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Nick Anstead (LSE): Social Media Analytics and Public Opinion: Opportunities, Challenges and Theory

May 27, 2015
Video - Lectures

In his talk held at CEU on 14 May, Nick Anstead from the LSE discusses how social media challenges existing views of public opinion, and how this new data source can be used to better understand the public and/or possibly make better predictions as to public behaviour. 

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Sharath Srinivasan on Innovation Hubs in Africa

March 27, 2015
Video - Interviews

Sharath Srinivasan, Director of Cambridge University's Centre of Governance and Human Rights talks about media and technology, access to information and innovation hubs in East Africa.

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Alison Powell: Brokerage: Mediating Datafication, Citizenship and the City

March 18, 2015
Video - Lectures

Alison Powell, Assistant Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics examines how the emergence of various forms of data brokerage by companies as well as civic entities recasts notions of citizenship and institutional responsibility.

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Alison Powell on Access to Information

March 18, 2015
Video - Interviews

Alison Powell, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Phil Howard discuss access to information, the role of internet intermediaries, international differences in state responses to privacy and data protection, among others.

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Jillian C. York: Manipulating Social Media: Changing Political and Geographic Reality

March 9, 2015
Video - Lectures

Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation demonstrates how social media companies often present a different version of geopolitical reality than the one that exists offline, including examples taken from Facebook and Google.

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