In this session we will discuss current research in the field, the role that journalists play in the amplification of misinformation, the evolution of tactics of media manipulators, and what open ques...
Joan Donovan
Joan Donovan is the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center. She was until December 2018 at Data and Society as the project lead on media manipulation.
After completing her PhD in Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, where she researched white supremacists’ use of DNA ancestry tests, social movements, and technology. For several years, Joan has conducted action research with different networked social movements in order to map and improve the communication infrastructures built by protesters. In her role as a participant, she identifies information bottlenecks, decodes algorithmic behavior, and connects organizations with other like-minded networks.
Events IJF 2020
In this workshop, journalists will learn how to detect, document, and debunk media manipulation and disinformation campaigns using the methods of investigative ethnography. Participants will analyze a...
Deepfakes are expected to come broadly online in 2020, ushering in an era of confusion or worse – the complete collapse of trust in what we see and hear. What do news operation need to know? And how...
The ethical and social impact of technology, and the role of journalists and media in it. The session will consider what the social impacts and ethical implications are of new technologies such as ar...
Is quality information like quality nutrition? Can we map the building blocks of useful information online without further censorship? Is building a nutrition label for credible content a feasible con...
Countries across the world are dealing with an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees, with a record 258 million people moving to new countries in 2017. In most of these countries, citizens a...
