[LOGOS] Nov 20 2pm, David Lazier, The National Internet Observatory

[Emiliano De Cristofaro]

Hi Everyone,

The next meetup will be on Wed, Nov 20, at 2pm -- please see details below.

It will be a remote presentation but we will still gather up in Bourns A171
if you want to socialize. Happy to grab a coffee before the seminar -- I'll
be hanging out at Bytes Cafe' from around 1:30pm.

Cheers,
Emiliano


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SPEAKER
Prof. David Lazer, Northeastern University

TITLE
The National Internet Observatory

WHEN/WHERE
Wed, Nov 20
Bourns A171, or
https://ucr.zoom.us/j/93797597205?pwd=k14o0hy6qk0HnLB99yYCOXCgSlMbrl.1

ABSTRACT
The National Internet Observatory (NIO) is a novel, NSF-funded, data
infrastructure, whose objective is to enable multi-platform, behavioral
research on the internet. It involves:  (1) collecting data from a
substantial (about 7000 during the 2024 election) sample of participants
over an extended period of time; and (2) providing analytic access to third
party researchers in a privacy-preserving fashion. Participants install a
browser extension and/or mobile apps to donate their online activity data
along with comprehensive survey responses. The infrastructure offers
approved researchers access to a suite of structured, parsed content data
for selected domains to enable analyses and understanding of Internet use
in the US. This is all conducted within a robust research ethics framework,
emphasizing ongoing informed consent and multiple layers, technical and
legal, of interventions to protect the values at stake in data collection,
data access, and research. This presentation will provide a brief overview
of the NIO infrastructure, the data collected, the participants, and the
researcher intake process.

BIO
David Lazer is a University Distinguished Professor of Political Science
and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, and Co-Director, NULab for
Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. Prior to coming to
Northeastern University, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy
School (1998-2009). In 2019, he was elected a fellow to the National
Academy of Public Administration. His research has been published in such
journals as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, the American Political Science Review, Organization Science, and
the Administrative Science Quarterly, and has received extensive coverage
in the media, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, the
Wall Street Journal, and CBS Evening News.
He is among the leading scholars in the world on misinformation and
computational social science and has served in multiple leadership and
editorial positions, including as a board member for the International
Network of Social Network Analysts (INSNA), reviewing editor for Science,
associate editor of Social Networks and Network Science, numerous other
editorial boards and program committees.
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