DISINFOCON

Social media promised a voice for the marginalised and powerless. Danah Boyd shows us how our voices – amplified – redefined power.

Wonderful links from points mentioned in our conversation, courtesy of Danah:

• Madeleine Elish / Moral Crumple Zones: 
  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236
• Becca Lewis / Alternative Influence Network:
  https://datasociety.net/output/alternative-influence/ 
• Whitney Phillips / Oxygen of Amplification:
  https://datasociety.net/output/oxygen-of-amplification/
• Francesca Tripodi / Searching for Alternative Facts:  
  https://datasociety.net/output/searching-for-alternative-facts/
• Danah on Strategic Amplification:
  https://points.datasociety.net/media-manipulation-strategic-amplification-and-responsible-journalism-95f4d611f462
• Data voids:
  https://datasociety.net/output/data-voids-where-missing-data-can-easily-be-exploited/
• Alex Rosenblat / Uberland: 
  https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298576/uberland
• Adam Kalai / bias in gender search:
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520

Here is Danah’s incredible RE:PUBLICA talk from May 2018.  Trust me, you will not regret taking the 50 minutes to watch this.