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Vaccine Passports with Ada Lovelace Institute | Data & Society

Data & Society and the Ada Lovelace Institute will co-host a discussion about the next frontier of COVID-19 roll-outs: vaccine passports. To facilitate a global understanding of possible vulnerabilities that will arise from vaccine passport adoption, we are bringing together Data & Society Researcher, Ranjit Singh, public health ethicist, Amy Fairchild, and Imogen Parker, Head of Policy at Ada Lovelace Institute, […]

Black Feminist Health Science Studies Symposium | MIT & Northeastern University

Event Listing Header Edit notification Event Listing Body Listing Hero Details The first Black Feminist Health Science Studies Symposium is an introduction to the field and collective that claim the name. Join us as we talk about the need to integrate Black feminism into science, medicine, technology, and health.  

COVID-19 from the Margins | Berkman Klein Center

In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. The event invites participants to explore the pandemic from the perspective of communities and individuals at the margins in the Global South and beyond.  It introduces the editorial project of the same title.

Webcast: The Battle of Algorithms | MIT Technology Review

As machine learning applications move into the mainstream, a new era of cyber-threat is emerging – one that uses offensive AI to supercharge attack campaigns. Offensive AI allows attackers to automate reconnaissance, craft tailored impersonation attacks, and even self-propagate to avoid detection. Security teams can prepare for this eventuality by turning to defensive AI to […]

Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future | Center for Brooklyn History

If the speed that the world is changing makes you want to crawl into a cave, if you fret over the impact of technology, the fracturing of democratic institutions, the future of humanity, then Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman have ideas you want to hear. Roose, technology columnist for the New York Times, has a […]

A Study of Confucius Institute Teachers Around the World | Shorenstein Center

Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. Her research resides at the intersection of political communication and authoritarian politics, showing how authoritarian governments work to shape public attitudes […]

Achieving Digital Equity in India, Pakistan, and Beyond | New America

Digital inclusion is about having the right access, skills, motivation and trust to confidently go online. Today’s network infrastructure is the lifeline on which much of modern life depends. Without it, the ramifications of Covid-19 would have been far more severe. As the internet becomes a public utility that shapes our social, political, and economic […]

Kate Crawford – Atlas of AI | Digital Democracies Institute

Event Listing Header Prof. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She holds the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, is a senior principal researcher at MSR, and an Honorary Professor at the University […]

The Challenges Ahead in Covering Environmental and Climate Justice | Shorenstein Center

Is environmental justice finally getting more coverage, as media outlets address the disproportionate impact of serious environmental problems on communities of color, the poor and the marginalized? Three leading journalists will discuss the challenges ahead in covering environmental and climate justice in the United States and around the globe: Somini Sengupta of The New York Times; Justin Worland of Time Magazine;  […]

Edgelands Institute Launch Event | Berkman Klein Center

The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass-urbanization, surveillance, pandemics, and other emergencies, currently being incubated at the Berkman Klein Center. The Institute stems from the perception that the rapid deployment of surveillance technologies in cities to provide security services is reshaping how we interact […]

Disinformation’s Consequences | Shorenstein Center

Event Meta end author Event content The consequences of disinformation came into sharp relief in the coordinated and violent attack on the United States Capitol on January 6th.  Social media platforms intensify the speed of misleading communication that promoted lies, misrepresentations, and deceptive sourcing to energize groups.  This was a concerted and organized campaign to […]