Social Media’s Role in the US Election | All Tech is Human
The 2016 US election made it clear that social media companies play a profound role in how voters are informed and influenced. What role should social media companies be playing […]
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The Common Room: Managing Political Difference on the Virtual Campus | PEN America
The 2020 general election is unlike any other. Understanding how campuses can facilitate respectful and productive dialogue across political differences will be key during this tense time, but doing so […]
CSMaP Seminar Series: Moving closer or further apart? | CSMaP
Journalists and pundits have described political polarization as one of the foremost problems of our time. It has been ascribed to trends such as changing party compositions, racial and ethnic […]
We have seen the enemy…and he is us: When engineering culture collides with human rights advocacy online | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
In this talk, I explain what happens when human rights advocates try to change computer code, instead of legal code to protect human rights online. There is a growing chorus […]
Where, What, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure? | Stanford PACS
Imagine living in a society in which most of the land and buildings available for meeting and working were owned by a few for-profit corporations. Churches, governments, groups of friends, […]
Where, What, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure? | Stanford PACS
Imagine living in a society in which most of the land and buildings available for meeting and working were owned by a few for-profit corporations. Churches, governments, groups of friends, […]
When good is the enemy of great: Rural broadband in a time of COVID | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
With the global onset of COVID-19, broadband access has never been more vital to our economies, democracies, and social well-being. The pandemic, however, painfully demonstrated the extent to which people […]
‘Understanding Digital Racism After COVID-19’ with Professor Lisa Nakamura | Oxford Internet Institute
The Oxford Internet Institute hosts Lisa Nakamura, lisanakamura.net, Director, Digital Studies Institute, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Nakamura is the […]
Book Launch: Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society | University of Toronto
On November 10, Ronald J. Deibert, renowned technology and security expert, will discuss the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity. In […]
The Common Room: Confronting Threats and Harassment Against Faculty | PEN America
Hate and harassment have proliferated online in recent years, posing serious threats to college and university faculty. Women, BIPOC, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community continue to be disproportionately targeted […]
Academic Writing Month Webinar: Publishing Trends and Academic Writers | Social Science Space
From scholarly article to practical guides, from textbooks to media, from weighty tomes to tweets, researchers and academic writers have many options today. While academic writers still write books and […]
Technology Does Not Operate in a Vacuum: The Impact of Women’s Mobile Phone Ownership on Economic Well-being in Tanzania |PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
In many emerging economies, a significant mobile gender gap persists—in which women not only have less access to mobile internet and mobile money, but continue to lag in mobile phone […]
Center for Media at Risk Lecture: Young Mie Kim | Annenberg School for Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Do digital platforms function as stealth media, a system that enables the deliberate operations of undisclosed political campaigns’ imperceptible targeting and furtive messaging? This talk presents empirical research on covert […]
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Cervantes Convention Center St. Louis, Missouri, United States> “We are thrilled to announce the theme of the 2020 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in St. Louis, MO: Truth and Responsibility. “Truth and Responsibility” is a call to […]
‘There’s an app for that: Tech governance during COVID-19’ | Oxford Internet Institute
Following the publication of Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives, the Oxford Internet Institute is hosting a discussion among leading experts to reflect on the enduring lessons for technological governance […]
Organizing Online Foreign Influence Efforts: Lessons from Topic Models and Content-Based Detection | Shorenstein Center
Since 2014 there have been at least 74 nation-state led online influence campaigns targeting other countries through deceptive social media, with 21 of those in 2019 alone. How are such […]
RxT: Algorithms and Accountability | Rights x Tech
Event Listing Header Algorithms touch each and every aspect of modern democratic life. While technology has created some ease, there has also been friction and harms, often in discrete or […]