Archive of stories published by Tow Center

This is the full text of a lecture delivered by Emily Bell last week at the University of Cambridge, where she is the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media 2015–16 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social…

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Jonathan Albright in Tow Center

Mar 20, 2018

The Graph API: Key Points in the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Debacle

That ain’t workin ‘, that’s…

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Jonathan Albright in Tow Center

Oct 13, 2017

Cambridge Analytica: the Geotargeting and Emotional Data Mining Scripts

Last year, Michael Phillips, a data science intern at Cambridge Analytica, posted the following scripts to a set of “work samples” on his personal GitHub account.

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Jonathan Albright in Tow Center

Jul 30, 2017

Who Hacked the Election? Ad Tech did. Through “Fake News,” Identity Resolution and Hyper-Personalization

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Jonathan Stray in Tow Center

Feb 27, 2017

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda

In honor of MisinfoCon this weekend, it’s time for a brain dump on propaganda — that is, getting large numbers of people to believe something for political gain. Many of my journalist and technologist…

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Apr 13, 2017

A final, data-driven look at Trump v. Clinton on social media

By Jennifer Stromer-Galley

After the surprise win by Donald J. Trump, several postmortems have contemplated how Trump elevated Twitter to drive attention to his candidacy. A scholarly forum in the…

Sara M. Watson in Tow Center

Oct 4, 2016

Style Guide for Writing About Technology

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

Through my technology criticism research, I asked writers and journalists to identify common fallacies and failures of technology writing…

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Sara M. Watson in Tow Center

Oct 4, 2016

Constructive Technology Criticism Annotated Syllabus

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia…

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Jonathan Albright in Tow Center

Oct 17, 2018

Web no.point.0: rise of the Splintr.net

We need to stop asking what the internet can do for us —…

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Jacob L. Nelson in Tow Center

Nov 3, 2017

How Perceptions of the News Audience Shape Pursuits of the News Audience

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