Under the aegis of the Personalized Communication Research Priority Area of the University of Amsterdam, the Institute for Information Law, and the Amsterdam School of Communication Research organized a one day symposium on the theory and practice of political micro-targeting. The occasion was the upcoming special issue of Internet Policy Review on political microtargeting, which is guest […]
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Executive Summary: “The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has researched the use of social media for public opinion manipulation. The team involved 12 researchers across nine countries who, altogether, interviewed 65 experts, analyzed tens of millions posts on seven different social media platforms during scores of elections, political crises, and national security incidents.
Jeremy de Beer, Jeremiah Baarbé, and Sarah Thuswaldner at Open AIR: “Agricultural data is a vital resource in the effort to address food insecurity. This data is used across the food-production chain.
Karuna Pande Joshi and Tim Finin in The Conversation: “We humans are swamped with text. It’s not just news and other timely information: Regular people are drowning in legal documents. The problem is so bad we mostly ignore it.
This is the third in a series of blogs on how we are using the Agile methodology at Open Knowledge International. Originating from software development, the Agile manifesto describes a set of principles that prioritise agility in work processes: for example through continuous development, self-organised teams with frequent interactions and quick responses to change (http://agilemanifesto.org). In this blogging series we go into the different ways Agile can be used to work better in teams and to create more efficiency in how to deliver projects.
Viderum spun off as a company from Open Knowledge International in 2016 with the aim to provide services and products to further expand the reach of open data around the world.
Los medios periodísticos siguen siendo los más confiables y utilizados por los internautas españoles frente a las redes sociales
El Digital News Report 2017, elaborado por investigadores de la Universidad, analiza las tendencias de consumo de información digital en España
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Author(s): Kristen E. EichensehrPublication Date: June 22, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingFormer Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testified Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the House investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Medio centenar de funcionarios de nuestra Casa de Estudios concurrió al taller. Allí, recibieron información sobre los distintos beneficios a los que pueden acceder quienes trabajan en la Institución, y participaron en grupos de trabajo junto a sus colegas de otras unidades en una dinámica para aportar al trabajo de la Dirección de Recursos Humanos.El día 23 de mayo se reunieron en la sala Eloísa Díaz de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile medio centenar de asistentes sociales y jefes de personal de los distintos organismos de nuestra institución.
Un discurso centrado en la defensa de la educación como un derecho dio el Rector de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Waldo Albarracín, en el marco de la ceremonia en la que asumió como nuevo Presidente de la Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo.
Matthew Hutson at Science: “The health care bill winding its way through the U.S. Senate is just one of thousands of pieces of legislation Congress will consider this year, most doomed to failure. Indeed, only about 4% of these bills become law. So which ones are worth paying attention to? A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm could help.
The conference is organised to celebrate La Stampa’s 150th anniversary. Expected participants: Robert Allbritton, Lionel Barber, Jeff Bezos, Mario Calabresi, Carlo De Benedetti, Louis Dreyfus, Bobby Ghosh, Tsuneo Kita, Jessica Lessin, Gary Liu, John Micklethwait, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Maurizio Molinari, Lyda Polgreen, Julian Reichelt, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Massimo Russo, Mark Thompson and Robert Thomson.
Always Already Computational is a project bringing together a variety of different perspectives to develop “a strategic approach to developing, describing, providing access to, and encouraging reuse of collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching” in subject areas relating to library and museum collections. This post is adapted from my Position Statement for the initial workshop.
Zapraszamy instytucje kultury z małych ośrodków i lokalnych animatorów kultury do udziału w trzeciej edycji programu “Wizja lokalna: Twoja wizja na lokalność”.
„Wizja lokalna” to program adresowany do osób zaangażowanych w działania edukacyjne i animacyjne wokół lokalnego dziedzictwa. Jego ideą jest wspieranie kadr kultury w pracy na rzecz budowania społeczności wokół prowadzonych działań, wdrażanie partycypacyjnych modeli pracy z odbiorcami oraz nowych narzędzi cyfrowych i powiązanych z nimi modeli (współpracy.
Alison DeNisco at TechRepublic: “Blockchain is moving from banking to the refugee crisis, as Microsoft and Accenture on Monday announced a partnership to use the technology to provide a legal form of identification for 1.1 billion people worldw
Springwise: “Artificial intelligence software installed into drones is to be used by US tech company Neurala to help protect endangered species from poachers. Working with the region’s Lingbergh Foundation, Neurala is currently helping operations in South Africa, Malawi and Zimbabwe and have had requests from Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia for assistance with combatting poaching.
LSE Press Release: “A crowdsourcing project inspiring millennials in Britain and the EU to help shape the upcoming Brexit negotiations is being launched by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) this week.
The social media-based project, which hopes to engage 3000 millennials aged 35 and under, kicks off on 23 June, the first anniversary of the life-changing vote to take Britain out of the EU.