@dspray

social media research / diplomacy / influence operations/ information warfare. former @unisa

 Adelaide, South Australia
linkedin.com/in/damienspry/
Joined March 2009
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Large data and small stories: A triangulation approach to evaluating digital diplomacy. With ⁦@KPLockyer⁩ link.springer.com/article/10…
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Corneliu Bjola.@CBjola4 Jan 2024
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy is out now! 📚 34 chapters written by top experts in the field abt how digital technologies are transforming diplomacy 🚀 #DigitalDiplomacy #DiplomacyInTheDigitalAge amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handbook…
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Susie Dent
@susie_dent20 Feb 2023
Word of the day is a reminder of ‘smellfungus’ (18th century): one who grumblingly finds fault in everyone and everything.
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2 million-person, campaign-wide field experiment shows how digital advertising affects voter turnout:”Our results indicate that differential mobilization effects of even large digital advertising campaigns in presidential elections are likely to be modest” nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Good news: Misinformation isn’t as powerful as feared! Bad news: Neither is information. nie.mn/3GRwaJH via @NiemanLab
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Hey Twitter! Here's a handy (and ironic) explainer on the safest way to leave Twitter as it seemingly gets run into the ground. Thanks @timothyjgraham @antmandan ! theconversation.com/thinking… via @ConversationEDU

Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the right way to do it

With the World Cup under way (bringing in more traffic) and more than 1,000 employees having reportedly resigned, concerns for the platform’s future are warranted.

theconversation.com
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Latest from me about Elon and misinformation on this doomed ship. Thanks @EllenCutch for the invitation to contribute to this piece abc.net.au/news/2022-11-18/f…

CheckMate: Twitter 'flooded' with misinformation during US midterms, analyst says

The US midterms showed how differently Twitter is handling misinformation under Elon Musk. Experts are concerned. 

abc.net.au
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Susie Dent
@susie_dent16 Nov 2022
Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.
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A growing body of research suggests human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — is strikingly similar to collective behavior seen in nature. | @noUpside in @NoemaMag noemamag.com/how-online-mobs… via @
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As a wise man once said, @qutdmrc Summer School, it's the place to beeeee. you got to be there to know it
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Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators carnegieendowment.org/2022/1… via @CarnegieEndow
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CSS-Sydney@SICSSSydney20 Oct 2022
The first SICSS-Festival video is up! Be sure to check out @timothyjgraham's workshop on studying online influence operations, with videos from other events coming soon!
SSSHARC at Sydney@SSSHARC20 Oct 2022
📢Workshop Recording from @SICSSSydney @timothyjgraham demonstrates new and emerging methods for studying online influence operations. This is the first in the series of 7 @SICSSSydney workshops with more coming soon! 👉Follow us for more @SSSHARC 📽️youtu.be/afvpi1hJEVI
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This should be getting far more attention. Wikipedia is core knowledge infrastructure for the liberal democratic world order—this theatre of information warfare is a battle for reality
Carl Miller@carljackmiller17 Oct 2022
New research from us is out today! It's on information warfare on Wikipedia about the invasion of Ukraine This is our first foray from CASM/@ISDglobal to try to find on Wikipedia what we track across social media: coordinated, covert attempts to manipulate our info ecologies
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📣 All ECRs and PhDs, the @qutdmrc summer school has just been announced! Indicative dates are the 7-10th Feb so block out that week in your diary and be ready for the EOI round which will be out shortly. research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/res…
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Ben Nimmo@benimmo27 Sep 2022
🚨BREAKING🚨 @Meta took down two covert influence ops: Big one from Russia🇷🇺 targeting Europe with spoofed media websites like the Guardian and Spiegel First one from China 🇨🇳 to focus on both sides of domestic US 🇺🇸 politics and Czech-China relations. about.fb.com/news/2022/09/re…

Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China and Russia

We took down two unconnected networks in China and Russia for violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior.

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For anyone interested in studying Telegram
Prose Intelligence@ProseLtd25 Sep 2022
Telepathy 2.1.10 is now live. New additions: • Automated translation • Chat list export • Bug fixes $ pip3 install --upgrade telepathy github.com/jordanwildon/tele…
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Super research from a scholar to watch
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For anyone interested in studying YouTube, the ever amazing @ObservatoryTeam have released a new toolkit to collect YouTube video metadata and comments github.com/QUT-Digital-Obser…

GitHub - QUT-Digital-Observatory/youte: Command-line utility to help researchers collect video...

Command-line utility to help researchers collect video metadata from Youtube API - QUT-Digital-Observatory/youte

github.com
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In case it’s helpful to anyone, I’ve developed a free software toolkit to detect coordinated astroturfing campaigns github.com/QUT-Digital-Obser… . Grateful to the @arc_gov_au for funding this as part of my DECRA project

GitHub - QUT-Digital-Observatory/coordination-network-toolkit: A small command line tool and set of...

A small command line tool and set of functions for studying coordination networks in Twitter and other social media data. - QUT-Digital-Observatory/coordination-network-toolkit

github.com
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