DAY 2:
#SOCIAL MEDIA + CYBER DEFENSE
+ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Location: Bass Lecture Hall, LBJ School of Public Policy
(For virtual participation, a link will be posted.)
The following times are listed in Central Standard Time.
8:00 am
Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and the Phases of Information Disorder
Speaker: Claire Wardle
Moderator: Jeff Trimble
8:45 - 9:30
Over the Great Firewall: Social Media in Restricted Information Spaces
Interview with Patrick Boehler, RFE/RL
Host: Brian Whitmore, Atlantic Council
9:45 - 10:45
TikTok Talk: The Consequences for National Security and Democracy
Speaker: Glenn Gerstell (CSIS)
Moderator: Adam Klein (Director, Strauss Center)
Discussant: Chinmayi Sharma (Strauss Center)
10:45 - 11:30
China Versus the US: Social Media Bubble Comparison
Speaker: Xiaozhong Liu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
11:30 - 12:15
Digital Repression: The Use of Social Media & Its Impact on the Balance of Government & Civil Society
Speaker: Brigadier General (Ret.) Boris Saavedra
1:00 - 1:45
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Information: A Critical Overview of ChatGPT
Panelists: Macy Huang, Alec Leaper, and Enrique Velasquez Morquecho
Moderator: TBD
1:45 - 2:30
Russian Military Perception of Information Warfare
Speaker: Ivana Stradner
Cyber Warfare Before and After the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Speaker: Anna Romandash
Moderator: Taylor Ham
2:45 - 3:30
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Afghanistan
Panelists: Nahid Siamdoust, Marwan Kraidy, Matthew Ellis, Andres Ilves
Moderator:
3:30 - 4:15
Border Gone: Fostering Nonreciprocal Listening to Gaza Through Social Media
Speaker: Yuval Katz
4:30 - 5:30
The Expanding Role of Digital Communications in Modern and Future Warfare
Panelists: Michael Allison (Army Futures Command), MAJ Jessica Dawson (US Army Cyber Institute), Kiril Avramov (GDIL), Paul Edgar (Clements Center)
Moderator: Michael Mosser (GDIL)
5:30 - 7:30
Happy Hour (sponsored by the director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
