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Social media and the right (PRINCES OF DARKNESS (Alexander Nix, Cambridge…
Social media and the right
ISSUES
Micro-targeting based on Big Data and psychometric profiles
Propaganda networks and fake news
Bot armies - echo chamber plus suppression of debate
Scripts and trackers being able to follow people around the web
CRITICS & RESEARCHERS
JOURNALISTS
United Kingdom
Carole Cadwalladr, Guardian/Observer
Professor John Naughton, Observer [also in academics below]
United States
Cathy O'Neil -
https://mathbabe.org/
and
Weapons of Math Destruction
Paul-Olivier Dehaye, www.medium.com
Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath, Scout,
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
Sasha Issenberg, Bloomberg,
Cruz-Connected Data Miner Aims to Get Inside U.S. Voters' Heads
see:
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
Jonathan Albright [in academics below] also on medium.com, see re AI and youtube:
https://medium.com/@d1gi/faketube-ai-generated-news-on-youtube-233ad46849f9#.crk8vwazb
ACADEMICS
United States
Nikki Usher, Assistant Prof, George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs
Frank Pasquale, Prof of Law, University of Maryland
Yale Law School - Information Society Project
Jonathan Albright, Assistant Prof of Communications, Elon University North Carolina,
Dr Robert Epstein, research psychologist, American Institute for Behavioural Research & Technology (AIBRT)
Information Law Institute, New York University - conference on algorithmic accountability
Nick Diakopoulos, Assistant Prof, University of Maryland, College Park College of Journalism - algorithmic accountability
United Kingdom
Dr Martin Moore, King's College London - Director, Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power
Phil Howard and Sam Woolley, Computational Propaganda Research Project/Oxford Internet Institute, www.politicalbots.org
Charlie Beckett, Professor, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications
Dr. Damian Tambini, Associate Prof, London School of Economics, Director of the Media Policy Project
John Naughton, Professor, University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
Dr Julia Powles, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law and Computer Laboratory
John Rust, Professor, University of Cambridge, Director, Psychometrics Centre (where Kosinski did his research)
Dr Emma Briant, Sheffield Uni (but currently at George Washington) - focused on propaganda in particular
Journals
New Media & Society
CIVIL SOCIETY/NGOs
United States
Rebecca MacKinnon, Ranking Digital Rights project, New America Foundation
Julia Angwin - ProPublica [should perhaps be in journalist category]
Lee Rainie (and others) Pew Research Center - Internet, Science and Tech
PRINCES OF DARKNESS
Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica
Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group
Stephen Bannon
Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, see:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/no-one-knows-what-the-powerful-mercers-really-want/514529/
Breitbart
Dr Aleksandr Spectre/Kogan
Government Accountability Institute
Behavioural Dynamics Institute
GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
United States
National Science Foundation - Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society
White House: AI Now - The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term, July 2016 conference
CORPORATE INITIATIVES
[Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM] Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society
Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher Microsoft Research New York City
Google Jigsaw
PHILANTHROPY
Leverhulme Trust - funding Conspiracy & Democracy project at Cambridge University - John Naughton and others
LEFT-ORIENTED DATA FIRMS
United States
BlueLabs.com
Elan Kriegel - Clinton director of analytics (with team of 60 mathematicians, see:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-data-campaign-elan-kriegel-214215
Dan Wagner, Civis Analytics