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SUMMARY:Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future: Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman Envision What Will Be | Center for Brooklyn History & Brooklyn Public Library
DESCRIPTION:If the speed that the world is changing makes you want to crawl into a cave\, if you fret over the impact of technology\, the fracturing of democratic institutions\, the future of humanity\, then Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman have ideas you want to hear. Roose\, technology columnist for the New York Times\, has a vision for surviving our ever-accelerating technology onslaught with our jobs—and souls—intact\, as articulated in his latest book “Futureproof.” Zuckerman\, professor of public policy\, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, presents a roadmap for transformative\, positive social change and civic engagement in his book “Mistrust.” These two big thinkers on the future compare notes\, exchange theories\, and question each other about what’s to come. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/survival-guides-for-an-uncertain-future-kevin-roose-and-ethan-zuckerman-envision-what-will-be-center-for-brooklyn-history-brooklyn-public-library/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Achieving Digital Equity in India\, Pakistan\, and Beyond | New America
DESCRIPTION:Digital inclusion is about having the right access\, skills\, motivation and trust to confidently go online. Today’s network infrastructure is the lifeline on which much of modern life depends. Without it\, the ramifications of Covid-19 would have been far more severe. As the internet becomes a public utility that shapes our social\, political\, and economic lives\, we must take a hard look on what it means to be disconnected\, and raise ambitions to meet people’s need for affordable meaningful connectivity. More than half of the world’s population remains disconnected to the world\, and therefore\, unable to digitally access jobs\, trainings\, and vital marketplace connections. Connecting the rest of the world could potentially add $6.7 trillion to the digital economy. \nJoin us for this Davos Lab dialogue hosted in partnership with Future Tense\, the Global Shapers Bangalore Hub\, and the Open Technology Institute to discuss the ramifications of the digital divide in India\, Pakistan\, the United States\, and beyond. The Davos Lab is the world’s first grassroot and youth-driven COVID-19 recovery plan\, which will be showcased at the World Economic Forum Special Annual Meeting 2021. \n[…]\n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/achieving-digital-equity-in-india-pakistan-and-beyond-new-america/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T153000
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford - Atlas of AI | Digital Democracies Institute
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She holds the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris\, is a senior principal researcher at MSR\, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. Her new book\, The Atlas of AI: Power\, Politics\, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (available here for pre-order) explores the hidden costs of artificial intelligence\, from natural resources and energy to labor and data\, and reveals how AI systems have saturated political life and depleted the planet. \nShe will be discussing the themes of her book with Wendy Chun. Wendy is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, and leads the Digital Democracies Institute where researchers investigate themes of mis- and disinformation\, authenticity\, and counterspeech\, amongst many others. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/kate-crawford-atlas-of-ai-digital-democracies-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T130000
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SUMMARY:Edgelands Institute Launch Event | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass-urbanization\, surveillance\, pandemics\, and other emergencies\, currently being incubated at the Berkman Klein Center. \nThe Institute stems from the perception that the rapid deployment of surveillance technologies in cities to provide security services is reshaping how we interact with government\, corporations\, and each other without receiving the attention this transformation deserves. There is an urgent need for an inclusive conversation around how this is affecting our societies. The goal of the institute is to bring together all the concerned parties to find and create common ground. Its mission is to imagine the terms of new social contracts that work for cities and people in the age of pandemics and digital surveillance. \nDuring this launch event\, the institute will introduce its mission\, methodology\, and\, true to its mission\, bring together arts and research for an engaging session. To guide the conversation\, the institute would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions for us on your views about the urban social contract in your city. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/edgelands-institute-launch-event-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T120000
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SUMMARY:Socially Mediated Visibility in Socially and Politically Authoritarian Societies | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Increased visibility is arguably the most significant affordance of social media and a large body of scholarly work has sought to understand how individuals deal with the effects increased visibility in terms of concern for privacy as well as the ability to broadcast to wide audiences. Much of this work explores how pre-social media norms are applied\, for better or worse\, to socially mediated spaces. The presented projects also seek to understand how pre-existing norms are enacted in social media\, especially with regard to visibility\, but in a different context. This project is set in a society — Azerbaijan — in which a norm of interpersonal as well as governmental surveillance has not only existed for a long time\, but “permeates life” and is a part of “the dominant organizing value in society.