Palo Alto Talk: Truth and Trust in Times of Junk News

7 January 2018

Authors: Philip Howard

The past year has been dominated by stories of how junk news has influenced major political decisions on both sides of the Atlantic. Algorithms, automation and social media have ... Read More Palo Alto Talk: Truth and Trust in Times of Junk News

11 September 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

We are collaborating with our colleagues at the SNV and Reporters Without Borders on a ComProp Research Briefing in Berlin.  On October 20th we will present our latest evidence ... Read More Confusion Before the German Election: What Influence Does Fake News Have?

5 July 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

With social media strategy now an essential component of electioneering worldwide, election campaigns have developed increasingly sophisticated methods of maximizing the impact that the internet can have on the ... Read More Cyber Populism & Cyber Troops (Chatham House, London)

14 June 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Our team presented the latest research about the manipulation of public opinion over social media in London to launch our case study series on Computational Propaganda Worldwide. This briefing ... Read More Computational Propaganda Worldwide (London, Washington, Palo Alto)

14 June 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Our team will present the latest research about the manipulation of public opinion over social media. This briefing will help ground a group conversation about the prospects for improving ... Read More COMPROP Case Study Launch (June 19: London, UK)

14 June 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Our team presented the latest research about the manipulation of public opinion over social media. This briefing helped ground a group conversation about the prospects for improving deliberative democracy ... Read More COMPROP Briefing Tour (London, Washington DC, Palo Alto)

1 June 2017

Authors: Scott A. Hale

Political Turbulence author Helen Margetts spoke at the “Society Through the Lens of the Digital” conference organised by The Volkswagen Foundation at the end of May 2017. The conference ... Read More How Social Media Turn Political Mobilization Upside Down

30 November 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts was a keynote at the 3rd annual Computational Social Science Winter Symposium in Cologne, Germany. Details of her talk are available on the conference website. The Computational ... Read More Computational Social Science Winter Symposium

27 October 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Authors Helen Margetts and Peter John visited the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) on 27 October 2016 to talk about the unpredictability of ... Read More Podcast: Listen to Helen and Peter talk about Political Turbulence

10 September 2016

Authors: Laura Molloy

As my first year of work on this OII–Ruskin–DACS doctoral project comes to a close, and I prepare for the second year of activity, I wanted to share a ... Read More Project update: end of 1st year

6 September 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Author Scott A. Hale presented research from Political Turbulence as the keynote of the 15th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and 8th Electronic Participation (ePart) Conference 2016. Note: This post ... Read More Political Turbulence at eGoverment-eParticipation

9 June 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Peter John will speak about Political Turbulence as part of an upcoming seminar entitled Advancing Good Governance in International Development held at Rhodes House, University of Oxford, on 9 ... Read More Advancing Good Governance in International Development

3 June 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Political Turbulence co-author Peter John will keynote at a research workshop co-organized by King’s College London, City University London, and the University of Swansea on 3 June 2016. The ... Read More Peter John speaking at ‘I Will if You Will, Too’: Conditional Commitment in Collective Action

27 May 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Author Helen Margetts discussed Political Turbulence at the 2016 Hay Festival. As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media such as Twitter and Facebook, they ... Read More Hay Festival 2016

3 May 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts will speak about the research behind Political Turbulence in conversation with Ethan Zuckerman at MIT on 3 May 2016. Further details are available at the event webpage ... Read More Helen Margetts in Conversation with Ethan Zuckerman

2 May 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts will speak about Political Turbulence at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University on 2 May 2016. Full details are available on CRCS’s ... Read More Talk at Harvard University

26 April 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts will speak about Political Turbulence on 26 April 2016 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge. The talk, entitled ... Read More Talk at CRASSH, University of Cambridge

19 April 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts will speak about Political Turbulence in her keynote at the 2016 ACM Conference on Web Science in Hannover, Germany. The keynote is entitled “Understanding Political Turbulence: The ... Read More Keynote at ACM Web Science Conference

10 April 2016

Authors: Robert Gorwa

This is the first Workshop for the COMPROP project, and it will be organized as a pre-conference to the 2016 International Communication Association meetings in Fukuoka, Japan, on June ... Read More Algorithms, Automation and Politics (Fukuoka, Japan)