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SUMMARY:The Role of Legal Strategy in Platform Research | NetGain Partnership
DESCRIPTION:When platform researchers undertake new projects\, it is crucial to assess legal risks. Yet the legal constraints on platform research are often ambiguous. This webinar will explore what legal resources platform researchers need\, as well as how to make decisions to reach research objectives. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-role-of-legal-strategy-in-platform-research-netgain-partnership/
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SUMMARY:Accounting for AI — a Comparison of Methods | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:A few years ago\, Finale Doshi-Velez and Mason Kortz – and a squad of collaborators – unpacked explanation as one way to hold AI systems accountable. Many frameworks for AI regulation and best practices have since emerged. \nIn this conversation\, Finale and Mason return to the question of accountability and regulation for AI: What are the options for regulating AI systems in real-world settings? What are the advantages of ex-ante and ex-post monitoring? What roles should different methods of accountability play? How do we strategically use each one? \nThey will reflect on how their views have evolved and consider some ways forward. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/accounting-for-ai-a-comparison-of-methods-berkman-klein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T180000
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SUMMARY:The Facebook Files: Are teens and democratic societies at risk? | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two months\, the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series has chronicled the ways that Facebook and its platforms favor elites\, harm teenagers’ mental health\, encourage toxicity\, take weak action to stop human trafficking and drug cartels\, suppress political movements\, and ignore the concerns of their employees that Facebook can clean up its act. On Monday\, November 1\, 2021\, the lead reporter of the “Facebook Files\,” WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz\, will join us in the John F. Kennedy\, Jr. Forum to discuss his groundbreaking reporting on the harm that Facebook may be inflicting on its users and democracy. Dr. Latanya Sweeney\, the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School\, will moderate the conversation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-facebook-files-are-teens-and-democratic-societies-at-risk-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T123000
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SUMMARY:CDCS Colloquium: Beyond fairness: Datafication and Social Justice | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Lina Dencik is Professor in Digital Communication and Society at Cardiff’s School of Journalism\, Media and Culture and Co-Founder/Director of the Data Justice Lab. Her research concerns the interplay between media developments and social and political change\, with a particular focus on resistance\, governance\, and the politics of data. \nShe has published five books including Media and Global Civil Society (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012)\, Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century (co-authored with Peter Wilkin; Peter Lang\, 2015)\, Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Emancipation and Control (co-edited with Oliver Leistert; Rowman & Littlefield International\, 2015)\, Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (co-authored with Arne Hintz and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen; Polity Press 2018)\, and The Media Manifesto (co-authored with Natalie Fenton\, Des Freedman\, and Justin Schlosberg; Polity Press\, 2020). \nShe holds a Ph.D. from Goldsmiths\, University of London and has previously worked at the Central European University in Budapest where she is still a Fellow with the Center for Media\, Data and Society (CMDS). Prior to that she worked as a television producer/director at Brook Lapping Productions in London. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cdcs-colloquium-lina-dencik-cardiff-university-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T120000
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SUMMARY:How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize echo chambers\, foreign misinformation campaigns\, and algorithmic radicalization. Yet a careful review of the scientific literature indicates there is surprisingly little evidence that these factors shape political beliefs or inter-group attitudes. Drawing upon multiple field experiments\, large-scale analysis of social media data\, and longitudinal in-depth interviews\, this talk will describe Bail’s new book\, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Polarizing. He will offer a new account of political polarization on social media that emphasizes the role of social identity\, status-seeking\, and social learning. \nThis talk will explain how social media distorts how people understand what other people think of them\, and how this prism-like effect pushes social outcasts towards extremism and mutes moderates who do not depend on social media for their sense of self-worth. \n[…]\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/how-status-seeking-and-social-learning-shape-political-polarization-on-social-media-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T173000
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SUMMARY:Conspiracy Theories and Political Culture\, Past and Present: A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Join Adrienne LaFrance\, executive editor of The Atlantic and James McAuley\, The Atlantic contributor and author of The House of Fragile Things\, a history of Dreyfus-era France\, for a conversation around the long history of conspiracy theory and its role in political culture\, then and now. The discussion will be moderated by Sophia Rosenfeld\, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at Penn. \nThe talk is part of the Penn Libraries’ Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair Distinguished Lecture Series. The Annenberg School for Communication is a co-sponsor. \nThis event will be held remotely\, via Zoom. Link information will be provided to registrants. The event is free and open to the public. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/conspiracy-theories-and-political-culture-past-and-present-a-conversation-with-the-atlantics-adrienne-lafrance-and-james-mcauley-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T123000
