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SUMMARY:Librarians and Misinformation: Curating the Information Needs of Communities | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to meet our information needs\, the public still overwhelmingly trusts libraries. That’s because librarians fulfill a service mission as community information stewards–long serving as the only place people can go for free internet access\, computer instruction\, books and access to critical government resources. \nAs the information needs of communities have expanded from a crisis of access to a crisis of trust\, librarians help patrons discern fact from fiction online and increasingly find themselves defending decisions about which books and information to carry and which to pull. The curatorial decisions of libraries have been shoved into the fray of polarized cultural and political debates about how to educate about racism in public schools\, how to provide community resources on queerness\, and whether or not to carry literature that promotes hate. \nMeanwhile\, debates rage about how tech companies and governments can regulate and retool our information ecosystems to keep communities safe and informed. Including the perspective of librarians in these conversations is essential to keeping solutions grounded in serving the information needs of our communities. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/librarians-and-misinformation-curating-the-information-needs-of-communities-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T140000
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SUMMARY:The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers\, Philanthropists\, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:Who is part of technology development\, who funds that development\, and how we put technology to use all influence the outcomes that are possible. To change those outcomes\, we must—all of us—shift our relationship to technology—how we use it\, build it\, fund it\, and more. \nJoin us for a fireside chat featuring Afua Bruce\, Sue Hendrickson\, and Amritha Jayanti\, who will discuss the future role and applications of the technology pushing the social impact sector forward. \nTheir conversation will explore the implications of the use\, creation\, and funding of technology and how social impact organizations\, technologists\, funders\, policymakers\, and—most importantly—communities can accelerate change for the better. \nThe Berkman Klein Center is pleased to present this event in collaboration with the Belfer Center to highlight the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project and Bruce’s new book (with Amy Sample Ward) The Tech That Comes Next. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-tech-that-comes-next-how-changemakers-philanthropists-and-technologists-can-build-an-equitable-world-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220517T120000
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SUMMARY:The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for this virtual event by Monday\, May 16\, 3:00 PM ET. \nZuccotti Park\, the site of Occupy Wall Street\, and One Liberty Plaza\, the multi-billion-dollar tower\, represent a complex power play between public and private interests. In the digital realm\, social media grapples with a similar contention: social networks would not exist without platform businesses and yet their public benefits are at odds with the drive for private profit. \nJoin us for a special Berkman Klein Center Luncheon featuring Joanne Cheung\, who will discuss her research and open access article Real Estate Politik: Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks\, which emerged from the Berkman Klein Ethical Tech Working Group and was originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Social Computing\, “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (Part 1\, Part 2). \nCheung argues that “social networks are privately owned public spaces caught between the misaligned incentives of public good and private profit” and that their business models perpetuate historical inequities. \nCheung’s article also explores the structural problems with social media from the perspective of land use. She compares the financialization of attention by platforms with the financialization of land by commercial real estate development—and explores activist land use models for public interest technology. \nRSVP \nRSVP for this virtual event by Monday\, May 16\, 3:00 PM ET. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-tower-and-the-park-structural-misalignments-of-social-media-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220512T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220512T140000
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SUMMARY:CARGC Colloquium: EU Futures in the Disinformation Age | Annenberg Center for Communication
DESCRIPTION:The concatenation of European crises shows major transformations in the contemporary international arena and points to the reasons for a structural change in the modes and uses of European public diplomacy\, both inside and outside of EU institutions. Since 2008\, European institutions have learned to live in a state of crisis and response: the Eurozone crisis (2008)\, the Ukrainian issue (2014)\, the refugee movement (2015)\, the Brexit referendum (2016)\, the new transatlantic relationship (2017)\, and the COVID19 pandemic (2019). Each of these situations has caused a tremendous amount of stress and strain that has tested institutions and offered a lesson in international political communication as well. \nBut what’s new in the current Russian crisis? What’s the role of disinformation in the EU future? Why is disinformation recognized as the “biggest challenge and threat” to the EU power? In this context\, the construction of the enlightened dream of the EU is fading in the biggest political and economic crisis of its history. The fight against disinformation will be decisive in the future of the EU based not only on rational arguments\, but also on other attributes of public communication and political leadership. There is reason for hope. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cargc-colloquium-eu-futures-in-the-disinformation-age-annenberg-center-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Memory and Belief Regression After the Correction of Misinformation | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:The Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press\, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars\, and between them and the public. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/memory-and-belief-regression-after-the-correction-of-misinformation-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T110000
