Elizabeth Dubois on Political bots: Understanding communication strategies using automation and AI

This winter, the Atlantic Human Rights Centre, St. Thomas University's Department of Human Rights, St. Thomas University's Department of Journalism and Communications, the NB Media Co-op and RAVEN invite the public to the Human Rights & the Media Lecture Series. We will hear from scholars of the media and law, media makers and grassroots activists on how our media landscape is changing. We will hear about what they are doing to make this media landscape a more safe, just and equal space.

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, will deliver the lecture, "Political bots: Understanding communication strategies using automation and AI," on Tuesday, February 1 at 5:30 pm (Atlantic) by Zoom.

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa where she runs the Pol Comm Tech Lab. Her work examines political uses of digital media including media manipulation, citizen engagement, and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Dubois hosts the Wonks and War Rooms podcast where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Find her on Twitter @lizdubois and at www.polcommtech.ca or check out her latest edited book, Citizenship in a Connected Canada.
Register for the Zoom link here: https://zoom.us/.../tJErdOCpqDoqH9CYmTb7IyqXUBUK2mV7HubY