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Lehrende: Marcel Alexander Schliebs
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Fake News & Disi
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
6,0
Hinweis: In Ihrer Prüfungsordnung können abweichende Credits festgelegt sein.
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 28
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte:
Fake-News and Disinformation are two central challenges for the health of democracies, and have been found to have affected a series of recent elections and referendums around the world, with both domestic and foreign actors conducting sophisticated information operations aimed at sowing dissent, increasing political polarization, and interfere in voters' decision-making process. This class will cover the origins and prevalence of disinformation in traditional and social media, study actors and narratives, and discuss consequences of disinformation for democratic societies.
After a historical and theoretical introduction into disinformation and propaganda, we will examine different actors and strategies, discuss scientific approaches to study the spread and effects of disinformation, and evaluate the effectiveness of counter-strategies such as fact-checking or content moderation. Furthermore, the class covers micro- and macro-level effects on individuals and the democratic system as a whole. The course closes with an in-depth study of current and future challenges, using the recent COVID-19 "infodemic", the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election, as well as Artificial Intelligence and Deep Fakes as illustrative cases studies.
Preliminary Session Plan (The syllabus and respective literature can be found at www.marcel-schliebs.com/files/teaching/syllabus_zu_fake-news.pdf):
1. Intro, Relevance & Definitions
2. History of Disinformation & Propaganda
3. Actors and Threat Models
4. Narratives, Platforms & Strategies
5. The Epistemology of Fake-News
6. Combating Misinformation
7. Micro-Perspective: Effect on Individuals
8. Macro-Perspective: Democracy at Risk?
9. The COVID-19 "Infodemic"
10. Disinformation" and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
11. Artificial Intelligence & Deep Fakes
12. Conclusion, Career Prospects & Essay Preparation
Weitere Informationen zu den Prüfungsleistungen:
Final Paper (100%) covering one or more of the course themes due on January 31st 2021. Topic to be agreed upon with the instructor.
The voluntary submission of a shorter draft version of the essay (due two weeks after the last lecture) is highly recommended. Feedback and suggestions for improvement will be provided until the end of November.
Literatur:
Aral, S., & Eckles, D. (2019). Protecting elections from social media manipulation. Science, 365(6456), 858-861.
Bagge, D. (2019). Unmasking Maskirovka: Russia's Cyber Influence Operations. Defense Press.
Howard, P. (2020). Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots,Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives. Yale University Press.
Jamieson, K.H. (2018). Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President. Oxford University Press.
Lazer, D. M., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., ...Rothschild, D. (2018). The science of fake news. Science,359(6380), 1094-1096.
Pomerantsev, P. (2019). This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. Faber & Faber.
Stengel, P. (2019). Information Wars. How We Lost the Global Battle against Disinformation and What Can We Do about It. London: Grove P
Tandoc, E. C., Lim, Z. W., & Ling, R. (2018, February). Defining "Fake News": A typologyof scholarly definitions. Digital Journalism, 6(2), 137-153.
Tucker, J. A., Guess, A., Barbera, P., Vaccari, C., Siegel, A., Sanovich, S., ... Nyhan, B. (2018). Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: A review of the scientificliterature (Tech. Rep.). Hewlett Foundation.
Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online.Science, 359(6380), 1146-1151.
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