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SUMMARY:Operationalizing responsible AI | The Brookings Institution
DESCRIPTION:There is widespread agreement among ethicists and tech advocates that responsible AI principles requires fairness\, transparency\, privacy\, human safety\, and explanability. But it is not always clear how to operationalize these broad principles or how to handle situations when conflicts arise between them. Moving from the abstract to the concrete when developing algorithms often presents challenges as a focus on one goal can come at the detriment of alternative objectives. \nOn April 5\, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings will host an expert panel that will cover ways to operationalize responsible AI and move toward more concrete standards. Panelists will also discuss how to design appropriate algorithms and build technical capacity in the workforce. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/operationalizing-responsible-ai-the-brookings-institution/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T190000
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SUMMARY:Misinformation vs. The Machine: Foundations of News Literacy | The Colorado Sun
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Sun and News Literacy Project bring you a three-part series about helping leaders teach others about fact from fiction. \nAbout this event \nPart one: Foundations of News Literacy will focus on strategies students need to determine fact from fiction. Part one will be held virtually over Zoom on March 31 from 6-7 p.m. \nThe event series is open to anyone interested about learning about the topics\, helping others learn about fact vs. fiction. Information shared during the three-part series can help in work environments as well as educational environments when discussing current events\, news events. \nSpeakers include: \nElizabeth Price\, Manager of Professional Learning\, News Literacy Project \nChuck Plunkett\, Director\, University of Colorado News Corp \nRachel Liberman\, Teach Associate Professor\, Denver University College of Arts\, Humanities & Social Sciences \nThe moderator will be Larry Ryckman\, Editor\, The Colorado Sun. \nPart Two: Tumultuous Topics in the Classroom will be held virtually over Zoom on April 26 from 6-7 p.m. The topics will include looking into current events in the classroom\, and how teachers can strategically approach these issues in politically polarized times. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-vs-the-machine-foundations-of-news-literacy-the-colorado-sun/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T140000
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SUMMARY:Resisting and Reversing Western Media Imperialism?: Turkey’s Global Communication Outlets | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Since the 2010s\, Turkey’s ruling AKP government has vastly expanded its global communication apparatus to promote the country as a rising great power and the benevolent guardian of Muslims. In this presentation\, Bilge Yesil will analyze the political mechanisms and ideational frameworks that underlie the new English-language outlets the AKP and its proxies developed after the Gezi Park protests of 2013 — an event they interpreted as a Western ploy to overthrow the Erdogan government. In the post-Gezi period\, critical coverage of Erdogan soared in international news media and the AKP sought to rebuff them via newly-established print\, broadcast and digital outlets. Drawing on an analysis of official statements and government documents as well as interviews with media professionals that work/ed at state-run and pro-AKP news media\, Yesil argues that the Erdogan government views the global communication landscape as yet another battlefield in the ostensible conflict they posit between East and West\, and Western journalists as emissaries of imperialism. With all this in mind\, Yesil explores how the AKP conceptualizes its global communication machinery as a counter-hegemonic force and discuss the implications of the type of journalism its proxies perform. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/resisting-and-reversing-western-media-imperialism-turkeys-global-communication-outlets-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T140000
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SUMMARY:Mapping Political Trends Through Twitter | IPL Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar to launch IPL’s latest tool: the Congressional Tweet Tracker. We’ll show you how the tool can help you analyze trends in US immigration politics\, explain the AI methods that helped build it\, and describe its value for journalists\, advocacy groups\, and researchers. Discussion will include panelists from NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics\, and The MarkUp\, which focuses on data-driven journalism covering the ethics and impact of technology on society.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/mapping-political-trends-through-twitter-ipl-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T120000
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SUMMARY:The Present and Future of Misinformation in Canada | The Centre for Media\, Technology and Democracy at McGill University
