You may be interested in NewsTracer, an algorithm Reuters developed to verify news on Twitter: http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/reuters-built-its-own-algorithmic-predictio... I also think it's troubling that social constructivism is used as a proxy for declaring there to be no meaningful distinction between fake and valid news. It's struck me more than once this election how much in common the attitudes of those wishing to justify white fragility in the face of multi-ethnic society have with the (post?-)postmodern left. An aversion to truth, the declaration that all sources of authority are ideological and therefore suspect, the inability to approach any discussion empirically, the use of anecdotes that reinforce affective investments as a substitute for the notion of "fact," (one might term this the primacy of the fragile white lived experience), etc. What is sad is that this bundle of tactics is quite obviously not aligned with what the academic left might imagine its political aspirations to be. There is the tendency to mistake criticality for knee-jerk suspicion, broad generalizations, and the inability to engage with nuance. There is the total failure to distinguish between having a point of view on the basis of data and interpretation and having a point of view on the basis of the denial of politics as a collective labor. One that requires the resources of data and models, which in turn produce both the solutions and the problems of living together. The alternative is fawning adoration for a strongman figure that accomplishes the magical, saying nothing while simultaneously "telling it like it really is" on the right, and impotent "I told you so's" about perspectivalism on the left ("it's constructed! How dare you arbitrate between fake and real! Who are you to judge!"). All the while the material conditions for brown, black, poor, female, queer, neurodiverse, Native, and especially non-American lives are subject to real and lasting effects as a consequence of the interpretive lenses we choose for politics and living. Data without models is as bad as models without data. Choosing one (eg brittle and empty scientism, see eg scientific racism) over the other (some neurotic onanism of affect, see, eg, both Trump's supporters and Hillary's, who failed spectacularly to make the case for why she was the better candidate, engaging in a months long orgy of "Trump is bad" instead, fueling exactly their mirror image on the right, who turned out in droves to elect their dear leader) is stupid, and a bad a strategy for politics. Particularly for the left, who depends on meaningful and invested empiricism to resurrect rewritten histories and minor genealogies, to demonstrate the historicism of otherwise naturalized ideological claims, and to point out the social construction of biologized categories (eg, there are more genetic differences within a race than across them). All this work is necessary to open the world to alternatives, so to see it lambasted from the very political position that depends on it for relevance is a frustrating and all too common and myopic failure of the left, and particularly the academic left. Abandoning a truth/falsehood distinction doesn't make politics less untruthful, or guarantee its secular denaturalization. All it does is abandon the shifting of the goal posts to the right, who now declare new truths by dawn as they hide the bodies of truths dearly departed at dusk. Make no mistake: this distinction is a political fight. Be aware of where you stand. 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Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html -Ella Dr Ella Taylor-Smith School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. 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I also love the thread Yosem. Would anyone like to work on a project along these lines?
- fake news detection - alt-right detection
I have been drafting an announcement for a sponsored student data challenge using a fixed set of 20 million Trump tweets.
Is this something that members of the list would like to see students take part in? Do people think these difficult/contested concepts are readily detectable by humans and/or machines? Are there a few professors out there willing to serve as judges for the output of the student data challenge if we run it in early 2017?
Please email me directly off list (stu@texifter.com) if this is of interest.
~Stu
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:54 AM, MC Cambre <mcambre@ualberta.ca> wrote:
I love this thread. I have been collecting all the 'fake news' style announcements that I come across but I have not seen any academic work yet. cc
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Yosem Companys <companys@stanford.edu> wrote:
Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeanine Finn <jefinn@utexas.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Cc: Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:18:40 -0600 Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News I recently completed a dissertation that addressed credibility practices in news reporting. Who knew?! ;) In light of recent events - I put together a annotated bibliography of some of the more relevant materials from my lit review for scholars who might be new to this area. You might find something useful there: https://jeaninefinn.me/2016/11/15/understanding-fake-news- in-2016-before-the-truth-gets-its-pants-on/ <https://jeaninefinn.me/2016/ 11/15/understanding-fake-news-in-2016-before-the-truth-gets-its-pants-on/> Best, Jeanine <----------------------------------------------------> Jeanine Finn, PhD Researcher School of Information University of Texas at Austin jefinn@utexas.edu <mailto:jefinn@utexas.edu> http://jeaninefinn.me <http://jeaninefinn.me/>
On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:06 AM, Taylor-Smith, Ella < E.Taylor-Smith@napier.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I'm probably not the only person on this list who is writing a journal paper, wants to note the contemporary discourse around fake news (etc) and would like a nice academic paper to refer to.
