Three visiting scholars from the Université Catholique de Louvain who are working on a “Digital Populism in Europe” project will work with UC Irvine faculty and Dr. Joan Donovan to brainstorm ideas for collaborative grant proposals to support research collaborations on digital extremism.

This event is by invite only. Please contact dean@socsci.uci.edu for further information. 

 

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Part of the Digital Extremism: Understanding and Confronting the Alt-right’s Digital Toolkit series:

Recent elections in western industrialized democracies have been marred by accusations of interference by concerted social media campaigns that targeted specific demographic categories of voters with disinformation and propaganda. Almost overnight, political advisors, scholars, data analysis professionals, and the social media platforms themselves realized they needed a crash course in the use and abuse of the marriage between predictive analytics and digital content. Through a series of activities and programs on campus featuring a noted expert in digital media manipulation; a graduate student workshop to create curricular modules; a grant-writing workshop; and the development of a new undergraduate course on digital media manipulation, we will give students the tools they need to understand how digital disinformation is created and spreads online, to inoculate themselves against its effects, and ultimately to encourage a responsible digital civics for the social, mobile, always-online connected world in which everything—including our political discourse—now lives.

A Series of Events featuring Joan Donovan, Digital Media Manipulation Lead, Data and Society

April 4-6, 2018

Sponsors:
School of Social Sciences | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
Office of Inclusive Excellence Confronting Extremism Initiative

For a full agenda, please visit https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/events/2018/2018-04-04-digital-extremism.