Lunch and Learn with Dr. Alexei Abrahams April 15, 11:30-1:00 in SJMC 318
Dr. Abrahams researches information manipulation and cybersecurity using big data and social science methods. His current interest is the design of digital observatories to facilitate monitoring of and investigation into the health of media ecosystems. His research has been published at outlets including Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Political Science Research & Methods, and International Journal of Communications. My work has also contributed to reporting at the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Aljazeera, Reuters, and CBC News.Dr. Abrahams is currently the digital lead for the Canadian Media Ecosystems Observatory project at McGill University's Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. He was previously a research fellow with Joan Donovan's TaSC team at Harvard. Prior to that he was a research fellow at the Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, an Open Technology Fund information controls research fellow, and a research fellow at Princeton University's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, the Middle East Initiative (Harvard Kennedy School - Belfer Center), and the University of California at San Diego's Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation. He holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University (2015) and often consult for the World Bank.
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