData & Society releases six new essays on the networked public sphere written by danah boyd, Robyn Caplan, Caroline Jack, and Alice Marwick. Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “How do you deal with a problem like ‘fake news?’” D&S researcher Robyn Caplan weighs in on the potential — and pitfalls — of efforts to curb Facebook’s fake news problem. Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer articulates emerging concerns and tensions coming to the fore as social media platforms overtake traditional media forms, becoming the main way that news and information of cultural, economic, social and political significance is being produced and disseminated. Read moreMay 2016