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SUMMARY:2026 IDeaS Conference | Governing the Digital Age: AI\, Platforms\, and Online Harms Policy
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Information Democracy & Social–cybersecurity (IDeaS)  is hosting a conference focused on policy challenges emerging from the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and digital platforms. Advances in AI systems\, shifts in platform governance\, and the scale and speed of online communication are transforming how information is produced\, distributed\, and consumed. At the same time\, online harms – including illegal\, abusive\, and deceptively manipulated content – are increasingly linked to offline social and economic outcomes\, with significant implications for democratic institutions and communities. This conference asks: How are AI systems and platforms governed today? Who is responsible for mitigating digital harms? What policy frameworks can balance innovation\, accountability\, and public trust? \nIDeaS will bring together academics\, policymakers\, industry practitioners\, and civil society leaders to evaluate the state of the field\, identify gaps in current approaches\, and share insights to inform future research and policy. Participants will engage with topics such as AI governance\, platform regulation\, online harms policy\, and the real-world impacts of digital systems. \nThe conference will include: invited panels\, regular talks\, and posters. There will also be an opportunity for those interested in demoing their technologies or proposed policies. Teams are invited to submit their proposed solutions to a timely policy challenge concerning AI overviews in web search results. Submissions should be uploaded via EasyChair by August 21st\, 2026.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/2026-ideas-conference-governing-the-digital-age-ai-platforms-and-online-harms-policy/
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SUMMARY:Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2026
DESCRIPTION:AoIR 2026 — Mexico City\n\nWe are thrilled to be in Mexico City\, Mexico for AoIR2026! #AoIR2026 will be held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Mexico City\, from October 14th to 17th\, 2026. It will also be AoIR’s second bilingual conference\, after last year’s successful piloting in Niteroí\, Brazil. \nThis Year’s Theme: Regenerations\nRegeneration(s) opens us up to exploring deeper processes of technological\, cultural\, political\, artistic\, and infrastructural renewal. Online cultures are born\, mature\, decay\, and are reborn in slightly different forms; generations of internet researchers train and mentor each other; new ideas and approaches emerge. Regeneration here is not simply understood as technological repair or sustainability\, but as a relational and ethical process grounded in ongoing responsibilities to land\, peoples\, data\, and communities; Regeneration is cyclical and inseparable from complex histories of resistance as a counterweight to the logics of optimization and maximization that characterize the tech industry. \nGeneration and generativity as productive capacities are also contested processes and capacities as AI companies try to frame generativity as automation\, reproduction\, and passivity at scale. The challenge then is to generate technical\, political\, and communal imagination and maps that allow us to articulate embodied\, alternative\, and active generative futures around collective technological use. This also offers an opportunity to think seriously about how our scholarly networks themselves are generated\, regenerated\, and maintained. \nThis year’s conference is co-hosted by scholars and institutions in both Mexico City/CDMX\, MX\, and Los Angeles\, CA\, two cities with complex and entangled histories. Although they are often thought of as distinct worlds – one\, the historic capital of México\, and the other\, a paradigmatic U.S. metropolis molded by migration\, sprawl\, and imagination. Both historically and now\, they are inextricably tied; from colonial and imperial trade routes to cross-border familial legacies\, to twentieth century labor markets and migration. Turning colonial historical narratives on their heads\, Chicano activists of the 1960s and 70s reminded the world with an insistent rallying cry\, “the border crossed us.” \nIn recent years\, both have seen unprecedented investment from tech companies expanding infrastructure and the transformation of core industries and craft by the increasing encroachment of AI\, even as both cities struggle with severe drought and other environmental and economic consequences hastened by legacies of resource extraction. Mexico City/CDMX has also experienced challenges posed by a significant influx of so-called “digital nomads\,” particularly from the North. Worsening gentrification and an ever-growing population of non-Spanish speakers have sparked a backlash\, pushing back against displacement and economic stratification. Los Angeles\, too\, has been subject to the crisis of housing affordability and gentrification\, a perennial issue exacerbated by the tech hubs like Silicon Beach. It is against these backdrops and complex\, intertwined but distinct histories and cultures that we invite the AoIR global community of internet scholars to participate in this conference. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more and register to attend. Standard registration is available from August 1 through October 14.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/association-of-internet-researchers-aoir-2026/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Mexico City\, Campos Eliseos No. 204 Polanco Chapultepec\, Mexico City\, 11560\, Mexico
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