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Category: Presentations

This page features presentations I have given to academic audiences and the general public.

Thesis presentation: From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 Characters

October 4, 2017July 1, 2021 Josh Cowls

The presentation of my MIT thesis, “From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 Characters”, is now available:

Posted in Online political communication, Presentations, Uncategorized

The Potential and Perils of Election Prediction Using Social Media Sources

July 25, 2016July 25, 2016 Josh CowlsLeave a comment

The Potential and Perils of Election Prediction Using Social Media Sources (with Federico Nanni). Invited presentation to Connected Life 2016, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. 

Posted in politics, Presentations, technology, Uncategorized

Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities

April 10, 2015July 1, 2021 Josh CowlsLeave a comment

Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities. (With Helen Hockx-Yu and Jane Winters) Invited presentation to the International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly, Stanford University, CA, USA, April 2015.

Posted in Presentations, technology, Uncategorized, Web archives for research

Who does the web think you are?

November 15, 2014January 12, 2016 Josh CowlsLeave a comment

Who does the web think you are?‘ Public talk at ‘Being Human: a festival of the humanities’, London, November 2014. (With Ralph Schroeder)

Posted in Presentations, technology, Uncategorized

In short

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RSS At length

  • “Severance”: Apple’s warped satire of… Apple? April 18, 2022
  • Truth Social: App stores as a new front in the platform governance of Donald Trump February 21, 2022
  • A nervous onlooker’s guide to the 2020 presidential election, which will be fought in four… October 31, 2020
  • Want to stop no deal and five more years of Boris? The only answer is a tactical pact May 3, 2020
  • Brexit and the politics of subtraction May 3, 2020
  • Flattening the curve forwards: The new speed of politics and the new politics of speed May 3, 2020
  • Four Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a PhD August 20, 2019
  • Deciding how to decide: Six key questions for reducing AI’s democratic deficit March 22, 2019
  • “Free Solo” Review: A human-nature documentary as grounded as it is gripping December 18, 2018
  • Review of By Chloe October 3, 2018
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