[Air-L] Fake News

Fri Dec 9 08:59:47 PST 2016

You may be interested in NewsTracer, an algorithm Reuters developed to
verify news on Twitter:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/reuters-built-its-own-algorithmic-prediction-tool-to-help-it-spot-and-verify-breaking-news-on-twitter/

I also think it's troubling that social constructivism is used as a proxy
for declaring there to be no meaningful distinction between fake and valid
news. It's struck me more than once this election how much in common the
attitudes of those wishing to justify white fragility in the face of
multi-ethnic society have with the (post?-)postmodern left. An aversion to
truth, the declaration that all sources of authority are ideological and
therefore suspect, the inability to approach any discussion empirically,
the use of anecdotes that reinforce affective investments as a substitute
for the notion of "fact," (one might term this the primacy of the fragile
white lived experience), etc.

What is sad is that this bundle of tactics is quite obviously not aligned
with what the academic left might imagine its political aspirations to be.
There is the tendency to mistake criticality for knee-jerk suspicion, broad
generalizations, and the inability to engage with nuance.

There is the total failure to distinguish between having a point of view on
the basis of data and interpretation and having a point of view on the
basis of the denial of politics as a collective labor. One that requires
the resources of data and models, which in turn produce both the solutions
and the problems of living together.

The alternative is fawning adoration for a strongman figure that
accomplishes the magical, saying nothing while simultaneously "telling it
like it really is" on the right, and impotent "I told you so's" about
perspectivalism on the left ("it's constructed! How dare you arbitrate
between fake and real! Who are you to judge!"). All the while the material
conditions for brown, black, poor, female, queer, neurodiverse, Native, and
especially non-American lives are subject to real and lasting effects as a
consequence of the interpretive lenses we choose for politics and living.

Data without models is as bad as models without data. Choosing one (eg
brittle and empty scientism, see eg scientific racism) over the other (some
neurotic onanism of affect, see, eg, both Trump's supporters and Hillary's,
who failed spectacularly to make the case for why she was the better
candidate, engaging in a months long orgy of "Trump is bad" instead,
fueling exactly their mirror image on the right, who turned out in droves
to elect their dear leader) is stupid, and a bad a strategy for politics.

Particularly for the left, who depends on meaningful and invested
empiricism to resurrect rewritten histories and minor genealogies, to
demonstrate the historicism of otherwise naturalized ideological claims,
and to point out the social construction of biologized categories (eg,
there are more genetic differences within a race than across them).

All this work is necessary to open the world to alternatives, so to see it
lambasted from the very political position that depends on it for relevance
is a frustrating and all too common and myopic failure of the left, and
particularly the academic left. Abandoning a truth/falsehood distinction
doesn't make politics less untruthful, or guarantee its secular
denaturalization. All it does is abandon the shifting of the goal posts to
the right, who now declare new truths by dawn as they hide the bodies of
truths dearly departed at dusk. Make no mistake: this distinction is a
political fight. Be aware of where you stand.

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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News
Hi,

I'm probably not the only person on this list who is writing a journal
paper, wants to note the contemporary discourse around fake news (etc)  and
would like a nice academic paper to refer to.

Maybe this is also the kind of thing that Yosem is looking for.

I'm going to use Zeynep Tufekci's NY Times article for now, but I would
really love a peer-reviewed alternative.

Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html

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From: Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 05:08:46 -0800
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News
I agree that this is an important thread, and I have very much enjoyed
receiving papers from colleagues. So please keep them coming.

