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SUMMARY:Dan Costanzo (NORC at the University of Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Researchers who conduct population surveys face escalating costs and declining response rates\, as they aim to collect data that is representative\, trustworthy\, and publishable. Sample recruitment is often prohibitively expensive to researchers\, and cheap convenience samples are fraught with representation and quality issues. NORC at the University of Chicago has built a survey panel called\nAmeriSpeak to help researchers navigate these choppy waters. AmeriSpeak is a probability (random) sample of US households recruited to take surveys for NORC. Dan Costanzo\, a Director of Business Development at NORC\, will talk about AmeriSpeak’s novel approach to sample recruitment\, which includes sending field interviewers located throughout the US to the homes of non-responders. The\nresult of NORC’s rigorous efforts is a panel that delivers higher response rates and a more representative sample of US adults than mail and phone recruitment efforts alone provide. AmeriSpeak is commercially available to academic\, government\, media\, and other researchers. Costanzo will also talk about the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)\, a federally funded program through\nNorthwestern University that enables academic researchers to use AmeriSpeak for free.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/dan-costanzo-norc-at-the-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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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/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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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/
LOCATION:Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
CATEGORIES:Department Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:CPG: Nikki Usher (USD)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How and why American journalism (accidentally) amplifies anti-democratic actors: Small town extremists\, media storms\, and a broken news industry \n  \nAbstract: Within a week\, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle. This newly-empowered politician\, Darren Bailey\, would go on to hijack the pro-business Republican party in Illinois toward extremism. Democratic backsliding emerges across all levels of politics\, but the threats posed by small town politicians to the rule of law have been overlooked. This research asks\, first what features of local political ecologies that might facilitate the rise of small town anti-democratic extremists? Second\, how does the political economy of the contemporary  news ecosystem–local\, regional\, national\, and partisan media–serve to amplify these bad actors? Ultimately\, this case study considers how small-town extremists are enabled by the structural\, cultural\, and normative dimensions of democratic life that they seek to undermine\, especially the difficulty the institutional news media faces in covering anti-democratic actors.
URL:https://comm.ucla.edu/event/cpg-nikki-usher-usd/
LOCATION:Comm Project Room – 2310 Rolfe
CATEGORIES:Communication and Politics Group
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