Dr Emma Briant - Researching Cambridge Analytica: : taking on the digital influence industry
Tue 25 Aug
|https://youtu.be/Uuc8HABVWoU
Dr Briant examines the problematic complicity of academia in the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal
Time & Location
25 Aug 2020, 20:00
https://youtu.be/Uuc8HABVWoU
About the Event
Our third and final event of the 2020 Fringe. All talks are online, join us live at the link below and contribute with questions and comments. https://youtu.be/Uuc8HABVWoU
Dr Emma Briant - Researching Cambridge Analytica: taking on the digital influence industry In 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its unethical parent company SCL Group catapulted to international notoriety with far-reaching consequences. Their purchase of millions of Facebook users’ data around the world triggered the second scandal of Facebook’s complicity in monetising personal data. Yet the influence industry of which CA and SCL were a part remains under-researched - academic responses remain reactive, focused on platforms and lacking in self-reflection for academics’ role in the scandal. War on Terror–era legislation enabled a global influence industry to weaponize our digital world for the advancement of profit, power, and political influence.
Powerful actors harnessed the growth of social media, turning the dream of a free internet…