“ Moreover\, surveillance is part of enforcing societal behavioral codes\, for which non-compliance results in severe punishment. The increased visibility afforded by social media has amplified and economized both interpersonal and government surveillance\, making the risk associated with behavioral code non-compliance and likelihood of punishment much greater. Given the norm of surveillance and these higher stakes\, Azerbaijanis make choices about online behavior that are of theoretical importance to our broader understanding of online behavior. Pearce will present two studies on visibility in an authoritarian environment: 1) through an Impression Management framework\, how honor is performed online\, and 2) how social media complicates the concealment/disclosure of stigmatized political identities.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/socially-mediated-visibility-in-socially-and-politically-authoritarian-societies-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:How the Political Communications Profession Helped Divide America | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Using examples of political advertising\, including some of his own work in nearly 30 years of creating such content as a campaign consultant\, Craig Snyder will explore the cumulative effects on the American political system\, and on American society more broadly\, of four standard techniques in modern American political communications: \n\nThe use of half-truths in advocacy\nRelentless negativity\nThe politics of personal destruction\nWhataboutism\n\nWith the opportunity for questions and interaction beyond the formal presentation\, Snyder wants to engage the audience in a dialogue about improving the way Americans communicate about politics. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/how-the-political-communications-profession-helped-divide-america-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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SUMMARY:Disinformation\, China\, and Beijing’s Broader Global Media Influence | ThinkND
DESCRIPTION:The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues\, ideas\, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students\, faculty\, and the community use guest speaker comments as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/disinformation-china-and-beijings-broader-global-media-influence-thinknd/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Chris Bail + Jonathan Haidt: Breaking the Social Media Prism | The Strand Book Store
DESCRIPTION:A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online–and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media \nIn an era of increasing social isolation\, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but\, as Chris Bail explains\, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities\, empowers status-seeking extremists\, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers\, foreign misinformation campaigns\, and radicalizing algorithms\, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/chris-bail-jonathan-haidt-breaking-the-social-media-prism-the-strand-book-store/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Epistemic Motivations\, Political Identity\, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation\, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. \nDannagal G. Young (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication\, 2007) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware where she studies the content\, audience\, and effects of non-traditional political information. She has authored over forty academic articles and book chapters exploring themes related to political entertainment\, media psychology\, public opinion\, and misinformation. She is also a dedicated public scholar\, with appearances on CNN\, MSNBC\, and PBS and having written for The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and Vox. Her 2019 book “Irony and Outrage“ examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives (Oxford University Press\, 2020). Dr. Young’s current book project (with JHU Press) explores how identity fuels misinformation and how our socially sorted political media ecosystem reinforces these patterns. Young was awarded the University of Delaware’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014 and is a TED Speaker. \n[…]\nSource: Epistemic Motivations\, Political Identity\, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election | Shorenstein Center
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/epistemic-motivations-political-identity-and-misperceptions-about-covid-and-the-2020-election-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T180000
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SUMMARY:What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony\, Media\, and Scholarship | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion: Media scholars and experts on how to combat the rise of hate and the disinformation that spreads it. \nHow can we learn from lessons of the past to stop hate movements today? What role does the media play in stopping the spread of hateful ideologies? How are disinformation and media manipulation used as tools by extremist groups and individuals? How do current civil rights movements\, like Black Lives Matter and Stop AAPI Hate\, combat hateful ideologies today? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/what-is-stronger-than-hate-lessons-from-testimony-media-and-scholarship-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T150000
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SUMMARY:Sociology Lecture Series: Ruha Benjamin\, "Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society" | The New School
DESCRIPTION:From everyday apps to complex algorithms\, technology has the potential to hide\, speed\, and deepen discrimination\, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity — what she terms the “New Jim Code.” \nThis presentation takes us into the world of biased bots\, altruistic algorithms\, and their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. She will also consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. In doing so\, Ruha challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold\, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/sociology-lecture-series-ruha-benjamin-race-to-the-future-reimagining-the-default-settings-of-technology-society-the-new-school/
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