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SUMMARY:Anger\, fear\, domination: Dark passions and the power of political speech
DESCRIPTION:As liberal democracies around the world are faltering\, William Galston’s new book\, “Anger\, Fear\, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech\,” explores the sources of this decline that stem from the internal vulnerabilities of liberal democracy\, particularly the ability of ambitious leaders to mobilize public anger and fear in the service of domination. \nOn September 10\, Brookings Senior Fellows Jonathan Rauch and Galston will discuss the power of political speech in democracies to stoke the dark side of human nature and the need for a new liberal realism to counter anti-democratic forces. \nRegister to attend in person | Register to watch online
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/anger-fear-domination-dark-passions-and-the-power-of-political-speech/
LOCATION:The Brookings Institute\, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW\, Washington\, D.C.\, 20036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Federal Efforts to Expand Access to State Administrative Data
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Democracy & Technology\, the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology\, and Protect Democracy for a webinar on Federal Efforts to Expand Access to State Administrative Data. This event\, the third in a series related to government data privacy\, follows a recently-released explainer on Federal Efforts to Expand Access to Data from State-Run Programs and Individual Privacy. This discussion will focus on:\n\n \n\n 	The types of administrative data held by state-run programs\,\n \n 	Examples of historic and current efforts by the federal government to access state data\,\n \n 	The legal protections for federal attempts to access state administrative data\, and\n \n 	The potential future changes to and impacts of the federal government’s growing access\, use\, and sharing of state administrative data.\n\n \n\nThis event and its collaborative resources are the latest effort from our organizations to track this rapidly evolving issue and unpack implications for privacy\, civil liberties\, and civil rights\, including the potential violations of legal privacy protections and negative impacts to millions of people.\n\n\nFeatured Speakers:\n\n 	Quinn Anex-Ries\, Center for Democracy & Technology\n 	Frank Torres\, the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology\n 	Nicole Schneidman\, Protect Democracy\n 	Matthew Dunlap\, Maine State Auditor\n 	Angela Arsenault\, Vermont State Representative\n\nFor additional information\, please reach out to civictech@cdt.org\, techcenter@civilrights.org\, and techanddata@protectdemocracy.org.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/federal-efforts-to-expand-access-to-state-administrative-data/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T083000
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SUMMARY:The EU Code of Practice on disinformation: evaluating VLOPSE compliance and effectiveness
DESCRIPTION:In this webinar\, Trisha Meyer (co-author) will present the findings of the recently published EDMO report on the compliance and effectiveness of Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines’ (VLOPSE) actions to implement the Code of Practice (now Code of Conduct) on Disinformation\, focusing on Meta (Facebook and Instagram)\, Google (Search and YouTube)\, Microsoft (Bing and LinkedIn)\, and TikTok. Large online platforms submit transparency reports twice a year\, detailing their efforts to meet commitments under the Code. The report focuses on key areas such as supporting media literacy\, enhancing fact-checking partnerships\, improving transparency\, and enabling research\, as reported in 2024. The assessment examines the extent to which these seven VLOPSE services have met core commitments under the CoPD and evaluates the real-world impact of selected actions and initiatives taken under the Code. \n  \nSpeaker \nTrisha Meyer | Professor in Digital Governance and Participation; Co-Lead·Vrije Universiteit Brussel; EDMO BELUX \n\nTrisha Meyer is an Associate Professor in Digital Governance and Participation at the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, where she leads the Research Centre for Digitalisation\, Democracy and Innovation. Trisha is also principal investigator of EDMO BELUX\, a co-funded hub on research\, fact-checking and media literacy on online disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg. Trisha researches the regulatory push toward and societal consequences of tech platforms taking proactive (automated) measures to moderate online content. A second closely related research strand pertains to participatory governance in digital policy. In recent years\, her research has focused on the balancing act necessary when developing responses to tackle disinformation online.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-eu-code-of-practice-on-disinformation-evaluating-vlopse-compliance-and-effectiveness/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T120000
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SUMMARY:Live Podcast Recording | Setting a ‘Tech Agenda’ for Climate Week with Tech Policy Press
DESCRIPTION:From September 21–28\, New York City will host Climate Week. Leaders from business\, politics\, academia\, and civil society will gather to share ideas and develop strategies to address the climate crisis. \n​The tech industry intersects with climate concerns in a number of ways\, not least of which is through its own growing demand for natural resources and energy\, particularly to power data centers. What should a “tech agenda” for Climate Week include? What are the most important issues that need attention\, and how should challenges and opportunities be framed? \n​Join Tech Policy Press and expert guests for a live recording of The Tech Policy Press Podcast. Speakers include: \n\n\n​Justin Hendrix\, CEO and Editor\, Tech Policy Press \n\n\n​Alix Dunn\, Founder and CEO of The Maybe \n\n\n​Tamara Kneese\, Director of Data & Society‘s Climate\, Technology\, and Justice Program \n\n\n​Holly Alpine\, Co-Founder\, Enabled Emissions Campaign \n\n\n\nRead more and register to attend here. 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/live-podcast-recording-setting-a-tech-agenda-for-climate-week-with-tech-policy-press/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T120000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Peacebuilding |  International Panel on the Information Environment
