Episode 12 Show Notes

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Danny’s homepage:

https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/daniel-weitzner/

Some of Danny’s Articles:

Castro, L. de, Lo, A. W., Reynolds, T., Susan, F., Vaikuntanathan, V., Weitzner, D. J., & Zhang, N. (2020). SCRAM: A Platform for Securely Measuring Cyber Risk . Harvard Data Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.b4bb506a
Cohen IG, Gostin LO, Weitzner DJ. Digital Smartphone Tracking for COVID-19: Public Health and Civil Liberties in Tension. JAMA. 2020;323(23):2371–2372. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8570
Specter, Michael A., James Koppel, and Daniel Weitzner. “The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting Application Used in US Federal Elections.” 29th USENIX Security Symposium 2020.
Frankle, J., Park, S., Shaar, D., Goldwasser, S., Weitzner, D., Practical Accountability of Secret Processes, USENIX 2018.
Weitzner, D, & Feigenbaum, J., On the incommensurability of laws and technical mechanisms: Lessons for encryption and surveillance. International Workshop on Security Protocols. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, March 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03251-7_31
Abelson, H., Anderson, R., Bellovin, S. M., Benaloh, J., Blaze, M., Diffie, W., Gilmore, J., Green, M., Landau, S., Neumann, P., Rivest, R. L., Schiller, J. I., Schneier, B., Specter, M., Weitzner, D. J. (2015). Keys under doormats: mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications. Journal of Cybersecurity (2015): Vol 1, pp. 1-11
Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Feigenbaum, Hendler, Sussman, Information Accountability, Communications of the ACM, June 2008

Danny’s Social Media

Twitter: @djweitzner

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djweitzner/

Episode 11 Show Notes

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Ravi’s website:

http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~ravi/

Some of Ravi’s Articles:

(Reinforcement Mining)

Mukherjee, S., Naveen, K. P., Sudarsanam, N., and Ravindran, B. (2018) “Efficient-UCBV: An Almost Optimal Algorithm using Variance Estimates”. To appear in the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18). AAAI Press.

Nema, P, Mohankumar, A. K., Khapra, M. M., Srinivasan, B. V., and Ravindran, B. (2019) “Let’s Ask Again: Refine Network for Automatic Question Generation”. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hong Kong, China. ACL Press.

(Data Mining)

Santhiappan, S., Chelladurai, J., and Ravindran, B. (2018) “A Novel Topic Modelling Based Weighting Framework for Class Imbalance Learning”. To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM IKDD Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CoDS-COMAD 2018). ACM DL. Named Best Paper.

Find more of his work here

Find publications from the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence here

See work from the AI For Social Good here

Ravi’s Talks

Why Reinforcement Learning is the next big thing in AI at the India Science Festival

Learning to Play by Playing

UnTagging AI, a TeDX talk

What is this thing called AI?

Ravi’s Social Media

Twitter: @ravi_iitm

Episode 10 Show Notes

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Eszter’s website:

http://www.eszter.com

Some of Eszter’s Articles:

Micheli, M., Redmiles, E. M., & Hargittai, E. (2019). Help wanted: Young adults’ sources of support for questions about digital media. Information, Communication & Society, 23(11). Find here

Hargittai, E., & Shaw, A. (2014). Mind the Skills Gap: The Role of Internet Know-How and Gender in Differentiated Contributions to Wikipedia. Information, Communication & Society, 18(4), 424-442. Find here

Menchen-Trevino, E., & Hargittai, E. (2010). Young Adults’ Credibility Assessment of Wikipedia. Information, Communication & Society, 14(1). Find here

Dobransky, K., & Hargittai, E. (n.d.). The Disability Divide in Internet Access and Use. Information, Communication & Society, 9(3). Retrieved 2006. Find here

Find more here

Eszter’s Twitter

https://twitter.com/eszter

Episode 9 Show Notes

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Deen Freelon’s bio:

Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies political uses of social media and other digital technologies. He is also a principal researcher for UNC’s interdisciplinary Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP). He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book. An expert in multiple programming languages including R, Python, and PHP, Freelon has written research-grade software applications for a range of computational research purposes. He formerly taught at American University in Washington, D.C.

Some of Deen’s Articles:

False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right

Disinformation as political communication

Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation

Computational research in the post-API age

Deen’s Social Media:

https://twitter.com/dfreelon

https://twitter.com/unc_citap

Deen’s Code on Github:

https://github.com/dfreelon

Episode 8 Show Notes

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Sandy Pentland’s website

Some of Sandy’s Articles:

The Data-Driven Society in the Scientific American

Reality Mining of Mobile Communications: Toward a New Deal on Data in The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009

Beyond Bitcoin: How Technology Could Help Fix Our Broken Financial System in the Scientific American

The New Science of Building Great Teams in Harvard Business Review

Sandy’s Books:

Building a New Economy (MIT Press)

Trusted Data (MIT Press)

Social Physics (Penguin)

Honest Signals (MIT Press)

Media Coverage:

Meet The Godfather of Wearables by Maria Konnikova for The Verge

Behavioural Science: Secret signals by Mark Buchanan

Sandy Pentland’s Work on Human Dynamics and Communication in PLAN Issue 72

Sandy’s Social Media:

Twitter: alex_pentland

Facebook: sandy.pentland

LinkedIn: alexsandypentland

Episode 7 Show Notes

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Gina Neff’s bio

Some of Gina’s Articles:

AI @ Work, a report with the Future Says initiative

A to Z of AI, a primer on AI

Neff, Gina, and Becca Schwartz. “The Gendered Affordances of Craigslist ‘New-in-Town Girls Wanted’ Ads.” New Media and Society, vol. 21, no. 11-12, 2019, pp. 2404–2421. Access here.

