Eratosthenes for the 21st Century: Inventing Cyber-Social Geography
Social media networks have meaningful and somewhat stable
macro-structural topologies, which constitute a kind of terrain
subject to mapping and dimensional analysis. Therefore one might
view “sociocultural terrain” as organized in two intersecting
planes
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vor 7 Jahren
John W. Kelly What the Audience will learn: In today’s world, the
major forces in politics, culture, and commerce struggle for
control over cyber-social terrain. From emerging youth subcultures
to state-sponsored propaganda, the battle for social influence
begins in social media and online conversation: the Networked
Public Sphere. Dr. Kelly will show how advanced machine learning
and large-scale network analysis can be used to understand how
these forces seek and achieve their power, looking at a number of
cases across various platforms — from hate speech, extremism, and
Fake News, to activism, cosplay, and 12th Century Persian poetry.
The focus will be on how 21st Century analytic technologies are
required to reveal the true power of 21st Century media.
major forces in politics, culture, and commerce struggle for
control over cyber-social terrain. From emerging youth subcultures
to state-sponsored propaganda, the battle for social influence
begins in social media and online conversation: the Networked
Public Sphere. Dr. Kelly will show how advanced machine learning
and large-scale network analysis can be used to understand how
these forces seek and achieve their power, looking at a number of
cases across various platforms — from hate speech, extremism, and
Fake News, to activism, cosplay, and 12th Century Persian poetry.
The focus will be on how 21st Century analytic technologies are
required to reveal the true power of 21st Century media.
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