Oct 2020
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This is a workshop for journalists and data enthusiasts. The instructors - Nayantara Ranganathan and Manuel Beltrán - will introduce participants on how to work with political advertising data from social media platforms. The instructors will cover a basic 101 of the transparency framework, background information required to understand the data, and investigate (and frame) questions from a sample dataset.
The workshop plan includes:
Workshop details:
1. To attend this workshop, participants must participate with their laptops.
2. Participants are also required to bring ideas for what they want to investigate in the ad datasets. The ideas discussion will take place in the comments section.
3. The workshop is of 90-120 mins duration.
About the instructors:
1. Nayantara Ranganathan is a lawyer and researcher studying politics and culture of digital technologies. She worked at the Internet Democracy Project, applying feminist methods of research and practice to questions of data governance. She co-founded Persuasion Lab, a project to explore new forms of political propaganda on social media.
2. Manuel Beltrán is an artist and activist. In 2015 he founded the Institute of Human Obsolescence through which he explores the future of labor, the social and political implications of our relationship with technology, and the economic and governance systems surrounding the production of data. He is also the co-founder of the Persuasion Lab.
Participation: The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Registered participants will receive the Zoom link for participating in the session.
References and links:
1. https://ad.watch - Investigating Political Advertisements on Facebook
2. https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/what/ad-watch.html
3. https://ad.watch - website and archive
4. https://ad.watch, https://counterpublics.mur.at
5. This Tool Lets You See Facebook’s Targeted Political Ads All Over the World - https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7edb/this-tool-lets-you-see-facebooks-targeted-political-ads-all-over-the-world
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Submitted Oct 5, 2020
A workshop for journalists and data enthusiasts where we will introduce how to work with political advertising data of social media platforms. We will cover a basic 101 of the transparency framework, the background information needed to understand the data, and investigate a couple of questions from a sample dataset.
Nayantara Ranganathan is a lawyer and researcher studying the politics and culture of digital technologies. She worked at the Internet Democracy Project where she worked on applying feminist methods of research and practice to questions of data governance. She co-founded Persuasion Lab, a project exploring new forms of political propaganda on social media.
Manuel Beltrán is an artist and activist. xIn 2015 he founded the Institute of Human Obsolescence, through which he explores the future of labor, the social and political implications of our relationship with technology, and the economic and governance systems surrounding the production of data. He is also the co-founder of the Persuasion Lab, a project exploring new forms of political propaganda on social media, that also hosts a parallel archive of political ads data across major Big Tech platforms.
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