Social Media and Politics
Join Professor Joshua Tucker of NYU as he speaks about social media and politics and shares his lab's research on hate speech, fake news, and Russian trolls in the 2016 US election campaign.
Date: | 19th November 2019 |
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Time: | 16.15 h to 17.45 h |
Location: | Universität Luzern, HS 7 |
When social media first burst onto the political scene in early part of this decade, it was hailed as "liberation technology" because of the role it could play in spreading democratization around the globe. Within five short years, commentators instead would be asking "can democracy survive the internet?"