We've drawn inspiration from many colleagues, including Joan Donovan at the Harvard Shorenstein Center, Renée DiResta at the Stanford Internet Observatory, danah boyd at Data & Society, Alicia Wanless and the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment, and Yochai Benkler, Rob Faris, and Hal Roberts’s essential work on Network Propaganda, among many others. Assembly is collaborative by design and builds on existing research. In addition to supporting their continued work, these returning Fellows will comprise a new cohort and community of practice.Īssembly: Disinformation is situated within a growing field of scholars and practitioners tackling problems related to disinformation and our information ecosystem. These projects address the variety of topics that the Fellowship has tackled since its inception in 2017, including the future of digital security, the ethics and governance of AI, and most recently, disinformation. Over the course of the fellowship, Assembly Fellows learn and build together with a deep focus on the public interest after the fellowship, fellows are encouraged to apply their learnings to their ongoing work.ĭuring the 2020-21 year, the Assembly Fellowship will invite ongoing projects developed during the previous four years of the program to support their continued work and success. Assembly Fellows develop projects and prototypes aimed at addressing challenges related to the year’s theme. From 2019-2021, the Assembly Fellowship is focused on addressing disinformation on online platforms in previous years, the program addressed digital privacy and security, as well as the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence. THE ASSEMBLY FELLOWSHIP is a non-residential four-month fellowship for technologists, scholars, and policymakers to tackle difficult problems in technology and policy, currently in its fifth year. Additionally, members of the Assembly Forum also serve as advisors to the Assembly Fellows and Student Fellows. To share the insights gained from this exciting group, the Assembly Forum hosts live public events, produces interviews with its members (see the Berkman Klein Center’s Breakdown with Oumou Ly), and writes on topics of interest.
The Forum aims to elicit candid perspectives, surface points of agreement, make progress on hard problems, and offer recommendations where pertinent.
The Forum serves as a means to make connections between experts working on different facets of disinformation, and as a discussion forum that periodically hosts high-level briefings with special guests and conversations conducted under the Chatham House Rule on specific challenges and solutions for disinformation. national security community), the academic field, and civil society. THE ASSEMBLY FORUM is a discussion forum for senior leadership from internet platforms, the government (including the U.S. These tracks build on existing work, including three programs at the Center formerly known as the Berklett Cybersecurity project, Techtopia, and the Assembly program, a joint initiative previously run with the MIT Media Lab. The three tracks are designed to bring together cohorts of experts, professionals, and students to better understand, and actively address, complex issues of disinformation. The program is organized around three tracks: the Assembly Forum, the Assembly Student Fellowship, and the Assembly Fellowship. Assembly explores disinformation in the digital public sphere from a range of perspectives, addressing the challenges and opportunities of public and private sector responses to disinformation and related problems, including within cybersecurity, platforms and internet governance, public health, politics, elections, democracy, and public discourse.Īssembly brings together innovative approaches to cross-sectoral collaborations focused on the public interest and thoughtful interdisciplinary programming, with the Berkman Klein Center's history as a convener and long view on the problems and promise of the internet. The Berkman Klein Center launched Assembly: Disinformation in the fall of 2019 and will continue and expand this work in the 2020-2021 academic year. Some of the information on this site may be out of date, as it is not updated regularly. The three year Institute will build on the ideas, models, and networks that came out of the Assembly program and continue to bring together participants from across sectors and disciplines to develop prototypes and provocations in the public interest. After five years of Assembly, we are wrapping the current iteration of the program and transitioning to a new initiative at the Berkman Klein Center: the Institute for Rebooting Social Media.
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