IICD Seminar on social media

A kind invitation to talk about "The Impact of the social media and fake news on cultural diplomacy"at the International Institute of Cultural Diplomacy.

For convenience some of the references in the talk are listed below. The talk is adapted from a Gresham College lecture which you can find on this site.

The lecture makes use of a notorious YouTube video titled "Muslim demographics: the truth".  I feel a bit guilty about this since one of my observations in the lecture is that one should be very careful about retweeting untruths and that video is pack of lies.  There is an edition of BBC Radio 4 "More or Less" which nicely picks it apart -- so I've included a link to that as recompense.

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1. Eismann T.T., Wagner T.F., Baccarella C.V., Voigt KI. (2018) This Is How We Do It: Untangling Patterns of Super Successful Social Media Activities. In: Meiselwitz G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. User Experience and Behavior. SCSM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10913. Springer, Cham

2. Sprague, Daniel & House, Thomas. (2017). Evidence for complex contagion models of social contagion from observational data. PLOS ONE. 12. e0180802. 10.1371/journal.pone.0180802.

3. Richard Socher, Jeffrey Pennington, Eric H. Huang, Andrew Y. Ng, and Christopher D. Manning. 2011. Semi-supervised recursive autoencoders for predicting sentiment distributions. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’11). Association for Computational Linguistics, USA, 151–161.

4. Ginsberg, J., Mohebbi, M., Patel, R.et al.Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.Nature 457,1012–1014 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07634

5. The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

6. BY DAVID LAZER, RYAN KENNEDY, GARY KING, ALESSANDRO VESPIGNANI

7. SCIENCE14 MAR 2014 : 1203-1205

8. Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, and Yutaka Matsuo. 2010. Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web (WWW ’10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 851–860. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772777

9. Reece, A.G., Danforth, C.M. Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression.EPJ Data Sci.6,15 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0110-z

10. Oliver Hawkins, "Disproving the Muslime demographics sums"

11. Reema Aswani, Arpan Kumar Kar, and P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan. 2019. Experience: Managing Misinformation in Social Media—Insights for Policymakers from Twitter Analytics. J. Data and Information Quality 12, 1, Article 6 (January 2020), 18 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3341107

12. Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence, Cook J, Lewandowsky S, Ecker UKH (2017)Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces

13. their influence. PLOS ONE 12(5): e0175799.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.017579

14. Sacha Baron Cohen Keynote Address at the ADL 2019 summit.