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News of the Week; October 11, 2017
DIGITAL Catalan independence websites blocked by Spanish government in bid to stop referendum: ‘Blocking domain name servers is doing what Turkey does and what China does and North Korea does’ The Disturbing Rise Of Cyberattacks Against Abortion Clinics Iran Cracks Down On Movie Pirates In The Most Inception-Esque Manner Possible Russia Moves to Block Cryptocurrency […]
October 16 Presentation – Asia Schmok
Algorithmic Responsibility and Regulation (or lack thereof) Presentation Outline Videos: TED Talks – What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE Are Hiding From The World – The Filter Bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6vM4dhI9I8 Anil Dash on The Web We Lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKMnoTTHJk Readings: Digital Market Manipulation by Ryan Calo http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Calo_82_41.pdf
October 16 Presentation: Rosanna, Le Min, Hailey
Outline for Oct. 16 Presentation by Rosanna Chung, Le Min Cheong, and Hailey Mah Readings: Can Apple’s iPhone X Beat Facial Recognition’s Bias Problem? (Wired) How Russia’s New Facial Recognition App Could End Anonymity (The Atlantic) Video: How Does Facial Recognition Work? (7:26), BBC Earth Lab
News of the Week; October 4, 2017
DIGITAL Bad Info Follows Every Tragedy. Don’t Fall For It Google’s Top Stories Promoted Misinformation About the Las Vegas Shooting From 4Chan Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news: 4chan was, for some reason, counted among Google News’ “authoritative” sources. The Death Loop This “Ghost Gun” Machine Now Makes Untraceable Metal Handguns […]
Slides Class #4
Here they are. See you in two weeks. Jon
News of the Week; September 27, 2017
DIGITAL Russian operatives used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter and Muslims Facebook’s Frankenstein Moment Facebook Can Absolutely Control Its Algorithm Facebook revamps political-ad rules after discovering Russian ad buys: Shadowy Russian group spent $100,000 on political ads during the 2016 election. Mark Zuckerberg Is Still Pissed That We Know About His […]
Jonathan Zittrain on Memes & Society
Promised yesterday as we were discussing how memes fit into normative and legal frameworks to post this awesome talk by Prof. Jonathan Zittrain of HLS on the subject. Enjoy. You will (I promise)…. Jon
Slides Class #3
Here they are… Jon