This also seems like a reasonable place to plug J Michael Sproule's work on the American experience with propaganda and misinformation: https://books.google.com/books?id=Xv9cXHL9f18C&lpg=PP1&dq=J%20Michael%20Spro... He also has a great piece from years ago on what happened to the original social science research program on propaganda: Sproule, J. M. (1987). Propaganda studies in American social science: The rise and fall of the critical paradigm. /Quarterly Journal of Speech/, /73/(1), 60-78. Cheers, Josh On 12/09/2016 09:37 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
Good Guardian story earlier in the week.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-in... <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook>
ISOC Chapters in NY and DC were already planning a panel series in 2017 'Content Rules, but Who Rules Content?' - we've been somewhat overtaken by events. I think the first one will be in Jan and be more angled at the effect of algorithms.
I will post.
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