How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health

Speakers:
Dr Jonathan Bright, Professor Sinan Aral
Recorded:
25 November 2020
Duration:
00:54:44
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About this video

Drawing on two decades of his own research and business experience, MIT professor Sinan Aral goes under the hood of the biggest, most powerful social networks to tackle the critical question of just how much social media actually shapes our choices, for better or worse. Aral shows how the tech behind social media offers the same set of behaviour-influencing levers to both Russian hackers and brand marketers—to everyone who hopes to change the way we think and act—which is why its consequences affect everything from elections to business, dating to health. Sinan Aral is a scientist, entrepreneur and investor. He is the David Austin Professor of Management at MIT, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) and a founding partner at Manifest Capital. He is the author of The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health–and How We Must Adapt.

About the Speaker

Dr Jonathan Bright

Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow

Jonathan Bright is a political scientist specialising in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.
Professor Sinan Aral

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sinan Aral is a scientist, entrepreneur and investor. He is the David Austin Professor of Management at MIT, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) and a founding partner at Manifest Capital.

How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health

About this video

About the Speaker

Dr Jonathan Bright

Professor Sinan Aral

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