Week: Week 10: Sybils | Technologies for democratic society

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This week: 10. Social bots and Sybil attacks
Next week: 11. Identity and anonymity
- Select activity Instructor's notes - before lecture
  
  Instructor's notes - before lecture Page
- Select activity Assigned reading: "4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community"
  
  Assigned reading: "4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community" File
- Select activity Assigned reading: "A survey on essential components of a self-sovereign identity"
  
  Assigned reading: "A survey on essential components of a self-sovereign identity" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America"
  
  Optional reading: "The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America" URL
- Select activity Optional reading: "Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online"
  
  Optional reading: "Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "Anonymous Communication: Unmasking Findings Across Fields"
  
  Optional reading: "Anonymous Communication: Unmasking Findings Across Fields" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities"
  
  Optional reading: "Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "The impacts of identity verification and disclosure of social cues on flaming in online user comments"
  
  Optional reading: "The impacts of identity verification and disclosure of social cues on flaming in online user comments" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "Account Verification on Social Media: User Perceptions and Paid Enrollment"
  
  Optional reading: "Account Verification on Social Media: User Perceptions and Paid Enrollment" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router"
  
  Optional reading: "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "Aadhaar Failures: A Tragedy of Errors"
  
  Optional reading: "Aadhaar Failures: A Tragedy of Errors" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "Identity and Personhood in Digital Democracy: Evaluating Inclusion, Equality, Security, and Privacy in Pseudonym Parties and Other Proofs of Personhood"
  
  Optional reading: "Identity and Personhood in Digital Democracy: Evaluating Inclusion, Equality, Security, and Privacy in Pseudonym Parties and Other Proofs of Personhood" URL
- Select activity Optional reading: "Biometric Recognition: Security and Privacy Concerns"
  
  Optional reading: "Biometric Recognition: Security and Privacy Concerns" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "AnonRep: Towards Tracking-Resistant Anonymous Reputation"
  
  Optional reading: "AnonRep: Towards Tracking-Resistant Anonymous Reputation" File
- Select activity Optional reading: "An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash"
  
  Optional reading: "An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash" File
- Select activity Lecture recording
  
  Lecture recording URL

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