Data Privacy Deadly Serious Now, Says Cory Booker
When I first met Cory Booker at SXSW in 2012, he wanted to talk about the importance of politicians using then-emerging platforms to connect with a new generation of voters.
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Disinformation, Narrative Warfare In The Coming Midterms
Let’s start with something we can all agree on: Cambridge Analytica was bad. Very bad. Super bad. But if you were looking for a good-news ending to the story of
How Finland Is Fighting Misinformation — And Winning
While Russia’s brutal and crushing attacks on the Ukraine are front-page news today, it’s worth remembering that Russia’s world-dominating military incursions have a long and ruthless history. Consider the conflicts
Social Media Platforms Are Digital ‘Drug Dealers’
Uri Hasson is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton. The Hasson Lab (https://www.hassonlab.com/) studies the brain’s responses to natural real-life events. He has a Ph.D. in neurobiology and has been running experiments on how the brain receives and reacts to real-world inputs. He’s been studying how storytelling can influence and even direct behavior, using fMRI recordings to track brain activity. Hasson is not a futurist or a theorist — he’s a scientist, and his work is deeply rooted in research. So when he uses a word like addiction, he’s not using it in the colloquial term, he means addiction as a medical condition.
Social Media Platforms Are Digital ‘Drug Dealers’
The first time I spoke to Uri Hasson, I thought I’d misheard him. “They are drug dealers,” he said. We were speaking about social media platforms, and his statement was
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Social Media – Areas Of Concern
Quantifying Actionable Solutions Core to the CSM mission is research. But aim to go further. Certainly, we need to understand the impact of our current media ecosystem on our world.
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Misinformation – pervasive, potent, problematic
Defining termsJoan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, explains: Misinformation: Spreading false information (rumors, insults, and pranks). Disinformation: The creation and distribution of
