propaganda reading list — 2020 Feb
Berit Anderson. (2017 february 12). “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine: There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.” Medium > Scout: Science Fiction + Journalism.
https://medium.com/join-scout/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine-86dac61668b
Kurt Andersen. (2017 September issue). “How America Lost Its Mind: The nation’s current post-truth moment is the ultimate expression of mind-sets that have made America exceptional throughout its history.” The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231
James Bridle. (2017 November 6). Something Is Wrong On The Internet. https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
Maciej Cegłowski. (2017 April 18 talk). “Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance.” Idle Words > Talks.http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm
Renee DiResta. (2017 May 23). “There are bots. Look around.” Ribbonfarm: Experiments in refactored perception.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around
Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss. (2014 november 22). “The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money.” The Interpreter.
http://www.interpretermag.com/the-menace-of-unreality-how-the-kremlin-weaponizes-information-culture-and-money
Extra credit: full pdf [44 pages]: http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PW-31.pdf
Jonathan Stray. (2017 february 24). “Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda.” JonathanStray.com.
http://jonathanstray.com/networked-propaganda-and-counter-propaganda
Charles Stross. (2018 January 2 posted from a 2017 December talk). “Dude, you broke the future!” Charlie’s Diary.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html
EXTRA CREDIT
At least one of these:
Computational Propaganda Research Project. (2017). Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. Working paper no. 2017.12 Oxford, UK: Oxford University. [37 pages]
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/07/Troops-Trolls-and-Troublemakers.pdf
Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis. (2017). Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online. Data & Society. [106 pages].
https://datasociety.net/pubs/oh/DataAndSociety_MediaManipulationAndDisinformationOnline.pdf
Truth Decay: An initial exploration of the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2300/RR2314/RAND_RR2314.pdf
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