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SUMMARY:CDCS Colloquium: Social Media and the Shape of “Man” | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr during its heyday from 2010-2015 and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist Mark Aguhar as a recurring touchstone\, this talk’s provocation is that the assumptive ways in which a social media platform “should” be designed — singular identity\, linear text exchanges\, direct messaging\, traversable connections\, and more — in fact instantiate a model of “Man” that can be traced back to the long violence of European colonialism. Relying on Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of the idea of homo oeconomicus as well as Lisa Lowe’s historical analysis of the colonial-era origins of the modern liberal subject\, this talk excavates these assumptions by advocating for and practicing a critical “close reading of design.” It then offers alternative design examples as opportunities for resisting this logic\, inviting us to imagine digital sociality from a standpoint of interdependence instead of the stance of the assumptive liberal individual. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cdcs-colloquium-alexander-cho-university-of-california-santa-barbara-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T120000
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SUMMARY:Mainstream Media is the Problem | Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:There is a lot of concern about how the news ecosystem affects public opinion\, political polarization\, and democracy. Most of the research and public debate focuses on overtly fake material\, particularly as it is distributed through social media. But\, the vast majority of news consumption is actual produced by mainstream media\, and the most common mode of consumption is television. Meanwhile\, many key demographic groups consume almost no news at all. Concerns about lack of information or misinformation should focus on where people actual consume (or don’t consume) news\, and the product they are actually consuming: mainstream media. \nDavid Rothschild is an economist at Microsoft Research. He has written extensively\, in both the academic and popular press. His work pushes the boundaries on varying data and methods: polling\, prediction markets\, social media and online data\, and large behavioral and administrative data. His work focuses on solving practical and interesting questions including: mapping and updating public opinion\, the market for news\, effect of advertising\, finance\, and an economist take on public policy. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/david-rothschild-mainstream-media-is-the-problem-network-science-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T150000
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SUMMARY:Credible threat: Attacks against women online and the future of democracy | Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Activists. Journalists. Elected Representatives. Public Intellectuals. When women are vocal about political and social issues\, too-often they are flogged with attacks via social networking sites\, comment sections\, discussion boards\, email\, and direct message. Rather than targeting their ideas\, the abuse targets their identities\, pummeling them with rape threats\, attacks on their appearance and presumed sexual behavior\, and a cacophony of misogynistic\, racist\, xenophobic\, and homophobic stereotypes and epithets. Identity-based attacks are particularly severe for those women from racial\, ethnic\, and religious minority groups or who work in domains dominated by men. Feminists and women who challenge traditional gender norms are also frequently targeted. This toxicity comes with economic\, professional\, and psychological costs for those targeted\, but it also exacts societal-level costs that are rarely recognized: it erodes civil liberties\, diminishes our public discourse\, thins the knowledge available to inform policy and electoral decision-making\, and teaches women that activism and public service are high-risk endeavors to be avoided. Sobieraj traces these underexplored effects\, showing that when identity-based attacks succeed in constraining women’s use of digital publics\, there are democratic consequences that cannot be ignored. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/credible-threat-attacks-against-women-online-and-the-future-of-democracy-centre-for-research-in-communication-and-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T130000
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SUMMARY:Lies and Elections | Knight First Amendment Institute
DESCRIPTION:How should the government regulate election-related speech? Trump’s “Big Lie” raises the question of whether lies about election results should be regulated by the social media platforms\, as well as the government. But of course\, these kinds of lies are not the only kinds of election-related lies that raise thorny free speech questions. Can or should foreign actors be able to intervene in electoral speech in the run-up to elections? How much should campaign finance law be used to patrol misinformation and disinformation about election donations and spending? Can there be stricter regulation of election-related speech without that justifying vote-suppressing laws targeting virtually nonexistent election fraud? More fundamentally\, how exceptional should we consider the electoral context when it comes to the regulation of lies? And how do race\, nationality\, and gender play into both election-related disinformation and its regulation?\n\n\n[…]\n\n end article metadata  \n end article social  \n end article body
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/lies-and-elections-knight-first-amendment-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T180000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Casey Fiesler (Colorado Boulder) on Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech | Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center