Schwartz, Becca, and Gina Neff. “The Gendered Affordances of Craigslist ‘New-in-Town Girls Wanted’ Ads.” New Media & Society 21, no. 11–12 (November 2019): 2404–21. Access here.

Nagy, Peter, and Gina Neff. “Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory.” Social Media + Society, (July 2015). Access here.

Gina’s Books:

Neff, Gina, and Dawn Nafus. Self-Tracking. The MIT Press, 2016.

Neff, Gina. Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries. Mit Press, 2015.

Other Podcasts With Gina:

All Work, Some Play, Mad Risk (Episode of Go For Broke, produced by Vox Media)

Exponential View, Quantified Self, Data Ownership and the sociological approach to Technology

Lecture by Gina:

Does AI have Gender

Gina’s Twitter:

@ginasue

Episode 6 Show Notes

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Brooke Welles’ bio and website

Some of Brooke’s Articles:

Hijacking# myNYPD: Social media dissent and networked counterpublics

#Ferguson is everywhere: initiators in emerging counterpublic networks

# GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online

Brooke’s Book:

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles. Access here

Media Coverage:

Hashtag Activism, book review: A sign of the times by Wendy M Grossman for ZDNet

The Second Act of Social-Media Activism by Jane Hu for The New Yorker

How to ensure your online activism has an offline impact by Natasha Pinon for Mashable

Brooke’s Twitter:

@foucaultwelles

Episode 5 Show Notes

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Fil Menczer’s bio and website

Some of Fil’s Articles:

Menczer, F., & Hills, T. (2020, December 1). Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It. Scientific American. Access here.

Avram, M., Micallef, N., Patil, S., & Menczer, F. (2020). Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. Access here.

Sasahara, K., Chen, W., Peng, H., Ciampaglia, G. L., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2020). Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers. Journal of Computational Social Science. Access here.

Lazer, D. M. J., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., … Metzger, M. J. (2018, March 9). The Science of Fake News, 359(6380). Access here.

Ciampaglia, G. L., Nematzadeh, A., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2018). How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality. Scientific Reports, 8. Access here.

Shao, C., Ciampaglia, G. L., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2018). The spread of low-credibility content by social bots. Nature Communications, 9. Access here.

Ferrara, E., Varol, O., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2016, July). The Rise of Social Bots. Communications of the ACM, 59(7), 96–104. Access here.

Fil’s Books:

Menczer, F., Fortunato, S., & Davis, C. A. (2020). A first course in network science. Cambridge University press. Access here

Fil’s social media handles:

@OSoMe_IU on Twitter
Observatory on Social Media on Facebook

Episode 4 Show Notes

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Jen Golbeck’s website and professor bio

Some of Jen Golbeck’s Ted Talks/TedX Talks

The curly fry conundrum: Why social media “likes” say more than you might think

Transforming Society One Algorithm at a Time

The Internet and Pets

Some of Jen Golbeck’s Books

Analyzing the Social Web

Computing with Social Trust

Art Theory for Web Design

Trust on the World Wide Web

Jen Golbeck’s Dogs on Social Media

@TheGoldenRatio4 on Twitter and Instagram

The Golden Ratio Wiki

Jen Golbeck’s Podcasts:

The Golden Ratio Podcast

Murders in Paradise

Runs With Dogs

Episode 3 Show Notes

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Dame Wendy Hall’s Bio and Twitter

Some of Dame Wendy Hall’s Articles

Berners-Lee, Tim, et al. “A framework for Web Science.” Foundations and Trends in Web Science, vol. 1, no. 1, 2006, p. 1. Gale Academic OneFile

Hendler, J., Shadbolt, N., Hall, W., Berners-Lee, T., & Weitzner, D. (2008). Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web. Communications of the ACM, 51(7), 60–69. (Access through Paperpile)

Tiropanis, T., Hall, W., & Shadbolt, N. (2013). The web science observatory. IEEE Intelligent. (Access through Paperpile)

Tiropanis, T., Hall, W., Crowcroft, J., Contractor, N., & Tassiulas, L. (2015). Network science, web science, and internet science. Communications of the ACM, 58(8), 76–82. (Access through Paperpile)

O’Hara, K., Contractor, N. S., Hall, W., Hendler, J., & Shadbolt, N. (2013). Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web. Foundations and Trends® in Web Science, 4(2–3), 103–267. (Access through Paperpile)

Related to this Episode

Web Science Trust Website

The future of the four kingdoms of the internet (An article in the Financial Times about the four internets that Dame Wendy Hall describes in this episode)