Denizen of the political web. AI, democracy, & digital migration. Not tweeting until the Academic API is reformed. Harvard Research affiliate @Kennedy_School
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@zachbastick hello, thank you for your intellectually honest writeup referencing NAME.SPACE v. Network Solutions
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7 Oct 2021
Research spotlight
Double Lockdown: the Effects of Digital Exclusion on Undocumented Immigrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic
By @zachbastick and our Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher @mlauremallet
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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9 Jun 2021
I enjoyed chairing this session on the futures of digital government and look forward to the many other great sessions to come at #dgo2021!
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Zach Bastick retweeted
8 Apr 2021
Five minutes of exposure to fake news can unconsciously alter a person’s behavior, study finds psypost.org/2021/04/five-min…
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14 Jan 2021
Interested in AI & democracy? Digital politics? Governance, disinformation, and bots? Submit your paper to our track (TRACK 6. Beyond Bureaucracy: Participatory Online Politics and the Future of E-democracy) by Jan 20 - and see you at in Omaha in June! dgsociety.org/dgo-2021
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7 Dec 2020
Happy to announce that my paper on #disinformation was just published in Computers in Human Behavior! 📰😃😃 doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.1…
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7 Dec 2020
5/ In short, this opens a whole bag of issues that we really are not that well equipped to deal with. So maybe we should start thinking about: Which behaviors can be covertly manipulated? How? How long can these effects last? How should we counter it?
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7 Dec 2020
6/ This is a whole load of anxiety for those interested in #fakenews (at least for me). But having more insight on this would at least help us to know where we stand.
27 Jan 2020
Scholars of digital democracy: Just a reminder that the deadline to submit to our #dgo2020 track on disruptive government tech is this Friday. We’d be happy to see you in Seoul no better time to cram than January! beyondbureaucracy.org/
Zach Bastick retweeted
28 Oct 2018
Maduro one side, Bolsonaro the other, we in Guyana really lucky eh
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28 Oct 2018
On Halloween, the MIT Media Lab is letting you control someone’s life by voting on their actions. The digital era blurs the line between individual autonomy and the collective rule - thanks @beeme_mit for reminding us of how scary that is!
28 Oct 2018
Pretty impressed that my e-democracy undergrad students ran a Twitter survey (on their own initiative) and got 700 responses @EspolLille
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Zach Bastick retweeted
4 Oct 2018
Call for papers from @ESPOL_Lab researcher @zachbastick and colleagues for the 'Beyond Bureaucracy' track at #dgo2019 on “#Ethics & New Models of #Governance”. (Submission by January 15,2019) More information: bb19.beyondbureaucracy.org @EspolLille
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27 Jul 2018
Can’t wait for this to happen with all micro-targeting campaigns. Super interesting in itself but necessary for democracy.
27 Jul 2018
#Facebook has released all targeted ads used by @LeaveEUOfficial during the #EUref.
They used claims which suggest the entire Turkish population is heading for the UK, that the #EU wants to 'kill our cuppa', & that the EU stops the UK from protecting Polar Bears.
Sources Below:
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27 Jul 2018
We grow bad writers at universities by fostering a genre best known as "student bullshit". Formal education refines that into a highbrow lexical style that you can use to computer-generate fake papers.
26 Jul 2018
You are not stupid. Academic writing is hard to understand because most of it is bad writing. x.com/prof_nch/status/102155…
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