DESCRIPTION:Hardly a day passes without a new technology ethics scandal–from privacy violations on social media platform to biased algorithms to controversial data collection for training facial recognition systems. In computing practice and research\, good intentions sometimes still lead to negative consequences. This talk describes three lessons from my research that inform ethical practices in studying\, building\, and teaching about technology: (1) empirical work towards best practices for research ethics in data science\, including understanding possible harms from data collected without consent; (2) ethical debt (as a parallel to technical debt) in technology design and research as the precursor to the types of unintended consequences that underly ethical controversies; and (3) the importance of empowering everyone to not just create but to critique technology. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/dr-casey-fiesler-colorado-boulder-on-three-lessons-towards-ethical-tech-barnard-vagelos-computational-science-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T143000
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SUMMARY:Global Disinformation Index – Public Launch of Report & Results for Canada | Digital Democracies Institute
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n\nRegister here for the launch event for this highly anticipated event. News websites have financial incentives to spread disinformation\, in order to increase their online traffic and\, ultimately\, their advertising revenue. Meanwhile\, the dissemination of disinformation has disruptive and impactful consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a recent example. By disrupting society’s shared sense of accepted facts\, these narratives undermine public health\, safety and government responses. \nTo combat ad-funded disinformation\, the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) deploys its assessment framework to rate news domains’ risk of disinforming their readers. These independent\, trusted and neutral ratings are used by advertisers\, ad tech companies and platforms\, to redirect their online ad spending in line with their brand safety and disinformation risk mitigation strategies. \nGDI defines disinformation as ‘adversarial narratives that create real world harm’\, and the GDI risk rating provides information about a range of indicators related to the risk that a given news website will disinform its readers by spreading these adversarial narratives. These indicators are grouped under the index’s Content and Operations pillars\, which respectively measure the quality and reliability of a site’s content and its operational and editorial integrity. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/global-disinformation-index-public-launch-of-report-results-for-canada-digital-democracies-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T120000
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SUMMARY:Tech Whistleblowing: Resources\, Ramifications\, & Resiliency | NetGain Partnership
DESCRIPTION:Tech sector whistleblowers have played an increasingly vital role in exposing racism and toxic workplace environments\, algorithmic bias\, and other platform harms. But the cost of coming forward with information can be tremendous – including psychological\, legal\, and employment ramifications. This webinar will explore what is needed to build and maintain safe and secure channels for tech whistleblowers to share platform harms with the public\, and how civil society can support whistleblowers who boldly tell the truth. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/tech-whistleblowing-resources-ramifications-resiliency-netgain-partnership/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211006T133000
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SUMMARY:Reporting the Capitol Riots: A Conversation with Kadia Goba and Malachy Browne | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:This session will provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges of reporting on Capitol Riots. Kadia Goba was on the ground reporting from inside the Capitol and Malachy Browne used eyewitness footage to piece together events from the thousands of livestreams and posts to social media. We will hear them talk about their experiences from that day and afterwards and what their experiences can teach us about journalism today. \nAbout the Speakers \nClaire Wardle is considered one of the world’s leading experts on misinformation. She leads the strategic direction and research for First Draft\, a non-profit she co-founded in 2015. Over the past decade she has been a Fellow at TED\, the Shorenstein Center for Media\, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School\, the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and head of social media for the United Nations Refugee Agency. She graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania with her PhD in 2004. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/reporting-the-capitol-riots-a-conversation-with-kadia-goba-and-malachy-browne-annenberg/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T163000
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SUMMARY:Anti-Asian Sentiment Before Covid-19 | Digital Democracies Institute
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\nAs many media accounts have recounted\, Stop AAPI Hate reported that anti-Asian violence soared during the first wave of the 2020 COVID19 pandemic. From mid-March 2020 to the end of February 2021\, 3\,795 “Anti-Asian hate incidents” were reported to Stop AAPI Hate. North of the U.S. border in the Canadian province of British Columbia\, “Anti-Asian hate crimes” reportedly increased by 717% in 2020. Focusing on recent developments in social media\, this event will examine the longer historical context of anti-Asian violence\, interrogating why and how sentiments such as “hate” and acts of violence committed by individuals have become the primary framework for understanding Asian racialization. Within this context\, Grace Hong will speak about “Affect\, Sentiment\, and the Human: Love and Hate in a Time of Anti-Asian Violence”\, and Lisa Nakamura will discuss “Women of Color and the Digital Labor of Repair”.\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/anti-asian-sentiment-before-covid-19-digital-democracies-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T143000
