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TRUTHINESS IN DIGITAL MEDIA: A SYMPOSIUM THAT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND AND ADDRESS PROPAGANDA AND MISINFORMATION IN THE NEW MEDIA ECOSYSTEM

March 6-7, 2012 Berkman Center for Internet & Society and MIT Center for Civic Media

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/truthiness/

RESOURCES

Please add links to papers, articles, blogposts, and other items related to privacy and of interest to symposium participants to this page. Users need to create an account to edit this wiki -- click on the link in the top right corner of this page to obtain a username/password.

• Nick DeSantis. New media consortium names 10 top ‘metatrends’ shaping educational technology The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 3, 2012.
• Jared Keller. When campaigners manipulate social media The Atlantic, November 10, 2010.
• Kurt Kleiner. Bogus grass-roots politics on Twitter: Data-mining techniques reveal fake Twitter accounts that give the impression of a vast political movement Technology Review, November 2, 2010.
• Sarah Lai Stirland. Google is latest weapon vs. GOP Politico, October 18, 2010.

Patrick Meier, “Information Forensics: Five Case Studies on How to Verify Crowdsourced Information from Social Media,” iRevolution, November 29, 2011. http://irevolution.net/2011/11/29/information-forensics-five-case-studies

Patrick Meier, “Crowdsourcing vs Vladimir Putin,” iRevolution, December 4, 2011. http://iRevolution.net/2011/12/04/crowdsourcing-vs-putin

Panagiotis Metaxas, “Web spam, social propaganda and the evolution of search engine rankings,” Lecture Notes BIP, Springer-Verlag, 2010. http://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmetaxas/Metaxas-EvolutionSEs-LNBIP10.pdf

Panagiotis Metaxas and Eni Mustafaraj, “From obscurity to prominence in prominence in minutes: political speech and real-time search,” Web Science 2010 Conference, Raleigh, NC, April 2010. http://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmetaxas/Metaxas-Obscurity-to-prominence.pdf

Eni Mustafaraj, Samantha Finn, Carolyn Whitlock and Panagiotis Metaxas, “Vocal minority versus silent majority: discovering the opinions of the long tail,” IEEE SocialCom Conference, Boston, MA, October, 2011. http://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmetaxas/Silent-minority-Vocal-majority.pdf

Eni Mustafaraj and Panagiotis Metaxas, “Trails of trustiworthiness in real-time streams,” Design, Influence and Social Technologies, ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Seattle, WA, February, 2012. http://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmetaxas/TrustTrails.pdf

Electronic Privacy Information Center, “E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: Technology and Democracy 2.0 Report 2010,” October 2010. The report reviews the potential for abuse of Internet-based technology in the election context, and makes recommendations on steps that should be taken by Election Administrators, voters, and those involved in Election Protection efforts. E-Deceptive campaigns are internet-based attempts to misdirect targeted voters regarding the voting process, and include false statements about poll place hours, election dates, voter identification rules, or voter eligibility requirements. http://epic.org/privacy/voting/E_Deceptive_Report_10_2010.pdf

Geoffrey York, “How a U.S. agency cleaned up Rwanda’s genocide-stained image,” Globe and Mail, January 31, 2012. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-us-agency-cleaned-up-rwandas-genocide-stained-image/article2322005/page1/ Melanie Newman, “PR firm ‘attacked’ critics of Rwandan government,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, December 6, 2011. http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/12/06/pr-firm-attacked-critics-of-rwandan-government/

Truthy: Truthy is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online. We collect tweets from Twitter and analyze them. With our statistics, images, movies, and interactive data, you can explore these dynamic networks. http://truthy.indiana.edu/

“Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks,” Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research. The focus of this research project is understanding how information propagates through complex networks. Leveraging large-scale behavioral trace data from online social networking platforms we are able to analyze and model the spread of information, from political discourse to market trends, in unprecedented detail. http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/truthy

Yochai Benkler, “Seven Lessons from SOPA/PIPA/Megaupload and Four Proposals on Where We Go From Here,” TechPresident, January 25, 2012. http://techpresident.com/news/21680/seven-lessons-sopapipamegauplaod-and-four-proposals-where-we-go-here

Howard, P. N., Agarwal, S. D., & Hussain, M. M. (2011). When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks? Regime Responses to the Political Uses of Social Media. The Communication Review, Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent, 14(3), 216-232.

Howard, P. N., Agarwal, S. D., & Hussain, M. M. (2011). The Dictators’ Digital Dilemma (No. 13). Issues in Technology and Innovation (pp. 1-11). Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Howard, P. N., Duffy, A., Freelon, D., Hussain, M. M., Mari, W., & Mazaid, M. (2011). Opening Closed Regimes: What was the role of social media during the Arab Spring? National Science Foundation-funded Information Technology and Political Islam project (pp. 1-30). Seattle, WA: Center for Communication and Civic Engagement.

Howard, P. N., & Hussain, M. M. (2011). The Role of Digital Media. Journal of Democracy, The Upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia, 22(3), 35-48.

Howard, P. N., Hussain, M. M., Freelon, D., Mari, W., & Duffy, A. (2011). Digital Media and Contagious Democracy: Lessons from the Arab Spring. Dallas, TX: Bush Institute for Human Freedom.

Moy, P., & Hussain, M. M. (2011). Media Influences on Political Trust and Engagement. In R. Y. Shapiro & L. R. Jacobs (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media (pp. 220-235). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Nahon, K., Helmsley, J., Hussain, M. M., & Walker, S. (2011). Viral Political Information in the US Elections Metabase, 2008 [Data Set]. Seattle, WA: Information and Society Center.

Nahon, K., Hemsley, J., Walker, S., & Hussain, M. M. (2011). Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Power of Blogs in the Lifecycle of Viral Political Information. Policy & Internet, 3(1).

Pamela Meyer, “How to spot a lie,” CNN.com, November 14, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/13/opinion/meyer-lie-spotting/

Andrew Sullivan, “Wikipedia is not Truth,” The Daily Dish, February 20, 2012. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/wikipedia-is-not-truth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29

Timothy Messer-Kruse, “The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 12, 2012. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/

Fabrice Epelboin, “Did the French Govt. Ask Twitter to Suspend Satirical Accounts?,” Read Write Web, February 19, 2012. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_morning_after_french_president.php

FOOD FOR THOUGHT DINNERS

Food for Thought dinners are self-organized gatherings allow conference attendees to engage in informal, themed conversation with other conference participants, and would take place after the symposium reception ends, on the evening of March 6 (Tues). Attendance is limited to six people per dinner (including the organizer).

If you would like to propose / organize a food for thought dinner:

• Please add the proposal the one of the slots below, with your name and contact information
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If you would like to join one of the dinners:

• Add your name to one of the slots below by 3PM 3/6 (Tues)

Please note that attendees will pay their own dinner costs.

If you decide not to attend a dinner to which you are signed up, please delete yourself from the list. If you have any questions, please contact one of the Berkman staff members.

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