Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
Date: Weds, Feb 24
Time: 1200 ET
Cost: Free
Type: NSGS Members - access is via Herd Mentality
Details: Gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation online is sprawling, and even assessing it in the broadest terms presents obstacles in detection and analysis. As this report indicates, abusers’ malign creativity means addressing this problem will not be easy. Dedicated, collective efforts by platforms, policymakers, and employers can elevate this from its misidentification as a special interest issue to a question of the right to equal participation in democracy and public life without fear of abuse and harassment.
Nina Jankowicz studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Bloomsbury/IBTauris). Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and others. She is a frequent television and radio commentator on disinformation and Russian and Eastern European affairs. Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Ms. Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown.
Jillian Hunchak is a research analyst who specializes in far-right extremism in French- and English-language contexts. She currently carries out research at Moonshot CVE and Insight Threat Intelligence, and has completed internships at the Organization for the Prevention of Violence (OPV) and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). She holds an MA from King’s College London in Terrorism, Security and Society.
Alexandra Pavliuc is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute who studies the spread of disinformation online. She is a researcher on the Alternative News Networks Project (part of the Computational Propaganda Project at the OII). Her work has been published by Defence Strategic Communications and featured on CBC News. Ms. Pavliuc holds degrees in Data Science and Professional Communication from City, University of London and Ryerson University.