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Mapping Technologies for Peace and Conflict: From the Weaponization of Social Media to Digital Peacebuilding and Peacetech
This presentation will provide a survey of the best and worst impacts of technology on peace building. Beginning with an overview of how social media platforms’ profit models...
View EventMeet the Guest: Luke Stark
Luke Stark Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario Luke Stark is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information...
Read ArticleSocial Media’s Impacts on Conflict And Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
Social media platforms are having wide impacts on conflict dynamics around the world. Activists use the platforms to promote democracy and human rights, while autocrats use the...
watch videoAI Among Us: Social Media Users Struggle to Identify AI Bots During Political Discourse
Artificial intelligence bots have already permeated social media. But can users tell who is human and who is not? Researchers at the University of Notre Dame conducted a study...
Read ArticleMeet the Speaker: Pat Parks ’01
Prof. Pat Parks ’01 earned a graduate degree from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. Bringing a strong mix of intuition, emotional...
Read ArticleSiva Vaidhyanathan
Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship, University of Virginia Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies...
Read ArticleRussian Propaganda and Western Media: A View from Ukraine
Join the Nanovic Institute for European Studies for a virtual panel with four Ukrainian experts who will discuss Russian media narratives, fake news, and propaganda, focusing on...
watch videoND Perspectives: Media, Tech & Society – Is A Sneaky Serpent in Your Newsfeed?
Recorded at Reunion 2018, this fascinating panel discussion explores fake news and media literacy in today’s changing environment. Moderator: Diane Daniels, Weekend anchor at...
watch videoMeet the Speaker
Joan Donovan is the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online...
Read ArticleLife in Pixels featuring Nicole Starosielski
Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of, and live with, our computational social condition today....
watch videoHarrison Ayre on Social Media and Communion
Leonard DeLorenzo for Church Life Today welcomes Father Harrison Ayre to discuss the question: is social media a means of isolation or an instrument of communion? Father Ayre is...
Listen to PodcastDigital Friends on Faith and Friendship Through Social Media
Our guests this week – Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble FSP, Rev. Harrison Ayre, and Rev. Anthony Sciarappa – were part of a panel discussion at the dCEC’s 20th Annual Fall...
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