social media
SOMA consortium scales up anti-disinformation efforts across EU Member States
Horizon-2020-supported Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis links academic, technological and media expertise to combat disinformation (SOMA).
George Markopoulos : “We trawl through social media because that is where the most heated debates are happening right now.”
George Markopoulos is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the School of Philosophy National and Kapodistrian, at the University of Athens. He participated in the ESMH event Virality and influencers in digital communication on 3 April in the European Parliament.
ESMH : Science and Practice of Virality on Social Media
What drives virality on social media platforms? And how the European message can be conveyed more effectively?
Kristof Varga : “Content does not make things viral. People do.”
Kristof Varga is a Consultant on policy development and social media and formerly Director of the Public Division at Bakamo.Social. He participated in the ESMH event Virality and influencers in digital communication on 3 April 2019 in the European Parliament.
Michael Bossetta : “We need more research into what are the best technological structures to facilitate meaningful dialogue”
Michael Bossetta is social media expert, political and data scientist at the University of Copenhagen and podcaster. He participated in the ESMH event Virality and influencers in digital communication on 3 April in the European Parliament.
Virality and influencers in digital communication
How technologies can carry and amplify messages, becoming viral? Who are the so-called Influencers and how they use the social media to increase the number of their Followers. Join the event of the European Science-Media Hub on 3 April in the European Parliament in Brussels.
The ESMH kick-off event : Communicating Science via Social Media June 27, 2018
More than 50 representatives of the scientifics, researchers and journalists engaged into a stimulated debate. This was on the challenges of communicating science via social media.