ODU CS 795/795 Web Archiving Forensics, Spring 2019.

Instructor: Michael L. Nelson mln@cs.odu.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-4 and by appointment

Time: Wednesdays 4:20pm - 7:00pm

Place: ECS Building, r. 3102

Syllabus

Class Email list

• https://groups.google.com/group/cs895-s19

Class Schedule (subject to change)

• Week 1 - January 16 - The W3C Web Architecture, Memento Protocol, and Research Issues With Web Archiving
• Week 2 - January 23 - Weaponized Web Archives: Provenance Laundering of Short Order Evidence, Blockchain Can Not Be Used To Verify Replayed Archived Web Pages
• Week 3 - January 30 - No Class
• Week 4 - February 6 - Student Presentation 1
  • Nauman (slides): Mohammed Nauman Siddique, “Grampa, what’s a deleted tweet?”, 2018.
  • Justin (slides): Justin Littman, Vulnerabilities in the U.S. Digital Registry, Twitter, and the Internet Archive, 2017; Justin Littman, Suspended U.S. government Twitter accounts, 2017
• Week 5 - February 13 - Student Presentation 2
  • Matthew (slides): Max Read, How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually, New York Magazine, 2018.
  • Puneeth (slides): Michael L. Nelson, Why we need multiple web archives: the case of blog.reidreport.com, 2018.
• Week 6 - February 20 - Student Presentation 3
  • Vamsi (slides): Mohamed Aturban, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Difficulties of Timestamping Archived Web Pages, Technical Report arXiv:1712.03140, 2017.
  • Nauman: (slides): Jack Cushman, Ilya Kreymer, Thinking like a hacker: Security Considerations for High-Fidelity Web Archives, 2017; Ada Lerner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Rewriting history: Changing the archived web from the present, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC, 2017.
• Week 7 - February 27 - Student Forensics Studies 1
• Week 8 - March 6 - Student Presentation 4
  • Nauman (slides): Ed Summers, Delete Forensics, 2017.
  • Justin (slides): Clifford Lynch, Managing the Cultural Record in the Information Warfare Era, EDUCAUSE Review 53(6), 2018.
  • Matthew (slides): Ed Summers, Blacktivists in the Archive, 2017.
• Week 9 - March 13 - No Class – Spring Break
• Week 10 - March 20 - Student Forensics Studies 2
• Week 11 - March 27 - Student Presentation 5
  • Vamsi (slides): Brooke Auxier, Jennifer Golbeck, The President on Twitter: A Characterization Study of @realDonaldTrump, Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Informatics, 2017.
  • Puneeth (slides): Kate Starbird, The Surprising Nuance Behind the Russian Troll Strategy, 2018.
  • Matthew (slides): Jennifer Golbeck, Cody Buntain, This Paper is About Lexical Propagation on Twitter. H* ckin Smart. 12/10. Would Accept!, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2018.
• Week 12 - April 3 - Student Forensics Studies 3
• Week 13 - April 10 - No Class
• Week 14 - April 17 - Student Presentation 6
  • Justin (slides): Melanie Ehrenkranz, How Archivists Could Stop Deepfakes From Rewriting History, 2018.
  • Vamsi (slides): Amelia Acker, Data Craft: The Manipulation of Social Media Metadata, 2018.
  • Puneeth (slides): Jennifer Golbeck et al., Fake News vs Satire: A Dataset and Analysis, Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, 2018.
• Week 15 - April 24 - (no class)
• Week 16 - May 1 - Exam week begins (no class)`
• Week 17 - May 8 - Exam (Extra Credit Presentations)
  • Vamsi (slides): Scott G. Ainsworth, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel, Only One Out of Five Archived Web Pages Existed as Presented, Proceedings of Hypertext 2015, 2015.
  • Puneeth (slides): Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Understanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media, Proceedings of ICWSM 2018.

Unassigned Readings

• Ahmer Arif, Leo Graiden Stewart, Kate Starbird, Acting the Part: Examining Information Operations Within# BlackLivesMatter Discourse, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW, 2018.

• Louise Lief, What the news media can learn from librarians, Columbia Journalism Review, 2016.

• Clifford Lynch, Stewardship in the ‘Age of Algorithms’ First Monday 22(12), 2017.

• Luca Luceri, Ashok Deb, Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara , Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior, Technical Report arXiv:1902.02765, 2019.

• Xinyi Zhou, Reza Zafarani, Fake News: A Survey of Research, Detection Methods, and Opportunities, Technical Report arXiv:1812.00315, 2018.

• Jacob Eisenstein , Brendan O’Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing, Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media, PLoS ONE 9(11), 2014.

• Tom Wilson, Kaitlyn Zhou, Kate Starbird, Assembling Strategic Narratives: Information Operations as Collaborative Work within an Online Community, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW, 2018.

• Renee DiResta, The Digital Maginot Line, Ribbonfarm, 2018.

• Melanie Smith, Archives: Facebook Finds “Coordinated and Inauthentic Behavior” In the Philippines; Suspends a Set of Pro-Government Pages Ahead of May Elections, 2019.

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