Introducing our multi-episode investigation on the use and proliferation of AI in our contemporary politics, our guests give us the information required to delve into one of the most important subjects in digital culture today.
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Twitter and Tear Gas is one of the best studies done so far on the use of social media and its role in political upheaval and protest, our guest Angie Weitz delves deep in explaining to us the academic work done on the subject of our investigation
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The Brazilian case study is one which is just as contemporary and is on par with the Cambridge Analytica scandal which revolved around the American elections and produced the same results: the election of a far-right candidate to the country's highest office. This episode we look at the campaign which helped Brazil's bolsanaro win his presidency, and factors behind it.
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The Iraqi case study presented is one that is both pressing and unique in our ability to analyze its beginnings, its fruition and its consequences. Looking at Data gathered by an expert on digital media's use in political repression, we can have a bird's eye view at the protests in Iraq, and the media campaigns which are being waged in order to influence the streets of Baghdad.
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The case study of Chile is another interesting political event and protest which we were given the opportunity to look at from its start to its currently unfolding political realities. We decided to survey a group of university students in Chile, a major group active in the protests, to see if they believed they had encountered what they could consider or suspect to be a social media campaign waged through AI and bots.
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We conclude our investigation with a wrap up of the case studies we have discussed over the past weeks, and provide our guests with the opportunity to give their own personal reflections on our investigation, the subject of AI and politics, as well as what they believe is important in terms of the future of social media and its role in our contemporary political happenings

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