[Qtcg] Fwd: [dasci-seminarios] DaSCI Seminar - This Week - Sandra González-Bailón - Social and algorithmic choices in the transmission of (mis)information

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From: Pablo Mesejo Santiago Subject: [dasci-seminarios] DaSCI Seminar - This Week - Sandra González-Bailón - Social and algorithmic choices in the transmission of (mis)information Date: 7. April 2025 at 09:35:58 CEST To: dasci@listas.ugr.es, dasci-seminarios@listas.ugr.es Cc: "Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra"

Dear DaSCI members,

Below you can find the information related to the DaSCI seminar which will take place this Wednesday (April 9th 2025).

Speaker: Sandra González-Bailón Title: Social and algorithmic choices in the transmission of (mis)information Online Room: https://oficinavirtual.ugr.es/redes/SOR/SALVEUGR/accesosala.jsp?IDSALA=22997... Password: 867285 Date: 09/04/2025 Time: 16:00 (Spanish time)

The following link can allow you to directly schedule this event, and save all this information, in your Google Calendar: https://calendar.app.google/cQwuc4ccJjZ2dJHX7 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://calendar.app.google/cQwuc4ccJjZ2dJHX7__;...

We encourage PhD students to participate in these events. In this regard, we will share a registration form during the talk, so students can register and certify their attendance to the corresponding PhD program.

As usual, the seminar will last around 1h (45 min. talk + 15 min. of questions).

Abstract: The circulation of information requires prior exposure: we cannot disseminate what we do not see. In online platforms, information exposure results from a complex interaction between social and algorithmic forms of curation that shapes what people see and what they engage with. In this talk, I will discuss recent research investigating the social and technological factors that shape what information we encounter online and how it diffuses from user to user. I will also discuss why it is important we adopt a systematic approach to mapping the information environment as a whole – this approach is needed to capture aggregate characteristics that go unnoticed if we only focus on individuals. Networks, I will argue, offer measurement instruments that can help us map that landscape and identify pockets of problematic content as well as the types of audiences more likely to engage with it.

Short Bio: Sandra González-Bailón is the Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, and Director of the Center for Information Networks and Democracy (cind.asc.upenn.edu https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://cind.asc.upenn.edu/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RMVan...). She also has a secondary appointment in the Department of Sociology at Penn. Prior to joining Penn, she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (2008-2013). She completed her doctoral degree in Nuffield College (University of Oxford) and her undergraduate studies at the University of Barcelona. Her research agenda lies at the intersection of computational social science and political communication. Her applied research looks at how online networks shape exposure to information, with implications for how we think about political engagement, mobilization dynamics, information diffusion, and the consumption of news. Her articles have appeared in journals like PNAS, Science, Nature, Political Communication, the Journal of Communication, and Social Networks, among others. She is the author of the book Decoding the Social World (MIT Press, 2017) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication (OUP, 2020).

We hope this talk will be of interest to you, and we look forward to seeing you the day after tomorrow.

Best, Pablo