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Big Tech’s Impact on Public Purpose: How Recent Decisions Will Shape Society | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The recent decision by Big Tech to ban prominent politicians, including President Donald Trump, and enforce strict content moderation against hate speech, mis/disinformation, and violence is a new precedent that could prove consequential for the future of online speech—and for the future of democracy. Join Belfer Center’s Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project as it […]

Episode 37: Posts, platforms and power | Knight Foundation

After a mob stormed the Capitol, major technology platforms acted nearly in unison – some said belatedly, others tyrannically – to “deplatform” President Trump and many other right-wing users of their services. How did we arrive at this unprecedented action, what’s at stake for our democracy, and what does this mean for the future? On […]

The Storming of the Capitol and the Future of Speech Online | Stanford

Social media and digital technologies have come under fire for their contribution to the development of the groups that ultimately stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Following the insurrection attempt, Facebook, Twitter, Google and other major platforms have banned or suspended President Trump’s accounts. Google and Apple removed Parler from their app stores, while […]

Civic Technology and ethnography: navigating theory, politics and power | Oxford Internet Institute

Join us for a discussion on how ethnographic theory and ethnographic practice are incorporated in civic technology projects in the US. A small panel will discuss the ways that qualitative research, political power and technology meet in government internet projects. Dr Andrew Schrock, OII alum and author of “Civic Tech: Making Technology Work for People”, […]

Technology and Governance: Exploring law and innovation in the absence of state governance | The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP)

Innovation and technological advancements are continuous, evolving products of knowledge consolidation, human ingenuity, and adaptive capacity. New forms of communication, banking, farming, and transportation technology have transformed the physical and social landscape of a rapidly globalizing world. Innovation often emerges in the face of a challenge, when the status quo fails to adequately meet the […]

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White Surveillance and Black Digital Publics | Berkman Klein Center

Dr. Apryl A. Williams and Dr. Allissa V. Richardson address the long-standing history of White vigilante-style surveillance of Black people in public spaces, exploring the role of White women in extending the power of the state to surveil and regulate the movement of Black people in public – tying in Karen actors with historical examples such as Emmitt […]

Tech-enabled dis- and misinformation, social platforms, and geopolitics | Atlantic Council

Join the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center and Digital Forensic Research Lab on Wednesday, February 3, at 12:00 p.m. ET for a special “GeoTech Hour” on the role that social media platforms play in enabling modern mis- and disinformation. In an age of hyper-connectivity and expansive digitization, social platforms play an outsized role in public life, serving as a sort of infrastructure […]

Big, If True Webinar: Amplified Hate and its Effects | Shorenstein Center

Join Joan Donovan, PhD for a Big, If True Webinar on community understandings of networked hate groups and conspiracies with guests Brandi Collins-Dexter, Molly Conger, Emily Gorcenski, Kathleen Belew, PhD, and Whitney Phillips, PhD. Our panelists will discuss: how can journalists contextualize hate movements for a broader public without amplifying their agendas? How can civil […]

The Rights and Limits of Free Speech | Center for Brooklyn History Talk

In the wake of the lies told at the January 6 rally that resulted in the assault on our nation’s Capitol building, Ian Rosenberg’s new book “The Fight for Free Speech” provides an urgent perspective on the limits and protections of the First Amendment. From taking a knee to Nazi protests, from MAGA rallies to […]

The Geopolitics of Emerging Tech During the Pandemic | Atlantic Council

Corporations and governments alike continue to struggle with technology policy, especially under the strain of a global pandemic which struck at a moment when the Internet is mature enough to alleviate many of COVID’s harms while also facing novel geopolitical challenges to its design and use. These turbulences have not just tested every facet of […]

The Contagion of Stigmatization: Racism and Discrimination in the “Infodemic” Moment | Digital Society Network

This talk discusses the “secondary contagion” of racism (Chen et al 2020) and other forms of social stigmatization unleashed by the coronavirus outbreak in global context. I begin with a critique of how cultural biases in journalistic reporting and official speech have often reinforced racial prejudices and hierarchies and contributed to the stigmatization and shaming […]

TEC Talks “Misinformation and Disinformation” | ThinkND

Speaker: Joan Donovan Conspiracy theories and other false claims have always been part of our discourse, even (and perhaps especially) our politics. But modern technologies seem to have changed the scale of the problem, with profound implications for our culture and for democracy. This series focuses on the role of technology in promoting mis- and […]

Health Tech And Innovation | General Assembly Dallas

Ever wondered how the industry got to where it is today? The answer likely lies in tech. Overview:​ At this exclusive panel event, we host thought-leaders from a specific industry — such as finance, food, or art — to explore new intersections between their field and technology. Together, we discuss how they’ve been impacted by […]

News, Empire and the Making of Global Information Industries | Media, Telecommunications, and Empire Conference

Panel 1: “News, Empire and the Making of Global Information Industries” Tuesday, February 16th Panel 2: “Telecommunications– Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Empire” Tuesday, March 9th Panel 3: “Global Governance– Regulating International Communications in Decolonization and Globalization” Tuesday, March 23rd Panel 4: “Knowledge Regimes– the Past, Present, and Future of Communications in/for Decolonization and Development” Tuesday, April […]

CARGC Colloquium: Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Anti-Hate Activism in South Korea | Annenberg School for Communication

In this presentation, digital media are analyzed as a key battlefield in the intense cultural and political conflict between feminists and misogynists that has been playing out in South Korea since 2013. Drawing on textual, discursive, and institutional analyses of digital media platforms and interviews with feminist activists, Kim shows how new modes of feminist […]

Emerging into the Future: Trends in Law, Medicine and Technology Post-Pand | Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law

In barely a year, Covid-19 has transformed from a localized outbreak to a global pandemic and, in the process, dramatically altered the existence of individuals, nations and the international community. As the world has progressed through the phases of the pandemic, it is currently faced with the paradox of significant increases in cases of and […]

Computation + Journalism Symposium 2021

C+J 2021 — A virtual gathering From the outset, 2020 looked like it would be a year of data and computation in journalism. Think of the events that were planned — from the 2020 Presidential Election to the decennial census, to the Summer Olympics, to the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Each of these stories […]

“The True Costs of Misinformation: Producing Moral and Technical Order in a Time of Pandemonium,” a lecture by Dr. Joan Donovan | UC Berkley Social Science Matrix

It feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents, white supremacists, conspiracists, snake oil salesmen, political operatives, white academics, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers have in common? The groups have collided in a centrifuge of chaos online, where the tactics they use to hide their identities and manipulate audiences are […]