Marshall Van Alstyne
Everett Lord Distinguished Scholar, Boston University Questrom School of Business
May 7, 2018
1:00 pm
May 7, 2018
1:00 pm
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
2nd floor
Room
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
London E1W 1LP, UK
Talk recording
Despite its long history, the recent controversy around misinformation and "fake news" has shown it to be a remarkably challenging problem. This talk will explore the precise nature of why fake news is so intractable in an effort to construct a more successful solution. Working from examples, it will show that the source of harm is not what most people believe it to be. Five existing solutions do not independently address the reasons that the parties most able to address the problem are insufficiently motivated to do so. We then use mechanism design principles to remake the rules that platforms use to manage their intellectual property. This shift in focus and governance suggests a novel solution.
About the speaker
Marshall Van Alstyne (@InfoEcon) is coauthor of the international bestseller Platform Revolution. He is one of the world's experts on network business models and is Everett Lord Distinguished Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. His research has received half a dozen academic awards and appeared in journals such as Science, Nature and Harvard Business Review. Interviews appear regularly across Bloomberg, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. He studied computer science at Yale and information technology at MIT. He holds multiple patents; was among the first to measure the dollar value of social networks, and his theories of network businesses are taught worldwide. He is a husband and dad, who loves dogs, exercise, travel, and questions of governance.
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