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<P><STRONG>co-organizer:</STRONG> <STRONG>Susan McGregor</STRONG>, Columbia, School of Journalism<BR><STRONG>co-organizer:</STRONG> <STRONG>Chris Wiggins</STRONG>, Columbia, School of Engineering</P>
<P>As open communication platforms become trusted sources of reality, we anticipate a future dominated not only by targeted digital battles for attention but for beliefs, unconstrained by consensus or veracity. In this workshop we hope to move from sharing illustrative prior case studies of propaganda, coordinated trolling, or fake news to dynamics & impact, such as:</P>
<P><EM>The new scale or capability afforded by technology; why is this the same as or different from the prior century's marketing & propaganda?</EM></P>
<P><EM>The role of solutions: what if anything can be done to defend, inoculate, or otherwise counter reality jamming</EM></P>
<P><EM>What communities or groups are disparately impacted?</EM></P>
<P>A definition by comparison: Consider "culture jamming": playful attempts, often in satire, to combine media, or to communicate digitally, in ways that amuse, delight, shock, or inform. Reality Jamming differs both in scale (which is easier to attain now that communications are software, e.g., social media marketing tools), but also in that rather than intending to hoax or satire, actors are actually trying to use a trusted channel to convince targets to believe something false, fabricated, misattributed, or otherwise unreal. That is, the goal is to saturate, disinform, or otherwise jam what would otherwise be reliable sources of truth the targets digitally encounter.</P>
<P><STRONG>Panelists:</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Joan Donovan</STRONG>, Data + Society<BR><STRONG>Matt Jones</STRONG>, Columbia Department of History<BR><STRONG>Jonathan Albright</STRONG>, Columbia Journalism<BR><STRONG>Sam Thielman</STRONG>, journalist at Talking Points Memo</P>
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