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MASTERS: FINDING STORIES IN INTERNET DATA WITH LAM THUY VO

Innovation Hear about social media’s ever-changing nature from someone at the frontline of data-driven storytelling.

Hear about social media’s ever-changing nature from someone at the frontline of data-driven storytelling.

BuzzFeed New York’s senior reporter, Lam Thuy Vo will share her experience exploring patterns in the social web to explore the human story behind the data and what that can reveal about bias, hatred online, misinformation, fake news and information segregation on a huge scale.

Drawing from her recently published book, as well as her decade-long work as a journalist, Lam will showcase a series of case studies for a deep dive into data, storytelling on the web and how we can become better informed about our own data is being used to inform human behaviour.

 

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Session

  • Date & Time

    13:30 – 14:15, Sunday 1 March 2020

  • Venue

  • Speaker

    Lam Thuy Vo

  • Moderator

    Kylie Boltin

  • Session Producer

    Kylie Boltin