Taking place at CEDLA | Roetersstraat 33, Room 2.02
This seminar – which will be hosted by the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation of the University of Amsterdam – is part of the project 'It’s Election Year Everywhere: The Digital Politics of Elections and Electioneering Amongst Brazilians Abroad', made possible by a Global Digital Cultures Seed Grant.
How do digital platforms shape electoral politics, processes, and outcomes? What platform affordances matter for how voters consume, circulate, and dispute political content (dis)information? And how can different national contexts, disciplinary traditions, and methodological approaches build on each other to deepen our collective understandings of how digital and electoral politics intersect? These are the questions that anchor this afternoon-long seminar, which will gather researchers who have been engaging the digital politics of electoral seasons and communication from different corners of the social sciences and humanities.
Chairs:
Dr. Carolina Frossard, Postdoctoral Researcher in Geography, Planning, and International Development, UvA
Prof. Kees Koonings, Professor of Brazilian Studies, UvA
Dr. Imke Harbers, Associate Professor in Political Science, UvA
Confirmed speakers:
Dr. Bharath Ganesh, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, University of Groningen
Dr. Marloes Geboers, Lecturer-Researcher in Visual Methodologies, HvA
Dr. Neeraj Prasad, Assistant Professor in Political Science, UvA
Dr. Yatun Sastramidjaja, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, UvA
Prof. Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, UvA
Prof. Rivke Jaffe, Professor of Urban Geographies, UvA
Dr. Ursula Daxecker, Associate Professor in Political Science, UvA
Date:
December 9, 2022, 14.00-17.30, followed by drinks
Venue:
CEDLA | Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
Roetersstraat 33, Room 2.02
Amsterdam
Full Programme
Time | Presentations | Discussants |
14.00-14.05 |
Welcome by Barbara Hogenboom, Director of CEDLA/UvA |
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14.05-15.00 |
It’s election year everywhere: The digital politics of elections and electioneering amongst Brazilians abroad, Carolina Frossard (GPIO/UvA) Buzzing and bombing: organized cyber troops within – and beyond – Indonesia’s electoral campaign industry, Yatun Sastramidjaja (Anthropology/UvA |
Kees Koonings (CEDLA/UvA & UU) |
15.00-16.00 |
The Politics of Social Media Manipulation, Richard Rogers (Media Studies/UvA) Source-sharing Dynamics and Problematic Information on Post-Trump Twitter, Marloes Geboers (Visual Methodologies/HvA) |
Rivke Jaffe (GPIO/UvA) |
16.00-17.00 |
Propaganda as a Service: Political Geographies of Digital Advertising and Disinformation on Facebook, Bharath Ganesh (Media Studies/University of Groningen) Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India, Ursula Daxecker (Political Science/UvA), Hanne Fjelde (Peace & Conflict Research, University of Uppsala), and Neeraj Prasad (Political Science/UvA) |
Imke Harbers (Political Science/UvA) |
17.00-17.30 |
Discussion | |
17.30 | Drinks |