Tag: Presentations & Talks

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

12 December 2017

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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 ... Read More 10 Things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)

18 November 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

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 ... Read More European Commission Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News

25 May 2017

Authors: 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 ... Read More Caught in the propaganda crossfire? Bots on social media.

19 May 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

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 ... Read More Politics, Propaganda, and Bots–The Changing Nature of Cyber Warfare

2 April 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

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 ... Read More Prezi: Campaign Bots & The Law

1 April 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

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 ... Read More Presentations at SXSW 2016

1 April 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

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.     Note: This ... Read More Sam Woolley Speaks at Princeton

29 January 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Governments, militaries, and lone attackers increasingly use bots to attack civil society groups. This Prezi investigates how such groups should prepare and respond.     Note: This post was ... Read More Prezi: Confronting Political Bot Attacks – Guidelines for Civil Society Leaders

29 January 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

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 ... Read More Prezi: Creating Lasting Relationships Among Computer and Social Scientists

9 January 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Here is an interactive Prezi describing the goals, work plan and initial findings of the Computational Propaganda Research Project. Note: This post was originally published on the Political Bots research blog ... Read More Prezi: About the Project

2 June 2015

Authors: Philip Howard

This short Prezi from 2015 describes what bots are, and what impact they have on political campaigning. Note: This post was originally published on the Political Bots research blog ... Read More Prezi: Bots, Botnets and Political Culture

20 March 2015

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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 ... Read More Project Presentation at CSCW ’15