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable focused on misinformation challenges in Canada and what\, if anything\, we can do about it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event \n\n\nThis year has been marked by an influx of misinformation\, from truckers motivated by COVID-19 medical misinformation to Russian information warfare and conspiracies about Ukrainian biolabs. Hear from an expert roundtable of journalists\, academics\, and other defenders against misinformation about what they have learned\, how it threatens democracy\, and how we can combat it. \n\n\n\n\nRoundtable Participants \nJustin Ling. Justin Ling is an award-winning investigative journalist who specializes in stories that are under-reported or misunderstood. He focuses on stories around misinformation\, conspiracy theories\, extremism\, policing\, and national security. \nGallit Dobner from Global Affairs Canada. Gallit Dobner is Director of the Centre for International Digital Policy at Global Affairs Canada\, with responsibility for the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism to counter foreign threats to democracy as well as broader issues at the intersection of foreign policy and technology. \nColette Brin from Université Laval. Colette Brin is a full professor in the Department of Information and Communication at Université Laval and Director of the Centre for Media Studies. As a former journalist by profession\, Colette Brin’s research has focused on a variety of contemporary issues facing news organizations\, from newsroom convergence and declining journalistic staffing to online public information practices and misinformation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-present-and-future-of-misinformation-in-canada-tickets-tue-29-mar-2022-at-1200-eventbrite/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T123000
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Ukraine and Content Moderation for News Media Sustainability | Annenberg School of Communication
DESCRIPTION:From combatting violent extremism to mitigating misinformation\, the news industry is caught in the middle of debates over how best to address a range of online harms. As regulators around the world consider new frameworks for content moderation\, it is important to understand how efforts to reduce harmful content online can be detrimental to free and critical media. Stringent moderation can result in the removal or demonetization of journalism\, which harms not only the sustainability of news media but also detracts from efforts to reduce disinformation and “fake news.” This roundtable will look critically at these problems and discuss how initiatives such as the Global Alliance for Responsible Media\, Ads for News and other collaborations between the private sector\, media and tech platforms are impacting news media and what we can learn from these types of voluntary\, self-regulatory approaches. This event is co-sponsored with UCLA’s Institute for Technology\, Law & Policy. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/roundtable-content-moderation-for-news-media-sustainability-annenberg-school-of-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T130000
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SUMMARY:A Citizen Perspective on Mis- and Disinformation | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Claes de Vreese\, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society at the University of Amsterdam\, addresses how citizens see mis- and disinformation. The talk analyzes how citizens perceive the phenomenon and who they see as the main culprits. He also explores misconceptions about how algorithms work and how this may aggravate the consequences of misinformation. Finally\, he reviews recent European initiatives specifically addressing mis- and disinformation. \nThis event is part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation\, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media\, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern University. \n[…]\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/a-citizen-perspective-on-mis-and-disinformation-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220321T133000
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CREATED:20211210T223812Z
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SUMMARY:CDCS Colloquium: All the News That's Fit to Click | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks\, likes\, comments\, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written\, how news is promoted\, and even which journalists get hired and fired. Do metrics make journalists more accountable to the public? Or are these data tools the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch wielded by a factory boss\, worsening newsroom working conditions and journalism quality? In All the News That’s Fit to Click\, Caitlin Petre takes readers behind the scenes at the New York Times\, Gawker\, and the prominent news analytics company Chartbeat to explore how performance metrics are transforming the work of journalism. \nPetre describes how digital metrics are a powerful but insidious new form of managerial surveillance and discipline. Many journalists get hooked on metrics—and pressure themselves to work ever harder to boost their numbers. Yet this is not a simple story of managerial domination. Contrary to the typical perception of metrics as inevitably disempowering\, Petre shows how some journalists leverage metrics to their advantage\, using them to advocate for their professional worth and autonomy. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cdcs-colloquium-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-click-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T130000
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SUMMARY:Stanford Cyber Policy Center Winter Webinar series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a weekly webinar series organized by the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. The webinar will take place every Tuesday\, starting January 11th from 12 PM – 1 PM PST over Zoom. \nThis quarter\, we feature a variety of speakers who will discuss working papers or projects at the intersection of free speech\, democracy\, security\, and digital communication technologies. Our speakers include those who focus on policy to others who concentrate on empirical work around cyber issues.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/stanford-cyber-policy-center-winter-webinar-series/
CATEGORIES:Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University":MAILTO:cyber-center@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T200000
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SUMMARY:Keynote: Free Speech in the Age of Misinformation | Hart House at the University of Toronto
