Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book. Its called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Dr. Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of a. I. , emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. He is an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Professor woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, vice, tech crunch, the guardian and many, many others. His research has b
Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Professor wally founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. Also cofounded and directed Research Team at the computational propaganda product at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxnard. Hes written on political manipulations technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, vice, techcrunch, the guardian and many others. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, washington post, wall street journal and also made appearances on the today show. In frontline, is presented to members of nato, u. S. Congress and uk parliament. Its a great honor to have him here with us tonight during this incredible and important research. Give him a warm welcome. [applause] hi, everyone. Great to be here. I think my bio sounds kind of fake. Cra
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So now we can start to talk about a book that tells us who you are and in ways you may want to talk about so lets start you grew up. Im the son of a black man of 82 years old born 1937 raised in galveston under jim crow and with the war on Poverty Initiative and he met my mother in san diego where he was heading up a program and she was fresh out of college and she is daughter of evangelical christians and he was very much a part of this Mainstream Society that was opposed to intergenerational marriage. My mother is white. [laughter] he was really unhappy that the parents got together so they moved up to oregon and then my fathers job cap taking them east until 1981 when i was born. What job was he doing quick. By the time i was born he was running sat preparation and tutoring students to come to the house for the lsat gre math and science and he was supporting the family so we became captive to live in students in this house that was very small and modest but packed wall to wall with