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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Emilio Ferrara (USC\, Communication & Computer Science)
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: AI & Social Manipulation \n  \nABSTRACT: In this talk\, I will overview my decadelong journey into understanding the implications of online platform manipulation. I’ll start from detecting malicious bots and other forms of manipulation including troll accounts\, coordinated campaigns\, and disinformation operations. The impact of my work will be corroborated with examples of findings enabled by our technology\, e.g.\, our unveiling of the “Russian bots” operation prior to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election\, which informed official Senate investigations and new regulations. I will then illustrate similar issues with the 2020 U.S. Election\, as well as COVID-related conspiracies and public health misinformation. I’ll conclude by discussing the ML tools we developed to model online mis/disinformation\, reveal the malicious adversaries behind the curtains\, and characterize their activity\, behavior\, and strategies\, suggesting how they are changing the way researchers and study online platforms in the era of automation and artificial intelligence.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-emilio-ferrera-usc-communication-computer-science/
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SUMMARY:Department Speaker Series: Dana Mastro (UCSB\, Communication)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Threat in the form of News: Examining the ways that news coverage of immigration constrains systemically marginalized groups\n \nAbstract: Although U.S. media portrayals of racial\, ethnic\, and other historically excluded identities vary based on the group\, platform\, and genre\, generally speaking these groups have tended to be both underrepresented and\, at times\, unfavorably depicted across the media landscape. The current talk addresses this issue with a particular focus on coverage of immigration in the news. Specifically\, the manner in which U.S. news characterizes immigration and immigrants will be addressed followed by a discussion of empirical research investigating how variations in the themes in this content affect opinions about\, feelings toward\, and behaviors regarding immigration and immigrants among both ‘dominant’ and traditionally marginalized groups.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/department-speaker-series-dana-mastro-ucsb-communication/
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