Annual Research Symposium 2018: Fault Lines 3.1 Key Note Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers

Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, and founder, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, NL

Russian-style Influence Campaigning: Genres, Spread, Strategy, Detection

Richard Rogers and colleagues develop tools for the capture and study of Web data. The tools form the infrastructure of the Digital Methods Initiative, which specialises in repurposing online devices (and ‘methods of the medium’) for research that goes beyond the study of online culture only. Rogers studies, and makes use of, the adjudicative or ‘recommender’ cultures of the Web that help to determine the reputation of information as well as organizations. This presentation concerns the Russification of influence campaigning online, marking a shift from how Facebook (and other social media) are studied, from a platform for the presentation of self and the mobilisation of social causes to a ‘menacing’, disinformation machine.

RICHARD ROGERS is a professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and is Chair of New Media & Digital Culture. He is director of the Govcom.org Foundation and the Digital Methods Initiative, one of Europe’s leading Internet Studies groups, known for the development of the Issuecrawler and other software tools for the study of online data and the ‘natively digital’. Rogers also directs the Netherlands Research School for Media Studies. Previously, Rogers worked as Senior Advisor to Infodrome, the Dutch Governmental Information Society initiative. He is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press, 2004), awarded best information science book of the year by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) and Digital Methods (MIT Press, 2013), awarded outstanding book of the year by the International Communication Association (ICA). His forthcoming textbook, with Sage, is titled Doing Digital Methods. Rogers has received research grants from the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Gates Foundation and the European Commission, among other institutions.

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