Book purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.
Jill Lepore’s book, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright, 2020) is an account of the Cold War origins of the data-obsessed, algorithmic twenty-first century.
Launched in 1959 by some of the nation’s leading social scientists, the Simulmatics Corporation mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge ― decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. [Read more…] about Historian Jill Lepore On Data Mining and Voter Manipulation
The American Irish Historical Society’s Success In The City Group is set to present “Outrage Marketing – How to achieve worldwide publicity by using the outrage of the public and without spending a cent” with Paul Stenson and Jason Kidd from the White Moose Cafe of Dublin, on Wednesday April 3rd at 7 pm.
Lakes to Locks Passage is set to host a workshop focusing on Social Media Strategies for Museums and Nonprofits on Friday, September 14, from 10 am to 3 pm at the Ticonderoga Historical Society, 6 Moses Circle, Ticonderoga.