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SUMMARY:Lies and Democracy | Knight First Amendment Institute
DESCRIPTION:“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other\, and no one\, as far as I know\, has ever counted truthfulness among the political virtues\,” wrote Hannah Arendt in 1967. Today\, concerns run especially high over the fraught relationship between truth and politics\, as majorities of Republican voters in some polls reportedly believe the “Big Lie” peddled by Donald Trump and many other political and media elites that the election was stolen from Trump through widespread fraud. Much of the discussion of the Big Lie has been ahistorical: It has focused on the strange and disturbing particularities of the present moment. But how unique is this kind of political lie in the United States? What does it reveal about American democracy? And how much of a threat do lies pose to the democratic order? \n\n\n\n end event intro  \n\n\n\n\n end article metadata  \n\n end article social  \n end article body
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/lies-and-democracy-knight-first-amendment-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T133000
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SUMMARY:Center for Media at Risk Roundtable: Archiving Trump: Cruelties\, Corruption and Citational Complexity | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Defender of democracy\, activist for women’s rights\, and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community\, Amy Siskind is best known as the author of The Weekly List and as President of The New Agenda\, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of women. On Twitter she is @Amy_Siskind. \nJay Rosen has been teaching journalism at New York University since 1986. Rosen is the author of PressThink\, a blog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org)\, which he introduced in September 2003. His book\, What Are Journalists For? (Yale University Press 1999)\, is about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Rosen is also an active press critic with a focus on problems in the coverage of politics. On Twitter he is @jayrosen_nyu. \nLeah Wright Rigueur is the Harry S. Truman Associate Professor of American History at Brandeis University. Her research expertise includes 20th Century American political and social history\, modern African American history\, race\, politics\, civil rights\, contemporary social movements\, political ideologies and institutions\, and the American presidency. On Twitter she is @LeahRigueur. \n[…]\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/center-for-media-at-risk-roundtable-amy-siskind-jay-rosen-leah-wright-rigueur-annenberg/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T213000
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SUMMARY:Becoming a digital power: Japan’s path for domestic transformation and international influence | Brookings Institute
DESCRIPTION:With the growing risk of the fragmentation of the international digital ecosystem\, prioritizing digital transformation has never been more important for Japan. The country’s digital transformation will largely determine its ability to adjust to profound demographic changes brought on by an ageing and contracting population\, find new sources of competitiveness and drivers for productivity at home\, and consolidate its international role in securing a data governance regime that delivers on the promise of free data flows with trust. Closing the digitization gap has emerged as a central priority for both government and industry as evidenced in the launch of the new Digital Agency. Can Japan overcome the challenges ahead to become a successful digital power? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/becoming-a-digital-power-japans-path-for-domestic-transformation-and-international-influence-brookings-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210914T163000
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SUMMARY:2021 Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture | Program in American Studies
DESCRIPTION:Ruha Benjamin is professor of African American studies at Princeton University\, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab\, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code among many other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science\, medicine and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity\, health and justice\, knowledge and power. \nBenjamin earned a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College\, M.A and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics and Harvard University’s Program on Science\, Technology and Society. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, Marguerite Casey Foundation 2020 Freedom Scholar Award\, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/2021-princeton-university-constitution-day-lecture-program-in-american-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210914T130000
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SUMMARY:Crossing Borders\, Counter-cartographies: Contemplations and Collaborations Using Historic Newspapers | Library of Congress
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante\, University of Arizona journalism professor\, will discuss how research involving historical newspapers\, including those in the National Digital Newspaper Program\, contributes to better understanding of the Mexico-United States borderlands and beyond. Her talk will consider how interdisciplinary and cross border collaborations with libraries\, librarians\, and media scholars can result in valuable experiential learning opportunities and research for students. She will discuss the results of student-centered research projects whose underlying aim is to create “counter-cartographies” of journalism and borderlands history. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you encounter problems with your registration\, please contact ndnptech@loc.gov. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/crossing-borders-counter-cartographies-contemplations-and-collaborations-using-historic-newspapers/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210909T130000
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DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210809T151836Z