Maybe this is also the kind of thing that Yosem is looking for.
I'm going to use Zeynep Tufekci's NY Times article for now, but I would really love a peer-reviewed alternative.
Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg- is-in-denial.html
-Ella
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maureen Coyle <mcoyle@gradcenter.cuny.edu> To: MC Cambre <mcambre@ualberta.ca>, Yosem Companys <companys@stanford.edu> Cc: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu>, AIR < air-l@aoir.org> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:24:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News I am very excited to see this thread because I have begun discussing with some colleagues about how to experimentally examine the social media response to fake news articles (as well as news articles with varying levels of complexity, news articles with moral vs factual reasoning, etc.) Just this week I started developing an experimental design that would involve quasi-behavioral research. If anyone would like to discuss further, please email me at mcoyle@gradcenter.cuny.edu. I would certainly be interested in developing collaborative work on this issue. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yosem Companys <companys@stanford.edu> To: "Ronald E. Rice" <rrice@comm.ucsb.edu>, AIR <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Cc: Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 05:29:56 -0800 Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News Exactly. I was wondering whether anyone has studied whether news -- fake or real -- had any tangible effect on the 2016 election outcome. Wouldn't Lazarsfeld et al. say "no," at least not directly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_flow_of_communication There is a long tradition of studying the effects of news on people's attitudes (or attitude change). My recollection is that news in and of itself has little influence on people's attitudes unless mediated by an influencer (i.e., hence Lazarsfeld 2-step flow of communication). But experiments show the opposite: News has a strong effect on people's attitudes, though the effect wanes over time. Anyone studied 2016 from this perspective? On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Ronald E. Rice <rrice@comm.ucsb.edu> wrote:
Perhaps more important and interesting: anyone have any studies showing that real (accurate, true) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome? ;=) -- Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication International Communication Association President 2006-2007 Dept. of Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg (SSMS) University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice@comm.ucsb.edu; http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
Quoting Yosem Companys <companys@stanford.edu>:
Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news
influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeanine Finn <jefinn@utexas.edu> To: Yosem Companys <companys@stanford.edu>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org Cc: Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:36:50 -0600 Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News There is a study of the 2004 elections that might be useful while we wait for the dust to settle from 2016. Carlson, M. (2007). Blogs and journalistic authority. Journalism Studies, 8(2) <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700601148861>, 264–279. doi:10.1080/14616700601148861 This paper asserts that the role of blogs cannot be adequately understood without examining the established media context in which they appear. Blogs operate along side, in conjunction with, and in opposition to established vehicles for political information, which creates tension among journalists seeking to preserve their authority. As a site to observe the blog-traditional journalism relationship, this article examines the reaction by journalists and others to blogs’ role in US Election Day 2004 coverage. Much of the attention by journalists focuses on assessing the well-publicized decision by some blogs to release incomplete exit polls erroneously predicting a victory for Democratic candidate John Kerry. This discourse works to make sense of the status and credibility of blogs while simultaneously allowing journalists to negotiate their role as authoritative providers of political news. Ultimately, the discourse underlines the dynamism of news in a contemporary media environment marked by new forms of complexity and competitiveness. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700601148861 < http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700601148861>
On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Yosem Companys <companys@stanford.edu <mailto: companys@stanford.edu>> wrote:
Exactly. I was wondering whether anyone has studied whether news -- fake or real -- had any tangible effect on the 2016 election outcome. Wouldn't Lazarsfeld et al. say "no," at least not directly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld <https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_flow_of_communication
There is a long tradition of studying the effects of news on people's attitudes (or attitude change). My recollection is that news in and of itself has little influence on people's attitudes unless mediated by an influencer (i.e., hence Lazarsfeld 2-step flow of communication). But experiments show the opposite: News has a strong effect on people's attitudes, though the effect wanes over time.
Anyone studied 2016 from this perspective?
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Ronald E. Rice <rrice@comm.ucsb.edu> wrote:
Perhaps more important and interesting: anyone have any studies showing that real (accurate, true) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome? ;=) -- Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication International Communication Association President 2006-2007 Dept. of Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg (SSMS) University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice@comm.ucsb.edu; http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
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influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
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