DESCRIPTION:This year\, the Committee’s Keynote event addresses pathways for the preservation of free speech while mediating the harmful effects of misinformation in our present societies.\n\nFreedom of speech has long been considered a bastion of liberal\, open societies. However\, in the present era\, it is arguably no longer information that is scarce\, but our ability to process it. Misinformation\, trolling\, political division\, and mistrust in institutions have led us to ask: how can we\, as proponents of free speech in its ideal sense\, manage a marketplace of ideas riddled with lies? \nIn this event\, we bring together an American former ACLU president and law professor with a Canadian digital privacy expert and political scientist\, to delve into an interdisciplinary analysis of the present and future of free speech\, liberal discourse\, and the pursuit of truth in North America.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/keynote-free-speech-in-the-age-of-misinformation-hart-house-at-the-university-of-toronto/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T130000
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SUMMARY:Elihu Katz Colloquium: Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. '07)\, University of Delaware | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:About the Talk\nThe extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump favorability\, conservatism\, and Republicanism are associated with instinct-based epistemic values and a rejection of expertise and evidence. Results also indicate that these same epistemic motivations increase one’s likelihood of believing in misinformation in matters of both public and democratic health. Implications for democratic and public health will be discussed. \nMembers of the Annenberg community can pick up boxed lunches in Suite 200 prior to the event on a first come\, first served basis. \nAbout the Speaker\nDannagal G. Young (Ph.D. ’07) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content\, audience\, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over forty academic articles and book chapters on the content\, psychology\, appeal\, and effects of political information\, satire\, and misinformation.  Her book “Irony and Outrage“ (Oxford University Press\, 2020) examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives.  Her current book project\, “Wrong: How Identity Fuels Misinformation and How to Fix It\,” is under development with JHU Press. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/elihu-katz-colloquium-dannagal-g-young-ph-d-07-university-of-delaware-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T130000
DTSTAMP:20261024T083158
CREATED:20211228T165650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211228T171811Z
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SUMMARY:“I feel it in my gut”: Epistemic motivations\, political beliefs\, and misperceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 Election | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump favorability\, conservatism\, and Republicanism are associated with instinct-based epistemic values and a rejection of expertise and evidence. Results also indicate that these same epistemic motivations increase one’s likelihood of believing in misinformation in matters of both public and democratic health. Implications for democratic and public health will be discussed. \nDannagal G. Young (Ph.D. ’07) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content\, audience\, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over forty academic articles and book chapters on the content\, psychology\, appeal\, and effects of political information\, satire\, and misinformation.  Her book “Irony and Outrage” (Oxford University Press\, 2020) examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives.  Her current book project\, “Wrong: How Identity Fuels Misinformation and How to Fix It\,” is under development with JHU Press. \n[…]\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/i-feel-it-in-my-gut-epistemic-motivations-political-beliefs-and-misperceptions-of-covid-19-and-the-2020-election-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220227
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SUMMARY:Virtual Colloquium on Race\, Racism\, and American Media | Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute
DESCRIPTION:This event will explore historic and contemporary racial discrimination in all modalities of modern media. \nRegister Here \nGeorgetown University Racial Justice Institute \nThe University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One research institution and an EEO/AA institution \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/virtual-colloquium-on-race-racism-and-american-media-february-25-2022/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T140000
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SUMMARY:CARGC Colloquium: James Yékú\, University of Kansas | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:“Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship” \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT ON ZOOM \nAbout the Talk\nIts ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk\, James Yékú will track the implications of this ban in the context of what he has called cultural netizenship\, the organizing rubric for visual articulations of internet citizenship that often manifests through the performance of popular culture in an ontologically visual social web. Unlike the normative signals of netizenship as a performance of citizenship and participatory politics online\, cultural netizenship evokes the deployment of visual and popular culture on social media to push back against the boundaries of hegemonic culture. Based on social media-enabled cultural productions that underpin meme culture as the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and\, especially\, political commentary on digital media\, cultural netizenship as a reiteration of the generative materialism of African popular arts\, Yékú will argue\, is one notable and subversive practice in a complex system of relations between an analog state in Nigeria and digital subjects. