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SUMMARY:Social Camouflage: From Face-to-Face to Digital Deception - Profes
 sor Christena Nippert-Eng\, Indiana University
DTSTART:20170323T170000Z
DTEND:20170323T183000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nIn this talk\, Dr Christena Nippert-Eng will pre
 sent work in the early stages of development that will be her focus while 
 being a visiting Fellow at CRASSH over the next two weeks.  The work will 
 build on her interests in privacy and security\, social behaviour across s
 pecies\, and the current U.S. political landscape.  She will begin the tal
 k by introducing her efforts to date in developing a grammar of camouflage
  behaviours\, motivations\, and intentions across species.  Moving from th
 e face-to-face realm\, she will then examine camouflage behaviours online\
 , zeroing in more specifically on the foundational assumptions and practic
 es that foster the success of fake news and false facts.  Like all camoufl
 age behaviours\, these depend not only on how well engineered the deceptio
 n is but also on the target’s need/desire to believe and (immediately or
  eventually) act on what is perceived.  She will conclude with some though
 ts on digital deception – and perhaps its exposure -- as a relatively ne
 w source of socio-political-economic power.\n\n*About the speaker*\n\nDr C
 hristena Nippert-Eng is a sociologist and Professor of Informatics at Indi
 ana University Bloomington.  Her scholarly interests include cognitive and
  formal sociology\, everyday life\, privacy\, culture\, technology\, user-
 centered design\, and multi-species research.  She is currently a Visiting
  Fellow on the _Technology and Democracy_ project.  Her most recent books 
 are: \n\n\n* _Watching Closely: a Guide to Ethnographic Observation_ - an 
 exercise-based approach to increasing one's skill set in envisioning\, col
 lecting\, and re-presenting observation-based data. (OUP\, 2015) \n\n* _Go
 rillas Up Close_  - a beautifully photographed book about western lowland 
 gorillas in zoos and the wild\, in collaboration with John Dominski\, Fred
  Grier\, Jim Horner\, Eugene Limb\, Sally Limb\, and Miguel Martinez.  (He
 nry Holt Books for Young Readers\, 2016)
LOCATION: Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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