Mark Hansen
Biography
Statistician and professor whose work lies at the intersection of data, art, and technology. His Computational Journalism course at Columbia contributed reporting for the New York Times' 'The Follower Factory,' which exposed the sale of fake Twitter followers and led to Twitter's 2018 purge of tens of millions of accounts.
Sample Works
- Listening Post (with Ben Rubin) (2002) Exhibition
- The Follower Factory (computational journalism investigation, New York Times) (2018) Article
Roundtable Appearances
October 15, 2022 · ▶ Video
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction -- the Parcellation of What Isn't There
The humanities examine idea manipulation. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and drive cultural evolution. The session explores roles cultural memes -- facts, factoids, or fiction...
Peter A. Gloor, Mark Hansen, Yonina Hoffman, Jonathan Kramnick, Nikos Salingaros