Social Media

Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center Online Publications Library

The Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC) connects some 30 faculty from more than a dozen academic units on campus. These faculty affiliates publish their research in a...

Social 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...

ND TEC Launches Undergraduate Minor in Tech Ethics

What are the ethical responsibilities associated with developing artificial intelligence systems? What about the moral obligations of the companies and other entities that...

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...

Free Speech and the Media

Researchers Develop Early Warning System to Fight Disinformation Online

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are using artificial intelligence to develop an early warning system that will identify manipulated images, deepfake videos and...

Misinformation

Harrison 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...

Digital 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...

On Cryptocurrency, Facebook’s Libra, and Data Security—Mike Chapple, Notre Dame

Mike Chapple is academic director of Notre Dame’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program and an associate teaching professor of IT, analytics, and operations at the...

Fighting the Spread of Misinformation

It was 2012. Tim Weninger was a Ph.D. student surfing Facebook and Reddit. As a computer scientist, his procrastination took a turn when he noticed some alarming trends on the...

Is Winnie the Pooh Banned in China? Internet Censorship and Online Culture

Our media are full of stories about censorship in China. Yet despite strict government regulation, China has a rich and vibrant online culture. This talk shows both sides of the...