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cargc-colloquium-james-yeku-university-of-kansas-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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SUMMARY:Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk\, James Yékú will track the implications of this ban in the context of what he has called cultural netizenship\, the organizing rubric for visual articulations of internet citizenship that often manifests through the performance of popular culture in an ontologically visual social web. Unlike the normative signals of netizenship as a performance of citizenship and participatory politics online\, cultural netizenship evokes the deployment of visual and popular culture on social media to push back against the boundaries of hegemonic culture. Based on social media-enabled cultural productions that underpin meme culture as the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and\, especially\, political commentary on digital media\, cultural netizenship as a reiteration of the generative materialism of African popular arts\, Yékú will argue\, is one notable and subversive practice in a complex system of relations between an analog state in Nigeria and digital subjects. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nigerias-twitter-ban-and-the-logic-of-cultural-netizenship-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Eric Freedman\, “Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans” | MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\nVideo game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided a common architecture for digital content creation across what were once distinct media verticals—film\, television\, video games and other immersive and interactive media forms that can leverage real-time 3D visualization. Game engines are the building blocks for efficient real-time visualization\, and they signal quite forcefully the colonizing influence of programming. Video game engines are powering our visual futures\, and engine developers that include Unity Technologies and Epic Games are rapidly iterating their products to tackle new markets\, where data and visuality continue to converge. This analysis\, which draws from software studies and studies of visual culture\, examines a tool that is fairly new to the Epic Games arsenal—the in-development MetaHuman Creator that is part of Epic’s proprietary Unreal Engine. MetaHuman creation is a fluid of process\, and the speedy transformation of character rigs and other non-binary attributes highlights the potential queerness or openness of data. Yet the ongoing push toward (hyper)realism in commercial media has birthed a visual economy which is supported by an industrial apparatus that privileges mastery over the tools of production\, and where bodies and politics are often cleaved in the design process. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/eric-freedman-non-binary-binaries-and-unreal-metahumans-mit-graduate-program-in-comparative-media-studies/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T120000
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SUMMARY:Hacking Online Virality | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:As social media become major channels for the diffusion of news and information\, it becomes critical to understand how the complex interplay between cognitive\, social\, and algorithmic biases triggered by our reliance on online social networks makes us vulnerable to manipulation and disinformation. This talk overviews ongoing network analytics\, modeling\, and machine learning efforts to study the viral spread of misinformation and to develop tools for countering the online manipulation of opinions. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/hacking-online-virality-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T123000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism Tickets\, Thu\, 27 Jan 2022 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism\n\nJoin us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices book launch and speaker series!\n\nAbout this event\n\nBringing together contributors of the book\, this speaker series explores how feminists employ a variety of online platforms\, practices\, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual\, consumerist\, white feminism in favor of collective\, tangible action.\n\nThis session approaches to exploring networking feminisms.\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/speaker-series-session-1-conceptual-frameworks-for-networked-feminism-tickets-thu-27-jan-2022-at-1100-am-eventbrite/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220125T130000
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SUMMARY:FSI | Cyber - Inclusive Content Moderation Is Innovative Content Moderation
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, January 25 from 12 PM – 1 PM PT for “Inclusive Content Moderation Is Innovative Content Moderation” featuring Aerica Shimizu Banks\, founder of Shiso in conversation with Julie Owono\, executive director of the Content Policy and Society Lab. This weekly seminar series is jointly organized by the Cyber Policy Center’s Program on Democracy and the Internet and the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. \nContent moderation policies are perhaps the most scrutinized aspects of online platform operations\, and are implicated in the most urgent current and political events globally. And yet\, companies struggle to meet the moment\, in part because of historical ignorance of a foundational component to adaptive policies: inclusion and accessibility. In creating the Beyond The Statement: Tech Framework for Color Of Change\, Aerica Shimizu Banks illuminated a pathway to consistent and nimble innovation through  the “Curb-Cut Effect” of inclusive practices and policies. This presentation will explore how she found\, through developing this framework\, that the more inclusive a policy\, the more innovative possibilities become for content moderation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/fsi-cyber-inclusive-content-moderation-is-innovative-content-moderation/
CATEGORIES:Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University":MAILTO:cyber-center@stanford.edu
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SUMMARY:Combating Health-Related Misinformation and Disinformation | University of Minnesota School of Public Health
