RSM Fall 2023 Speaker Series
This fall, we’re welcoming an exciting group of authors, social scientists, industry practitioners, legal academics, and computer scientists for a weekly speaker series on social media topics.
This fall, we’re welcoming an exciting group of authors, social scientists, industry practitioners, legal academics, and computer scientists for a weekly speaker series on social media topics.
The events will be held at the Berkman Klein Center (room 515) from 12pm-1pm ET. Lunch will be served! In-person attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders, but the general public is invited to attend virtually via Zoom. Event pages for the final four dates will be posted soon.
October 11 — Gianluca Stringhini on Mitigating Malicious Activity Online
Gianluca Stringhini discusses the use of computational methods to mitigate malicious activity online.
October 25 — Disinformation Pulse: Lessons Learned from Brazil’s 2022 Elections
This panel event, including Paulo Carvão, Maria Eduarda de Assis, David Nemer, and Natalia Viana, discusses findings in the report, Disinformation Pulse: Lessons Learned from Brazil’s 2022 Elections.
November 1 — AI Ethics and Governance: An Industry Perspective
This panel event, including Paulo Carvão, Christina Montgomery, and John Fiske, explores the ethics of using AI in business.
November 8 — Platforms, creators, and the co-option of social justice narratives
Zoë Glatt discusses the juxtapositions between structural inequalities in the influencer industry and the ways in which platforms co-opt social justice narratives.
November 15 — Malcolm Harris in conversation with Erik Baker (VIRTUAL)
Malcolm Harris joins Erik Baker for a discussion on Harris’ bestselling book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
November 29 — Platforms, Privacy, and Power: Why Intimate Privacy Protections Matter
Jon Penney and Alexis Shore discuss their research on platform intimate privacy protections.
December 6 — The U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Study: understanding social media’s political effects
Natalie Stroud and Joshua Tucker share findings from the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election study.
December 13 — The Future of Social Media Research
Ethan Zuckerman joins RSM Faculty Director James Mickens for a discussion on the future of social media research and third-party social media tools.