Thanks,
Yosem

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I also love the thread Yosem. Would anyone like to work on a project along
> these lines?
>
> - fake news detection
> - alt-right detection
>
> I have been drafting an announcement for a sponsored student data
> challenge using a fixed set of 20 million Trump tweets.
>
> Is this something that members of the list would like to see students take
> part in? Do people think these difficult/contested concepts are readily
> detectable by humans and/or machines? Are there a few professors out there
> willing to serve as judges for the output of the student data challenge if
> we run it in early 2017?
>
> Please email me directly off list (stu at texifter.com) if this is of
> interest.
>
> ~Stu
>
> Stu Shulman <https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman>
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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:54 AM, MC Cambre <mcambre at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>
>> I love this thread. I have been collecting all the 'fake news' style
>> announcements that I come across but I have not seen any academic work
>> yet.
>> cc
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media)
>> news
>> > influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Yosem
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From: Jeanine Finn <jefinn at utexas.edu>
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:18:40 -0600
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News
I recently completed a dissertation that addressed credibility practices in
news reporting. Who knew?! ;)

In light of recent events - I put together a annotated bibliography of some
of the more relevant materials from my lit review for scholars who might be
new to this area. You might find something useful there:

https://jeaninefinn.me/2016/11/15/understanding-fake-news-
in-2016-before-the-truth-gets-its-pants-on/ <https://jeaninefinn.me/2016/
11/15/understanding-fake-news-in-2016-before-the-truth-gets-its-pants-on/>

Best,

Jeanine

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http://jeaninefinn.me <http://jeaninefinn.me/>

> On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:06 AM, Taylor-Smith, Ella <
E.Taylor-Smith at napier.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm probably not the only person on this list who is writing a journal
paper, wants to note the contemporary discourse around fake news (etc)  and
would like a nice academic paper to refer to.
>
> Maybe this is also the kind of thing that Yosem is looking for.
>
> I'm going to use Zeynep Tufekci's NY Times article for now, but I would
really love a peer-reviewed alternative.
>
> Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-
is-in-denial.html
>
>
> -Ella
>
>
> Dr Ella Taylor-Smith
>
> School of Computing
> Edinburgh Napier University
> 10 Colinton Road
> Edinburgh, EH10 5DT
>
> Email: e.taylor-smith at napier.ac.uk
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Cc: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>, AIR <
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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:24:10 +0000
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News
I am very excited to see this thread because I have begun discussing with
some colleagues about how to experimentally examine the social media
response to fake news articles (as well as news articles with varying
levels of complexity, news articles with moral vs factual reasoning, etc.)
Just this week I started developing an experimental design that would
involve quasi-behavioral research. If anyone would like to discuss further,
please email me at mcoyle at gradcenter.cuny.edu. I would certainly be
interested in developing collaborative work on this issue.

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From: Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>
To: "Ronald E. Rice" <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>, AIR <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Cc:
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 05:29:56 -0800
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News
Exactly. I was wondering whether anyone has studied whether news -- fake or
real -- had any tangible effect on the 2016 election outcome. Wouldn't
Lazarsfeld et al. say "no," at least not directly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_flow_of_communication

There is a long tradition of studying the effects of news on people's
attitudes (or attitude change). My recollection is that news in and of
itself has little influence on people's attitudes unless mediated by an
influencer (i.e., hence Lazarsfeld 2-step flow of communication). But
experiments show the opposite: News has a strong effect on people's
attitudes, though the effect wanes over time.

Anyone studied 2016 from this perspective?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Ronald E. Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Perhaps more important and interesting: anyone have any studies showing
> that real (accurate, true) news influenced the 2016 presidential election
> outcome?  ;=)
> --
> Ronald E. Rice
> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
> International Communication Association President 2006-2007
> Dept. of Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg (SSMS)
> University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
> Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102
> rrice at comm.ucsb.edu; http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
>
>
> Quoting Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>:
>
> Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news
>> influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yosem
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From: Jeanine Finn <jefinn at utexas.edu>
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Cc:
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:36:50 -0600
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fake News
There is a study of the 2004 elections that might be useful while we wait
for the dust to settle from 2016.

