Five students (Megi Mecolli, Jamie Hendrickson, Claire O'Brien, Joe Morrell, and Allison Wheeler) from the Global Informatics Seminar: “Narrative AI, Media Manipulation and Election Interference,” developed with the support of Informatics, the European Union Center (EUC) and the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center (REEEC) will discuss their experiences via YouTube Live in a classroom which incorporated a semester-long table-top role-playing game in which imaginary countries trade and compete while interfering in each other’s elections through media manipulations. Using a multi-app online version of an imagined world, including simulated FB-like social media site, students ruthlessly pursue their national interests through the use of sock puppets, astroturf-lobbying, innuendo, public spectacles, and other techniques of computational propganda, much as these manipulative techniques are being used in our own world.
This is part of the Playful by Design's Fall 2020 Symposium.
