Tag: Presentations & Talks
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Palo Alto Talk: Truth and Trust in Times of Junk News
7 January 2018
Author: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 ...
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10 Things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)
12 December 2017
Author:Project PI Phil Howard spoke at an event hosted by the University’s Social Science Division to highlight projects across the university receiving ERC funding. The talk has been made ...
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European Commission Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News
18 November 2017
Author:Lisa-Maria Neudert represented the project on a panel at the European Commission’s recent Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News, part of a large-scale consultation process on fake news currently being organized by ...
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Caught in the propaganda crossfire? Bots on social media.
25 May 2017
Author:ComProp
Lisa-Maria Neudert gave a talk at re:publica 2017 in Berlin. Computational propaganda – the use of information technologies for political manipulation – is on the rise. Social bots are ...
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Politics, Propaganda, and Bots–The Changing Nature of Cyber Warfare
19 May 2016
Author:Sam Woolley was a member of a panel at the News Impact Summit on the theme, “Trolls, Corruption, Falsehood: Reporting ‘Truth’ in the Digital Age”. The event was held on ...
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Prezi: Campaign Bots & The Law
2 April 2016
Author:Here is an interactive Prezi on our recent paper “Campaign Bots & The Law”, authored by Ryan Calo, Lisa Manheim, Sam Woolley and Phil Howard. It was presented at ...
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Presentations at SXSW 2016
1 April 2016
Author:Project Researchers Samuel Woolley and Phil Howard presented twice at SXSW this year. There was a “Book Reading” of Pax Technica: The “internet of things” is the expanding network of ...
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Sam Woolley Speaks at Princeton
1 April 2016
Author:The project’s Sam Woolley presented some of the project’s research findings at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology and Policy. The video is available here.
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Prezi: Confronting Political Bot Attacks – Guidelines for Civil Society Leaders
29 January 2016
Author:Governments, militaries, and lone attackers increasingly use bots to attack civil society groups. This Prezi investigates how such groups should prepare and respond.
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Prezi: Creating Lasting Relationships Among Computer and Social Scientists
29 January 2016
Author:Here is an interactive Prezi about how the special collaborations within our project are going. We are tackling some important research questions, but doing so as a parity-based team ...
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Prezi: About the Project
9 January 2016
Author:Here is an interactive Prezi describing the goals, work plan and initial findings of the Computational Propaganda Research Project.
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Prezi: Bots, Botnets and Political Culture
2 June 2015
Author:This short Prezi from 2015 describes what bots are, and what impact they have on political campaigning.
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Project Presentation at CSCW ’15
20 March 2015
Author:Norah Abokhodair, David McDonald, and Daisy Yoo presented and published work entitled “Dissecting a Social Botnet: Growth, Content and Influence on Twitter” at CSCW ’15 in Vancouver, BC. The ...
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