Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures
3 January 2023
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Democracy
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Democracy
& Technology
The Programme on Democracy & Technology
Our team of social and information scientists investigate the impact of bots and automation on social media.
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Each case study analyzes qualitative, quantitative, and computational evidence from Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.
Lie Machines
Professor Philip Howard's latest book offers new insights into the world's most damaging disinformation campaigns.
About DemTech
Since 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life. Our goal is to use rigorous social science and computational methods to increase civic engagement and promote democratic values.
We use qualitative, comparative, quantitative and computational methods, and often work with academics, journalists, independent investigators, and policy makers to identify new problems and craft new research questions.
We work with many kinds of data, do international fieldwork, and engage in “real-time” social and information science, actively disseminating our findings to journalists, industry, policy makers, and the interested public.
Latest Research
The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors
24 December 2022
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram
27 May 2022
Who is afraid of fake news? Modeling risk perceptions of misinformation in 142 countries
12 April 2022
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