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SUMMARY:Gender & Tech Online Talk Series: Technocapitalism & Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Gender and Tech Talk Series brings together leading scholars\, advocates\, and practitioners to discuss the intersections of gender\, technology\, democracy and human rights. It critically examines how digital platforms and technologies impact women\, queer and gender-diverse individuals while exploring pathways for more inclusive\, rights-focused digital governance frameworks. \nThe fourth talk\, “Technocapitalism and Environmental Justice\,” will examine the intersection of technocapitalism\, environmental justice\, and gender\, exploring how the global dominance of tech corporations exacerbates environmental inequalities and impacts marginalized communities. We expect to discuss the environmental and social costs of digital technologies\, focusing on how technocapitalism contributes to resource extraction\, waste\, and exploitation\, particularly in the Global South. The conversation also aims at addressing the gendered dimensions of tech-environmental harm\, highlighting how marginalized communities bear the brunt of these impacts. \nThis online series\, co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia\, runs monthly featuring two speakers and international perspectives. It began in April 2025 and will end in December 2025\, with the following dates and topics: \n4/25 | Digital Colonialism\n5/27 | Data Governance\n8/28 | Platform Governance\n9/29 | Technocapitalism and environmental justice\n10/27 | Data Work and Political Participation\n11/24 | Trans-inclusive AI Governance \nThe discussions will become a report published in early spring 2026. \nAbout the panelists \nTamara Kneese directs Data & Society Research Institute’s Climate\, Justice\, and Technology program and previously led the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab (AIMLab). Before joining D&S\, she was lead researcher at Green Software Foundation\, director of developer engagement on the Green Software team at Intel\, and assistant professor of Media Studies and director of Gender and Sexualities Studies at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Yale University Press\, 2023) and co-author of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry (Common Notions Press\, 2025). Her work has been published in academic journals including Social Text\, Social Media + Society\, and the International Journal of Communication and in popular outlets such as Wired\, The Verge\, and The Baffler. Tamara holds a PhD in Media\, Culture and Communication from NYU. \nPaz Peña is a Mozilla Senior Fellow for 2025\, dedicated to studying the socio-environmental impacts of AI data centers in Latin America. With over 15 years of experience\, she explores the intersection of technology\, social justice\, and feminism\, working with governments\, civil society\, and international agencies. For the past seven years\, Paz has focused her research on the socio-environmental consequences of digital technologies in Latin America. In 2021\, she established the Latin American Institute of Terraforming (terraforminglatam.net)\, a unique space for reflecting on the relationship between technology and the ecological and climate crises we face. In 2023\, she published a summary of her research in the book “Tecnologías para un planeta en llamas” (Paidós). Paz is based in Santiago\, Chile. \nJess Reia (moderator) is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and a Faculty co-lead at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia. In 2025\, Reia was selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. They are also a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington\, D.C. Reia works primarily on topics of technology policy and human rights transnationally\, being interested in the untold stories in our datasets\, citizen-generated data and how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we think about evidence and representation. \nA policymaker by training\, Reia’s research and advocacy agenda has focused on building collaborations with government and civil society organizations in Brazil\, Canada and the US for over a decade\, resulting in numerous resources to support policy- and decision-making and academic publications in four languages. Reia is also a public scholar whose writing and interviews were featured in various outlets\, including Estadão\, Le Devoir and BBC. Before joining UVA\, they were appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University\, studying the impact of smart-washing and datafication in nocturnal urban spaces and their communities. Reia held a two-year mandate as a member of MTL 24/24’s first Night Council in Montreal. Prior to that\, they worked at the Center for Technology & Society at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro. \nReia’s latest book\, “Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data\, Policy and Our Cities” (Intellect/University of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, explores what happens when precarious urban cultural laborers take data collection\, laws\, and policymaking into their own hands. A transnational exploration of often unseen aspects of urban governance\, it examines the intricate limits of legality\, data visibility\, and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. \nCurrently\, Reia teaches courses for future data scientists on ethics\, governance\, and policy. Past courses have included a focus on urban data\, digital rights\, intellectual property\, and research methods.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/gender-tech-online-talk-series-technocapitalism-environmental-justice/
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SUMMARY:AI Hype Working Group: Responsible use of AI in journalism | Public Tech Media Lab
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the last session of our AI Hype Working Group! We are thrilled to have Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam) joining us as a guest speaker. Find more information about this session below: \nProposition: Responsible use of AI in journalism begins with responsible procurement. \nAbstract: The resilience of a democracy is invariably linked to the health of a society’s media ecosystem. In a recent report\, the Dutch Council of Government Policy (WRR) characterized the democratic role of the media as providing the ‘infrastructures of the public space.”This also means that some technology choices are editorial and co-shape our public information ecosystem. I will argue that the constitutionally protected freedom of the media also entails duties and responsibilities\, including a shared responsibility for shaping our media freedom infrastructure. Subject to the capacities and resources of individual media organizations\, each media organization can have some active role in co-shaping the technological infrastructures for media freedom – be that through experimenting with value-sensitive recommender design\, opting in favour of open source software or specialized start-ups\, through cooperation with a national LLM project instead of concluding a licensing deal with Open AI\, Llama\, and Co. \nBiography: Natali Helberger is Distinguished University Professor of Information Law and Digital Technology at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Executive Board of the Institute for Information Law (IViR). Helberger is an elected member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW)\, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)\, and the Social Science Council of the KNAW. Helberger’s research focuses on how AI and ADS (algorithmic decision systems) are changing society and what the implications are for law and governance. She is the founder and co-director of the AI\, Media & Democracy Lab\, and of the AlgoSoc (Public Values in the Algorithmic Society) Gravity Consortium. In her function as expert\, Natali advises the European Commission\, European Parliament\, Council of Europe\, and national regulators and civil society organisations. \nRead more and register to attend on the Public Tech Media Lab’s website. Note: Event times are in Central Daylight Time (CDT). 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-hype-working-group-responsible-use-of-ai-in-journalism-public-tech-media-lab/
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