{"597131":{"#nid":"597131","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Cybersecurity Lecture Series with Hans Klein","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Domestic Benefits of Subversive Foreign Propaganda: The RT (Russia Today) News Network and Geopolitical Muckraking\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E2017\u0026rsquo;s biggest news story has been Russia\u0026rsquo;s alleged use of social media to try to influence Western elections. Much criticism is directed towards RT.com, the \u0026ldquo;Russia Today\u0026rdquo; news network created in 2005 by the Russian government, which offers round-the-clock reporting from offices in Moscow, London, and Washington, DC. RT has regularly been denounced as a propaganda outlet, but a content analysis of RT\u0026rsquo;s flagship public affairs program does not directly support this claim.\u0026nbsp; RT features dissident voices from legitimate Western institutions, suggesting that its media strategy is more one of muckraking and critique than of outright disinformation.\u0026nbsp; Russia\u0026rsquo;s investment in RT can be understood as a geopolitical strategy of undermining informational governance in the West by supporting muckraking, critical thinking, and anti-hegemonic narratives of public affairs.\u0026nbsp; For societies subject to such reporting, this strategy of \u0026ldquo;geopolitical muckraking\u0026rdquo; may offer some benefits insofar as it diversifies voices in the public sphere, highlights wrong-doing, and counters dominant narratives disseminated by domestic media.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/klein\u0022\u003EHans K. Klein\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D., is associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include: Internet governance, globalization and regulation, the development of large scale systems, federal technology policy, the politics of innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, public access television, and Internet and democracy. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after earning an M.S. in technology and policy at MIT, and a B.S. in engineering at Princeton University.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Hans Klein is the featured speaker at the Cybersecurity Lecture Series, when he reviews Russian influence in the Western public sphere via RT.com (\u0026quot;Russia Today\u0026quot;).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Associate Professor Hans Klein presents an overview of Russian influence in the U.S. public sphere."}],"uid":"27490","created_gmt":"2017-10-09 18:20:47","changed_gmt":"2017-10-09 18:21:20","author":"Tara La Bouff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-10-20T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-10-20 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-10-20 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-10-20 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"168131":{"id":"168131","type":"image","title":"Hans Klein","body":null,"created":"1449178968","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:48","changed":"1539024579","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:49:39","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Hans Klein","file":{"fid":"225880","name":"HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37247,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg?itok=ve5IlQsP"}},"593723":{"id":"593723","type":"image","title":"Cybersecurity Lecture Series by IISP","body":null,"created":"1500996186","gmt_created":"2017-07-25 15:23:06","changed":"1500996186","gmt_changed":"2017-07-25 15:23:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226333","name":"CLS_logo_FY18 w tag.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CLS_logo_FY18%20w%20tag.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CLS_logo_FY18%20w%20tag.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":580256,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CLS_logo_FY18%20w%20tag.jpg?itok=8s4XWw-w"}}},"media_ids":["168131","593723"],"groups":[{"id":"430601","name":"Institute for Information Security and Privacy"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"174439","name":"cybersecurity policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}