About
Mission
Playing to find out what happens
Activation Layer explores where technology meets democracy in the wild. My goal is to illuminate both the perils and promises of our technological moment through analysis, curation, and tinkering.
Who writes this?
Ryan Williams is a PhD candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and co-founder of the (now defunct) Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin. His research explores global policy responses to emerging technologies. Ryan leads the Global Disinformation Policy Database project at UT. He has previously worked as a computational disinformation analyst where he developed tools and tactics for understanding online affinity groups. Ryan has MA degrees from UT in Global Policy and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.