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that health-related misinformation and disinformation can dangerously undermine the response to a public health crisis. Misleading information\, intentional or not\, has a myriad of effects\, including reduced trust in public health responders\, increased belief in false medical cures\, and politicization of public health measures. The spread of these falsehoods has led to more infections\, deaths\, disruption\, and disorganization of the effort to combat the pandemic\, and it is likely these problems will persist in future public health emergencies. In this talk\, Dr. Sell will describe ways to understand the how and why misinformation infiltrates our public discourse and potential paths forward in combating health-related misinformation and disinformation. \nFree and Open to the Public \nThe lecture honors the memory of Carl J. Martinson\, MD\, who founded the Minnetonka Hospital\, The Martinson Clinic\, and who actively promulgated good health habits as the way to a productive\, long\, happy life. \n[…]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta  \n\n #post-x  \n Event footer  \n #tribe-events-footer  \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/combating-health-related-misinformation-and-disinformation-university-of-minnesota-school-of-public-health/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T133000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Discriminating Data: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Sarah Banet-Weiser | Annenberg
DESCRIPTION:In Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \nChun\, who has a background in systems design engineering as well as media studies and cultural theory\, explains that although machine learning algorithms may not officially include race as a category\, they embed whiteness as a default. Facial recognition technology\, for example\, relies on the faces of Hollywood celebrities and university undergraduates—groups not famous for their diversity. Homophily emerged as a concept to describe white U.S. resident attitudes to living in biracial yet segregated public housing. Predictive policing technology deploys models trained on studies of predominantly underserved neighborhoods. Trained on selected and often discriminatory or dirty data\, these algorithms are only validated if they mirror this data. \n[…]\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/book-talk-discriminating-data-wendy-hui-kyong-chun-in-conversation-with-sarah-banet-weiser-annenberg/
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SUMMARY:The January 6 insurrection: One year later | The Brookings Institution
DESCRIPTION:Nearly one year ago\, a violent mob broke into the United States Capitol in an effort to halt the certification of the electoral vote and overturn the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump. The insurrection was\, thankfully\, unsuccessful. But its echoes continue to reverberate today: Many in the Republican Party attempt to deny\, minimize\, or normalize the legacy of the attempted coup\, while investigators in both the Justice Department and Congress continue to dig into exactly what happened that day. \nOn January 6\, 2022\, an expert panel will reflect on the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot and discuss its lasting effects. What have Americans learned over the last year about the causes of the riot and the people who attended and engineered it? How have government institutions responded—or failed to respond—to the violence? And how should we understand what January 6 means for the health of American democracy going forward? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-january-6-insurrection-one-year-later-the-brookings-institution/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T163000
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SUMMARY:Reducing Harm on Social Media: Research & Design Ideas | NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics
DESCRIPTION:When social media platforms first launched nearly two decades ago\, they were seen as a force for good – a way to connect with family and friends\, learn and explore new ideas\, and engage with social and political movements. Yet\, as the Facebook Papers and other research have documented\, these same platforms have become vectors of misinformation\, hate speech\, and polarization. \nWith attention around social media’s impact on society at an all-time high\, this event gathers researchers and practitioners from across the academic\, policy\, and tech communities to discuss various approaches and interventions to make social media a safer and more civil place. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/reducing-harm-on-social-media-research-design-ideas-nyus-center-for-social-media-and-politics/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States\, Brazil\, and France | Center for Democracy & Technology
DESCRIPTION:A newly released report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States\, Brazil\, and France – published by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)\, explores recent case studies of election disinformation in the U.S.\, Brazil\, and France. It also examines tactics for mitigating the problem\, including interventions by governments\, platforms\, and civil society. \nOn December 15\, from 11 am-12 pm ET\, CDT and KAS will host a webinar event to introduce the report and its findings. Three of the report’s authors—one from each country—and a leading researcher on online disinformation will participate in a panel discussion\, followed by Q&A. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/a-lie-can-travel-election-disinformation-in-the-united-states-brazil-and-france-center-for-democracy-technology/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T130000
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SUMMARY:Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw on research from “Wearing Many Hats\,” a forthcoming Data & Society report authored by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman. Dr. Coleman describes her talk as follows: \nOur report examines the transformative period in which many hackers moved from a vilified underground subculture into a domain of respected professionalism\, playing a privileged role in establishing contemporary cybersecurity protocols and agendas. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/security-by-spectacle-the-invention-of-gray-hat-hacking-the-fight-against-microsoft-in-the-1990s-berkman-klein-center/
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