DESCRIPTION:On 22 September\, the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) invites you to the launch of its landmark report\, Artificial Intelligence and Peacebuilding: Opportunities and Challenges. \nAI is increasingly shaping peacebuilding efforts – helping monitor conflict risks\, support humanitarian coordination\, and foster dialogue. Yet\, the same technologies can also fuel repression\, surveillance\, disinformation\, and polarization. This webinar will explore the double-edged nature of AI in fragile contexts and highlight why human rights must be at the core of its design and deployment. \nDrawing on analysis of over 600 global sources\, the report provides the most comprehensive scientific assessment to date of AI’s potential in peacebuilding. It sets out five key recommendations for policymakers\, the private sector\, and civil society to ensure that AI contributes to peace rather than instability. \nThrough keynote insights\, expert discussion\, and audience engagement\, this session will examine: \n\nThe promise and perils of AI in conflict and post-conflict settings\nThe growing role of generative AI in peacebuilding\nThe importance of local knowledge\, data sovereignty\, and smaller language models\nHow to align AI innovation with human rights principles\, from privacy to freedom of expression\nPractical steps for building cross-sector partnerships that safeguards peace\n\nSpeakers include: \n\nProf. Fredrick Ogenga\, Chair of the IPIE’s Scientific Panel on AI and Peacebuilding\nDr. Evelyne Tauchnitz\, Vice Chair\nDr. Lisa Schirch\, Panel Member\nDr. Craig Zelizer\, Consulting Scientist\n\nThis event will be chaired by Prof. Sebastian Valenzuela\, Chief Science Officer at the IPIE. \nRegister to attend here. 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/webinar-the-double-edged-sword-of-ai-in-peacebuilding-international-panel-on-the-information-environment/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Understanding AI with Data & Society | The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging – What Now?
DESCRIPTION:Researcher Tamara Kneese speaks with environmental justice researcher Sanjana Paul and critical social scientist Jasmine McNealy about the environmental toll AI development is taking on local water supplies\, energy systems\, and communities around the world. \nThis event will take place online and in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor \nArtificial intelligence technologies run on powerful computers that require vast amounts of energy\, water\, and critical minerals. As AI use grows\, so does its environmental footprint. Yet there is little consensus on how to assess and address the technology’s toll on the climate before irreparable damage is done. How can we understand the impact AI data centers have on communities and the environment? How can we ensure that communities are able to use empirical data about those impacts to fight back? \nTo join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events\, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance\, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time\, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program. \nTo join the event online | Whether you’re attending in person or online\, you must register with your email address. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet/cellular connection to view the livestream. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nTamara Kneese is the director of Data & Society’s Climate\, Technology\, and Justice program. Previously\, she led Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impacts Lab (AIMLab). Tamara’s research juxtaposes histories of computing and automation with ethnographies of platform labor. Her first book\, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond\, was published by Yale University Press in 2023. \nJasmine McNealy is an attorney\, critical public interest technologist\, and social scientist who studies emerging media & technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. An internationally recognized scholar\, her research is interdisciplinary\, centered at the intersection of media\, technology\, policy\, and law. Of particular focus are the areas of privacy\, surveillance\, and data governance and emphasizing technological and the impacts on marginalized and vulnerable communities. She is a professor at the University of Florida where she directs the Infrastructure for Communities\, Ecology for Data Hub (ICED Hub)\, which annually hosts the Rural x AI + Policy Workshop. She is also Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. \nSanjana Paul is an engineer\, environmental justice researcher\, and systems thinker working at the intersection of infrastructure\, climate\, and technology. She is a PhD student at MIT\, where her research focuses on renewable energy\, energy justice\, and the electric grid. She is the co-founder of Rooted Futures Lab\, a research and action collective advancing environmental justice in technology\, and Earth Hacks\, a nonprofit harnessing hackathons as a form of climate action. Her work has ranged from atmospheric science software engineering at NASA to passing decarbonization policy at the local level. She holds a BS in electrical engineering and physics\, and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/understanding-ai-with-data-society-the-environmental-costs-of-ai-are-surging-what-now/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T110000
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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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