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UID:68353-1631192400-1631192400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:CARGC Book Talk: Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:In Visions of Beirut\, Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts ranging from maps\, urban plans\, and aerial photographs to live television and drone-camera footage\, El-Hibri traces the histories of how the technologies and media infrastructure that visualize the city are used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power. \nThroughout the twentieth century\, colonial\, economic\, and military mapping projects helped produce and govern its spaces. In the 1990s\, the imagery of its post-civil war downtown reconstruction cast Beirut as a site of financial investment in ways that obscured its ongoing crises. During and following the 2006 Israel/Hizbullah war\, Hizbullah’s use of live television broadcasts of fighting and protests along with its construction of a war memorial museum at a former secret military bunker demonstrate the tension between visualizing space and the practices of concealment. \nOutlining how Beirut’s urban space and public life intertwine with images and infrastructure\, El-Hibri interrogates how media embody and exacerbate the region’s political fault lines. \n[…] \n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cargc-book-talk-hatim-el-hibri-george-mason-university-annenberg/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210909T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210909T120000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210721T154858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T155539Z
UID:67924-1631185200-1631188800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Future of Platform Accountability: Research\, Ethics\, and Racial Justice | NetGain Partnership
DESCRIPTION:A discussion on how platform research to address mis/disinformation should be approached through a race-based lens\, new platform research solutions and methods being pioneered and utilized by researchers of color\, the unique challenges researchers of color face\, and how philanthropy can better support and empower Black and Brown tech platform researchers to carry out their work. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-future-of-platform-accountability-research-ethics-and-racial-justice-netgain-partnership-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210903T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210903T120000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210819T162806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T125830Z
UID:68560-1630670400-1630670400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Annenberg Conversations on Gender: From Algorithm Audits to Accountability | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:In this conversation\, Duncan Watts and Danaë Metaxa will discuss Metaxa’s research using algorithm audits to measure gender and racial bias in online services such as Google Images. In addition to exploring the relevance of Metaxa’s work to algorithmic systems\, the discussion will also touch on the importance of reconciling the sometimes competing epistemic values of computer science and social science\, as well as the clash between the general and the particular. Finally\, they will discuss the relationship between a researchers’ own identity\, the work they choose to do\, and the way both are perceived in a sometimes hostile professional environment. \n[…]\n\n\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/annenberg-conversations-on-gender-from-algorithm-audits-to-accountability-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T100000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210820T002625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T125408Z
UID:68558-1629709200-1629712800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Misinformation: Stopping the spread | Alliance for Science
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nHumans are now able to access information through more channels than ever before\, exposing us to potentially dangerous conspiracy theories and deliberate disinformation campaigns. How and why does misinformation start? And what can we do to slow or stop its viral online spread? Join our panel of experts as they discuss ways to encourage critical thinking and promote digital literacy within the global contexts of public health\, food security and the climate crisis. Speakers include Daniel Otunge\, director of the Africa Science Media Centre; Amy Pisani\, executive director of Vaccinate your Family; John Cook\, research fellow in the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University\, and Devorah Adler\, founder of the online disinformation-disrupting tool known as Triple Check. AfS Director Sarah Evanega will moderate. \n[…]\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-stopping-the-spread-alliance-for-science/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210729T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210729T150000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210721T150715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T155831Z
UID:67914-1627567200-1627570800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Saving the news | The Brookings Institution
DESCRIPTION:The news industry in the United States is grappling with many serious and simultaneous challenges\, including massive declines in the number of staff and outlets\, perceptions of bias and blame for increasing political polarization\, and displacement by opinion and even disinformation. Growing numbers of communities lack any local news\, and online platforms draw ad revenues and attention by elevating what outrages or sorts users into separate communities. The very ideas of facts and objectivity are under assault. How can we reverse these trends and improve America’s news and information ecosystem? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/saving-the-news-brookings/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210723T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210723T133000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210721T150702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T155856Z
UID:67915-1627043400-1627047000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Transatlantic data flows: What’s next after the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield? | The Brookings Institution
