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#77: Ukraine Presidential Elections and Social Media Campaigning, with Mikhail Fedorov
Mikhail Fedorov, Chief Digital Strategist for Vladimir Zelensky, joins the podcast to discuss digital campaigning ahead of the 2019 Ukrainian Presidential Elections. We discuss how Zelensky, the election’s frontrunner, is using tools like Facebook, YouTube, and Telegram to grow a support base and coordinate volunteers’ canvassing efforts. We also talk about bots, trolls, and fake...
#76: Crypto Social Networks, with Bill Ottman
Bill Ottman, Founder and CEO of Minds, discusses how decentralized social media platforms may be the response to privacy concerns surrounding big platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We talk about Minds’ peer-to-peer cryptocurrency model, how blockchain technology is used on the platform, and online censorship.
#75: Human Rights, Social Media, and Myanmar, with Ray Serrato
Ray Serrato, Social Media Analyst at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, discusses how social media data is used in the context of human rights violations. Ray breaks down the attacks against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and we discuss the role of social media in these attacks. Lastly, we talk about what the...
Featured Guests
Daniel Kreiss
Leading academic on technology-intensive campaigning. Author of “Prototype Politics.”
Karolina Wozniak
Social Media Coordinator for the European Parliament.
Matt Oczkowski
Digital Strategist for the Trump campaign. Former Head of Product at Cambridge Analytica.
Thomas Peters
Founder and CEO of uCampaign, creating mobile apps for digital campaigns and advocacy.
I am a Political and Data Scientist at the University of Copenhagen, where I specialize in social media use by politicians and citizens during elections.
I launched the Social Media and Politics Podcast to better communicate research to the public, as well as keep abreast of the rapid developments in the social media space.
To find out more about my work, visit my website.
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