Voters For Sale? A Brief History of Election Manipulation in the Social Media Age

How will elections of the social media age be described in history books? Are there steps we can take to defend our democracy in a time of disinformation?

Join Professor L.K. Bertram from the AI and Humanities Lab at the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative on Thursday, September 26, 2024 (7:00-8:00 PM ET, live online and streaming on demand) as she provides an accessible and surprising introduction to the history of social media voter targeting and manipulation. Learn about the business of digital election interference and explore its power and influence over campaigns in our globally connected world.

This hands-on lecture examines the roots of modern voter manipulation and the hard-to-detect professional influence campaigns many of us face today. Drawing from expert research in the field, it will share handy tools for identifying disinformation campaigns and explore social media regulation policies that critics believe could help protect the future of democratic elections.

Registration is now open for this free virtual event.

This lecture is brought to you by the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, a tri-campus research initiative that bridges the humanities’ emphasis on power and culture, with the tools and analysis of digital technology, to forge a new paradigm of humanities scholarship. The field enables new research questions and places anti-racist, accessible, decolonial, feminist, and queer/trans/non-binary work at its core, understanding our current historic shift in digital technology as an opportunity for social and political transformation.