Samuel Woolley
Samuel Woolley is an American media studies scholar and expert on computational propaganda and misinformation.[1][2][3] Woolley was a founder of the Computational Propaganda Research Project at the University of Oxford in 2013, and the Institute for the Future's Digital Intelligence Lab. As of 2025, he is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh in their Department of Communication, and holds the University's William S. Dietrich II Endowed Chair In Disinformation Studies.[4]
Woolley's books include The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth (2020)[5][6] and Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity (2023).[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ Manjoo, Farhad (2017-05-31). "How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ McMillan, Robert; Hernandez, Daniela (2019-02-20). "Pinterest Blocks Vaccination Searches in Move to Control the Conversation". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ "Digital disinformation is destroying society but we can fight back". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ "About". Samuel Woolley. 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ Broekaert, Clara (2023-04-16). "The reality game: how the next wave of technology will break the truth". Intelligence and National Security. doi:10.1080/02684527.2022.2068276. ISSN 0268-4527.
- ^ THE REALITY GAME | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Chapman-Sánchez, Nildy M. (2024-09-01). "Samuel Woolley, Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity". Newspaper Research Journal. 45 (3): 387–388. doi:10.1177/07395329241262929. ISSN 0739-5329.
- ^ Sundahl, Anne-Mette (2024-02-01). "Book Review". Information Polity. 29 (1): 113–115. doi:10.3233/IP-249001. ISSN 1570-1255.
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