DESCRIPTION:As digitization increasingly shapes the scope of U.S. international trade\, regulations and policies regarding cross-border data transfers carry significant economic implications. Yet—as the recent invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) demonstrates—trade\, economic competitiveness\, and free flows of data can come into tension with privacy and security protections. As the European Commission and European Data Protection Board apply the CJEU’s decision to alternative mechanisms for data transfers\, countries around the world are working to update their data protection frameworks with eyes toward the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Meanwhile\, the European Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce are discussing a new framework to replace the Privacy Shield and ways to protect the privacy and security of personal information while deriving the economic and societal benefits of cross-border data flows. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/transatlantic-data-flows-whats-next-after-the-eu-u-s-privacy-shield-brookings/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T190000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210721T151846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T153339Z
UID:67918-1626980400-1626980400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Nothing is Free: The Cost to Civil Society of Online Inequity\, Disinformation\, Hate\, and Surveillance | Charlemont Forum
DESCRIPTION:Jessica J. González is Co-CEO of Free Press\, an organization dedicated to “saving net neutrality\, achieving affordable internet access for all\, uplifting the voices of people of color in the media\, challenging old and new media gatekeepers to serve the public interest\, ending unwarranted surveillance\, defending press freedom and reimagining local journalism.”\n\nGonzález has worked extensively to inhibit online hate\, confront anti-immigrant and racist media programming\, and ensure equal access to communication for all\, including testifying before Congress in support of Net Neutrality and affordable internet access. As such\, she brings to us a comprehensive view of the online media ecosystem and its effect on civil discourse and society.\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nothing-is-free-the-cost-to-civil-society-of-online-inequity-disinformation-hate-and-surveillance-charlemont-forum/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210722T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210722T170000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210721T151607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T154144Z
UID:67916-1626973200-1626973200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Conspiracy Theories with Jen Roberts | Oregon Humanities
DESCRIPTION:The Flat Earth Society. The Illuminati. QAnon. Sometimes it seems like conspiracy theories have been multiplying exponentially\, especially in this time of global pandemic. Why do we gravitate toward conspiracy theories to make sense of the world? What human need do these stories fill? In this program\, we’ll explore some conspiracy theories old and new\, famous and obscure. What common themes do they share? How do they operate as stories and how do they evolve? What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and myth\, folklore\, and “fake news”? We’ll talk about the mechanics of conspiracy theories as we explore how to determine what’s true\, what’s false\, and whom to trust. \nEmail info@josephinelibrary.org to register for this program. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/conspiracy-theories-with-jen-roberts-oregon-humanities/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T170000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210715T154848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210715T180029Z
UID:67726-1626969600-1626973200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:China’s Long-Term Investments in AI Growth: Bringing the Public and Private Sectors Together | Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese leadership has put artificial intelligence front and center in China’s industrial development. As part of this strategy\, they have established: \n1. Industry alliances—collaboration platforms involving local governments\, academic institutions\, and companies; and \n2. Government guidance funds—public-private investment vehicles that mobilize massive amounts of capital in support of strategic and emerging technologies. \nCSET’s Ngor Luong and Ben Murphy have published research examining each of these components of China’s AI development strategy. In “China’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance\,” Luong examined the Chinese government’s AI industry alliance used to foster AI collaboration and\, occasionally\, to pick winners in the country’s AI sector. In “Chinese Government Guidance Funds\,” Luong and Murphy drew on hundreds of Chinese-language sources to perform an in-depth assessment of whether these guidance funds are delivering on their stated goal of accelerating progress in the development of emerging technologies. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/chinas-long-term-investments-in-ai-growth-bringing-the-public-and-private-sectors-together-sic-sequitur/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T120000
DTSTAMP:20261024T124447
CREATED:20210706T175242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T183114Z
UID:67479-1626951600-1626955200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Future of Platform Accountability: Research\, Ethics\, and Racial Justice | NetGain Partnership
DESCRIPTION:A discussion on how platform research to address mis/disinformation should be approached through a race-based lens\, new platform research solutions and methods being pioneered and utilized by researchers of color\, the unique challenges researches of color face\, and how philanthropy can better support and empower Black and Brown tech platform researchers to carry out their work. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-future-of-platform-accountability-research-ethics-and-racial-justice-netgain-partnership/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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