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SUMMARY:Manufacturing Consensus: Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity
DESCRIPTION:BookPeople welcomes Samuel Woolley in conversation with Josephine Lukito to celebrate the release of Manufacturing Consensus: Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity. The event will include a moderated discussion\, an audience Q&A\, and a signing line. \nEVENT INFO: \n\nThis event is free and open to the public.\n\nStart time: 7 P.M.\nRun time: 45-60 minutes\, followed by a signing line.\nLocation: The Second Floor of BookPeople\n\n\nThe author will be signing copies of their book after the speaking portion of the event.\n\nTo get a book signed\, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.\n\n\n\nEVENT GUIDELINES:\n\nSeating will be on a first-come\, first-served basis.\nThere will not be a live stream or recording available.\nBookPeople reserves the right to cancel or postpone this event if necessary.\nIf you have any other questions\, please email us at online@bookpeople.com\n\n\nemail online@bookpeople.com\n\n\nABOUT MANUFACTURING CONSENSUS: PROPAGANDA IN THE ERA OF AUTOMATION AND ANONYMITY:\nAn in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda \nUntil recently\, propaganda was a top-down\, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Samuel Woolley argues that social media has democratized today’s propaganda\, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated\, computationally enhanced influence campaign. Woolley shows how social media\, with its anonymity and capacity for automation\, allows a wide variety of groups to build the illusion of popularity through computational tools (such as bots) and human-driven efforts (such as sockpuppets—real people assuming false identities online—and partisan influencers). They use these technologies and strategies to create a bandwagon effect by bringing the content into parallel discussions with other legitimate users\, or to mold discontent for political purposes. \nDrawing on eight years of original international ethnographic research among the people who build\, combat\, and experience these propaganda campaigns\, Woolley presents an extensive view of the evolution of computational propaganda\, offers a glimpse into the future\, and suggests pragmatic responses for policy makers\, academics\, technologists\, and others. \n\nABOUT SAMUEL WOOLLEY:\nDr. Samuel Woolley is assistant professor of journalism and media\, program director of the Propaganda Research Lab\, and Knight Faculty Fellow at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth. \n\nABOUT JOSEPHINE LUKITO:\nDr. Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media in the Moody College of Communication. Jo specializes in research on malicious political language in the public sphere\, focusing on cross-platform flows of messages and frames about global economic and political issues. \n\nBy purchasing a book from BookPeople\, you are not only supporting a local\, independent business – you’re showing publishers that they should continue sending authors to BookPeople. \nThank you for supporting Samuel Woolley\, Josephine Lukito\, and your local independent bookstore!
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SUMMARY:Higher Ed Strikes & Workers’ Rights: Improving News Coverage of Labor Issues
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a free panel discussion with graduate worker organizers who will share their insights into labor issues that news coverage often overlooks. \n\nABOUT THE EVENT:\nHigher education’s growing labor movement has made local\, national\, and international headlines lately\, in part due to large-scale strikes at places like University of California at the end of 2022. Join us for a panel discussion with graduate worker organizers from universities across the United States who will share their insights into labor issues that news coverage often overlooks. Free\, virtual\, and open to journalists\, journalism students\, journalism educators\, and editors. \n\nPANELIST BIOS\nRachel Forgash is a fourth year PhD student at UCLA studying political theory and rank-and-file organizer with UAW 2865.  Rachel has been organizing with graduate workers’ unions for over 5 years. She first got involved as a department steward while attending the University of Illinois\, Chicago as a graduate student. In her time at UIC\, she helped organize a three-week strike in 2019. Since coming to UCLA\, Rachel has served as a department steward\, head steward\, Unit Chair\, and bargaining committee member with UAW 2865. In her capacity as Unit Chair and bargaining member\, she helped organize the recent 2022 UC academic workers strike in which over 40\,000 workers went on strike for six weeks. \nJoseph Guidry is a second-year astronomy PhD student worker at Boston University. Since arriving in Boston Joseph has been organizing with the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU-SEIU L509). In December BUGWU won its NLRB election in record-smashing fashion at a 98% margin. Joseph is now especially motivated to continue organizing rank and file power within BUGWU and enter bargaining. Joseph came to BU from UT Austin. While an undergrad there he worked with the grassroots movement People for PMA that won the renaming of the Physics\, Math\, and Astronomy Building. \nLauren Nelson is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin\, where she specializes in Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature\, postcolonial theory\, and the environmental humanities. She is also on the organizing committee of Underpaid@UT\, a graduate student coalition fighting for a living wage and fair working conditions. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Representations\, Feminist Modernist Studies\, Post-45 Contemporaries\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. \n\nMODERATOR BIO\nBrad Limov is a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he is also a graduate research assistant for the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement. He organizes with Underpaid@UT and the Texas State Employees Union (CWA-6186). His research examines the relationship between media production and social movements. \nINTRODUCTION BY ANITA VARMA\nAnita Varma leads the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement (University of Texas at Austin)\, where she is also an assistant professor focused on journalism ethics. She is on the board of the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California Chapter) and the advisory board of The Objective. \n 
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