Carlson, M. (2007). Blogs and journalistic authority. Journalism
Studies, 8(2) <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700601148861>,
264–279. doi:10.1080/14616700601148861

This paper asserts that the role of blogs cannot be adequately understood
without examining the established media context in which they appear. Blogs
operate along side, in conjunction with, and in opposition to established
vehicles for political information, which creates tension among journalists
seeking to preserve their authority. As a site to observe the
blog-traditional journalism relationship, this article examines the
reaction by journalists and others to blogs’ role in US Election Day 2004
coverage. Much of the attention by journalists focuses on assessing the
well-publicized decision by some blogs to release incomplete exit polls
erroneously predicting a victory for Democratic candidate John Kerry. This
discourse works to make sense of the status and credibility of blogs while
simultaneously allowing journalists to negotiate their role as
authoritative providers of political news. Ultimately, the discourse
underlines the dynamism of news in a contemporary media environment marked
by new forms of complexity and competitiveness.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700601148861 <
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700601148861>

> On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu <mailto:
companys at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
> Exactly. I was wondering whether anyone has studied whether news -- fake
or
> real -- had any tangible effect on the 2016 election outcome. Wouldn't
> Lazarsfeld et al. say "no," at least not directly?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld <https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_flow_of_communication
>
> There is a long tradition of studying the effects of news on people's
> attitudes (or attitude change). My recollection is that news in and of
> itself has little influence on people's attitudes unless mediated by an
> influencer (i.e., hence Lazarsfeld 2-step flow of communication). But
> experiments show the opposite: News has a strong effect on people's
> attitudes, though the effect wanes over time.
>
> Anyone studied 2016 from this perspective?
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Ronald E. Rice <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu>
wrote:
>
>> Perhaps more important and interesting: anyone have any studies showing
>> that real (accurate, true) news influenced the 2016 presidential election
>> outcome?  ;=)
>> --
>> Ronald E. Rice
>> Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
>> International Communication Association President 2006-2007
>> Dept. of Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg (SSMS)
>> University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
>> Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102
>> rrice at comm.ucsb.edu; http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice
>>
>>
>> Quoting Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>:
>>
>> Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news
>>> influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yosem
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· Data mining and knowledge discovery
· Big data storage, replication, and consistency
· Modeling, mining and querying user generated content
· Data quality and data cleansing
· Web, XML and semi-structured databases
· Sensor databases and mobile data management
· Text databases and information retrieval
· Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying
· Temporal and spatial databases
· Graph databases
· Databases on emerging hardware architectures
· Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value
stores,
and Big Data systems
· Information extraction and integration
· Streaming data analysis
· Scalable data analysis and analytics
· Data and information visualization; and user interfaces
· Information quality and usability
· Information system architectures and networking
· Business process modeling and optimization
· Data and information flow engineering and management
· Context-aware and adaptive information systems
· Data and information intensive services
· Requirements engineering for databases and information systems
· Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems
· Data, information, and information systems security
· Innovative platforms for data and information handling
· Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering
· Novel database and information systems applications

PAPER PUBLISHING

ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in
the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find
here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXI
tTEBsaXN0c2Vydi5hb2lyLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2U
gb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN
0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogU2Vjb25kIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwkxMDU
JTGlzdHMJMjE0CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.
springer.com%2Fcomputer%2Flncs%3FSGWID=
0-164-2-793332-0&changeHeader). The program committee may
decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting
results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short
research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely
by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will
be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals
Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/)
and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

· Papers must be written in English.
· Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted
concurrently to another conference.
· Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed
below.
· An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to
have the paper published.
· Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.
· ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system:
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXI
tTEBsaXN0c2Vydi5hb2lyLm9yZwkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2U
gb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN
0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogU2Vjb25kIENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwkxMDU
JTGlzdHMJMjE0CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%
2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dadbis2017.
· Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document
· Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready
version of their paper a copyright form filled
(http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and
signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution)
tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country
should not tick this box.

IMPORTANT DATES

· Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017
· Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017
· Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017

COMMITTEES

Steering Committee Chair
· Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

General Chair
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
· Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
· Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Proceedings Chair
· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Workshops Chairs
· Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
· Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
· Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France
· Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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