Damien Spry

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

[Damien Spry @dspray]

Large data and small stories: A triangulation approach to evaluating digital diplomacy. With ⁦@KPLockyer⁩ https://t.co/EBohIjJylq

[Corneliu Bjola. @CBjola]

🚨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

https://t.co/G4nFQJ1qLa

[Damien Spry @dspray]

@CamMcTernan hoch und trocken

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is a reminder of ‘smellfungus’ (18th century): one who grumblingly finds fault in everyone and everything.

[Damien Spry @dspray]

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” https://t.co/zc2vP47SCZ

[Damien Spry @dspray]

Good news: Misinformation isn’t as powerful as feared! Bad news: Neither is information. https://t.co/UDMldNU6ph via @NiemanLab

[Noor Gillani @Noor_Gillani_]

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 ! https://t.co/gaqFUoN7tD via @ConversationEDU

[Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] @timothyjgraham]

Latest from me about Elon and misinformation on this doomed ship. Thanks @EllenCutch for the invitation to contribute to this piece https://t.co/tozLGrsL5L

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.

[Damien Spry @dspray]

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 https://t.co/tNogHmUHTk via @

[Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] @timothyjgraham]

As a wise man once said, @qutdmrc Summer School, it's the place to beeeee. you got to be there to know it

[Damien Spry @dspray]

Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators https://t.co/nR7VTxCEt1 via @CarnegieEndow

[CSS-Sydney @SICSSSydney]

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!

[Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] @timothyjgraham]

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

[Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] @antmandan]

📣 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. https://t.co/zBQseM6qTC

[Ben Nimmo @benimmo]

🚨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.
https://t.co/o1YP0dBcZa

[Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] @timothyjgraham]

For anyone interested in studying Telegram

[Damien Spry @dspray]

Super research from a scholar to watch

[Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] @timothyjgraham]

For anyone interested in studying YouTube, the ever amazing @ObservatoryTeam have released a new toolkit to collect YouTube video metadata and comments https://t.co/FdP53sf0Vx