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Title:

Understanding Lies, Deception, and Truthiness in Social Media

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Organizer:
danah boyd, Microsoft Research / Harvard Berkman Center
Description:
If you take most social media profiles at face value, you might assume everyone's from Lake Wobegon. Profiles are often filled with inaccurate (or perhaps deceptive) content. This panel will examine how, why, and when people lie and who (if anyone) they might be trying to deceive.
Questions
Answered:
  1. How, why and when do people provide inaccurate information online?
  2. What are people's intentions and goals when providing inaccurate information online?
  3. How do these practices differ across race, gender, and age?
  4. How do these practices differ between online dating sites and social network sites?
  5. How do privacy concerns shape people's practices with regard to inaccurate information?
  6. How do legal structures like COPPA and TOSes motivate people to lie?
  7. Why do developers need to understand people's motivations for providing inaccurate information?
  8. How can developers work with users to balance their goals and the sites' goal for accurate information?
  9. How is marketing and advertising affected by the practices of deception?
  10. When is inaccurate information advantageous?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Community / Online Community, Online Relationships, Social Issues, Social Networking, User Generated Content
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Dave Gray
on 17/8/09
Tell me more so I can smoke out those damn liars!
Gina Trapani
on 18/8/09
+1
Lonnie Stonitsch
on 18/8/09
Lying offline, lying online, same dynamics, different medium, which magnifies and distorts and has special circumstances. Lying as social lubricant.
heather gold
on 18/8/09
Worthwhile stuff as always danah. Wait. Is this a social site? Am I lying?

(Nope. I am a terrible terrible liar.)
Dick Hardt
on 18/8/09
Interesting to hear how you will tell which data is true and which data is false if it is all gathered online ... :-)
Leah Jones
on 19/8/09
I saw Danah speak at BlogHer this year and immediately wanted to start working on a PhD so I could study with her. She should keynote and not just have a panel, but since this isn't the Keynote Picker, I'll just say +1!
Brian Baresch
on 19/8/09
Well, I *am* working on a Ph.D. so I can study with her (liberally reworded from "so I can have a job like hers"). Looking forward to SXSW.
Shaping Youth
on 19/8/09
The whole faux pandemic/youth m.o. appeals: The whys/hows/workarounds, virtual stage, privacy concerns; the works...danah has always brought level-headed reasoning with intellectual chops to the conversation, and I don't miss her take on much of anything. +1 with an exclamation point.
Pat Aufderheide
on 20/8/09
Can't wait to hear some clear-headed thinking on this topic! Great organizer!
Faye Butler
on 21/8/09
Great idea.
Julie Tereshchuk
on 22/8/09
As always, thought-provoking ideas/questions from danah. (can't wait to hear what folks have to say about #10...)
Jen Bekman
on 22/8/09
danah! This'll be so good, obvs. (And that's no lie.)
Gwen Bell
on 2/9/09
Will be at this talk if (when) it makes.
Baratunde Thurston
on 2/9/09
i will go to any event at which danah boyd is speaking
Jon Pincus
on 4/9/09
yeah what Baratunde said
ryan junell
on 4/9/09
word... less liars...
free online games
on 24/10/09
i will go to any event at which danah boyd is speaking
Convert MTS Files
on 27/10/09
This would be a great asset to your programming schedule!
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on 22/11/09
Tell me more so I can smoke out those damn liars!
anti login
on 28/11/09
Worthwhile stuff as always danah. Wait. Is this a social site? Am I lying?

(Nope. I am a terrible terrible liar.)
MTS Video Converter
on 29/11/09
You know I can't wait to hear about this topic!
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