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Structured to complement existing coursework, the Student Fellowship is grounded in a tailored seminar series and offers the opportunity to connect with and learn from other students, as well as with esteemed scholars, technologists, and journalists working in the disinformation space, from the Berkman Klein Center and beyond. The 2020-21 Assembly Student Fellowship is a program for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students interested in exploring the complex challenges of disinformation on online platforms, engaging with faculty working on the cutting edge of the field, and building a diverse community of learning across disciplines. Student Fellows and their Fellowship “dumpster fire” socks, December 2020 ABOUT THE 2020-21 STUDENT FELLOWSHIP For additional information about this site, please write dwilson. Our (evolving) editorial approach is coordinated by Danny Wilson, a first-year student at Harvard Business School. Given how diffuse and multifaceted the study of disinformation has become, we hope to represent the range of individuals and ideas that have emerged to fight it. Our second objective entails drawing on the community addressing disinformation that exists beyond our program - at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard, and at organizations around the world. We expect several teams to make original contributions to the understanding of disinformation.
While the output of their work will take various forms, most teams are planning to share their progress on this site. In the spring of 2021, we will meet our first objective primarily through updates on the progress of the Collaboration Groups, which are teams of Fellows investigating specific topics within disinformation. Our aim is twofold: first, for this site to become a home for the intellectual output of the Assembly Student Fellowship and second, to become a hub of discussion about disinformation - through aggregation of scholarly work that we read, conversations with activists and policymakers that we admire, and discussion of individual Fellows’ research and ideas outside the confines of the program.
Students are supported by a community of Berkman Klein Center and Harvard faculty and staff. Student Fellows regularly convene for problem-solving seminars and student-led discussions to explore real-world disinformation problems. The Student Fellowship brings together a cohort of Harvard students from a range of disciplines and schools. The Assembly Student Fellowship is one of the three pillars of the Assembly Program at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.