Social Media and the Post-COVID-19 Landscape

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As the pandemic has unfolded, social media has once again demonstrated how it can inform – or mislead – by encouraging the spread of literally deadly information. Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy moderate a discussion on the implications of misinformation from political, social and engineering perspectives – and how it could alter the course of social media. In partnership with the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences' Dornsife Dialogues series.

The panelists include:

Kristina Lerman, Research associate professor of computer science and principal scientist at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute
Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant professor of research preventive medicine and director of the Social Media Analytics Lab at Keck School of Medicine of USC.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Election R&D from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
0:11.5	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists
0:17.6	from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot-button issues, where we
0:21.9	respect each other, and we respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:30.5	Welcome. I'm glad you can join us for this week's DornSife Dialogues. I hope everyone's
0:36.1	been enjoying the series as much as I have.
0:38.9	It's been another really difficult week. And before I start into things today, I just want to say
0:43.7	to our entire Dornsife extended Dornsife community that we are all here to support you in any way
0:49.9	that we can. Today's discussion will touch on several of the most complex issues of the moment,
0:57.4	from COVID to politics to the protests happening around the nation.
1:02.5	And all of these issues have found a real-time battleground for communication and debate on
1:07.4	social media.
1:08.9	It is now with the core of debates about misinformation and
1:12.4	First Amendment rights, with some platforms adding warnings or removing messages that provoke
1:17.4	violence or conflict with the facts. And all of this will undoubtedly affect the November
1:24.0	election and the national dynamic that leads up to the election.
1:28.4	So to talk about that with you today, we have a terrific panel of excerpts from across the
1:32.8	USC community who's going to help us unpack some of the ways that we expect this might play out.
1:38.3	Our moderators are back by popular demand.
1:41.1	Bob and Mike Murphy, our co-directors of the USC Dornseif Center for the Political
1:45.6	Future, headlined the very first of our online Dornsafe dialogues, and it is always terrific to have
1:52.0	them here with us. Bob Schrum is the Warshaw, professor of practical politics and an accomplished
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