This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96312687337. In this talk, Dr. Anton Sobolev will unpack the technology of the Russian government propaganda and manipulation of online discussions, and establishes the causal effect of government interventions on the online behavior of social media users. Using a novel database on the activity of the state-sponsored online propagandists masquerading…
The Art of Political Indoctrination PROPAGANDA The Art of Political Indoctrination in Italy, 1902-1950 Works from the Fondazione Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Curated by Nicola Lucchi, CUNY Queens College NYU Advisors Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Valentina Castellani; Ara Merjian Opening: March 4, 2020 6:00pm Exhibition viewing 6:30pm Panel Discussion featuring the curator and advisors 7:30pm Reception On view through April 17, 2020 Mon-Fri 10-6 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò…
Featuring Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama. The twentieth century witnessed the advent of modern propaganda. Many associate propaganda with the Nazi regime, with its vitriolic efforts to conjure militant hyper-nationalism and anti-Semitism. But far more pervasive and long lasting was the propaganda that characterized the Cold War that followed. Propagandists from the Soviet Union and the United States mobilized new…