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A reminder of today’s talk. Best wishes Rob. We are very pleased to announce that Tim Weninger, Frank M. Friedmann Collegiate Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, will talk this Friday at 2pm. The talk will be hosted by Nishanth Sastry. Hoping to see you all on Friday! When: Friday 4th February, 2pm Where: On Zoom (Full invitation details below): https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/6839809496?pwd=Qk5yR3VTZnNJeldYMzgwRnZaOUZIdz09 Title: Drowning in Data: AI Triage Systems to Aid Human Rights Workers Abstract: Deriving meaning from the massive amounts of social media content posted online is an increasingly important task. From supporting content moderation to content categorization efforts, researchers are designing novel algorithms - and even entire systems - to learn if technology can reasonably address these needs. Here we’ll explore research aimed at two very different contexts that share a goal: deriving intuitions from social media. We’ll discuss an approach to answering a persistent question on Reddit: Am I the Asshole? Second, a near real time system aimed at early identification of trending misinformation, MEWS (Misinformation Early Warning System). Headshot: https://timweninger.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/me_2019.jpeg Bio: Tim Weninger is the Frank M. Friedmann Collegiate Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 2013. His research in social media and artificial intelligence looks to better understand how humans create and consume information, especially in online social systems. He has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation as well as research grants from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the John Templeton Foundation. He currently leads a USAID-sponsored program advancing media literacy for new digital arrivals. Rob Procter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/6839809496?pwd=Qk5yR3VTZnNJeldYMzgwRnZaOUZIdz09 Meeting ID: 683 980 9496 Passcode: 9M2Jwi One tap mobile: +16465588656,,6839809496#,,,,*625283# US Dial by your location: +1 646 558 8656 US Find your local number: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/u/aswdPzj8j _________________ Rob Procter Turing Faculty Fellow Room 2.32 MSB Department of Computer Science University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel: 024 7657 3783 Twitter: @robnprocter www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/rob_procter<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/rob_procter> https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=IH2TPkkAAAAJ&hl=en Halfpenny, P. & Procter, R. (Eds.) Innovations in digital research methods. Sage. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/9781446203095 www.digitalwildfire.org<http://www.digitalwildfire.org> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SOCIALDATASCIENCE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SOCIALDATASCIENCE&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SOCIALDATASCIENCE, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/