Rest of World Labor x Tech Reporting Fellowship | Rest of World
Rest of World is excited to announce a new opportunity for reporters native to regions outside the West who want to produce a deeply reported body of work on how […]
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Steering AI for the Public Good: A Dialogue for the Future | Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University Princeton, NJ, United StatesRecent, rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment have demonstrated technology’s potential to drastically transform and potentially improve the lives of many people across the world. From unlocking […]
The Joint Computation + Journalism European Data & Computational Journalism Conference
ETH Zurich Zurich, SwitzerlandThe Joint Computation+Journalism and European Data & Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production. It will be hosted […]
Meet the future of AI (and us!): registration for the event now open | vera.ai VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
HybridMaarten Schenk is co-founder of Belgian fact-checking outlet Lead Stories. He is very active in the field of debunking. At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, DW’s Jochen Spangenberg asked […]
Call for papers: The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024 | DSA Observatory
To coincide with the Digital Services Act (DSA) becoming directly applicable across the EU on 17 February 2024, the DSA Observatory at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, […]
“Whose data is it anyway? Ethical, practical, and methodological challenges of data donation in messenger groups research” | WI Methods Lab
HybridWhen: Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, 1–4 pm Where: Weizenbaum Institute + Zoom (hybrid) Registration: https://forms.gle/7NJngW7Ty4c8TWs3A Messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal, are increasingly used for all forms of political […]
Conferences | SUNY Council on Writing
Stony Brooke UniversityCall for Proposals, 2023 “Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence” Join us October 13–14, 2023, for a virtual conference hosted by the SUNY […]
Workshop on Responsible and Open Foundation Models | Open foundation models
VirtualIn the last year, open foundation models have proliferated widely. Given the rapid adoption of these models, cultivating a responsible open source AI ecosystem is crucial and urgent. Our workshop […]
The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after Twitter | Annenberg Public Policy Center
Annenberg Public Policy Center 202 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PAIf you use social media data in your research, you’re going to want to listen up, because we’ve reached a crisis point. Digital data access has survived in an uncomfortable […]
AI for Humanity and Society 2023 | WASP-HS
As we face an increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday practices, it becomes more critical than ever to examine how AI affects our lives and society. Researchers in the […]
Are Psychological Inoculations Against Misinformation Likely to be Effective at Scale? A Discussion Between Sander van der Linden and Gordon Pennycook | Shorenstein Center
HybridThis 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 […]
Online Content Moderation from the Trenches: Veterans Who Have Fought the Fight | R Street Institute
HybridOnline content moderators have a difficult and thankless job: delivering results and determining what you see on the web. But what do they actually do, and how do they do […]
Call for Applications: The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy | TPRC
American University Washington College of Law Washington D.C, District of ColumbiaTPRC is the preeminent annual interdisciplinary conference on communications, information, and Internet policy that convenes researchers and policymakers from law, economics, engineering, computer science, public policy, data science, social sciences, […]
Emerging directions in news use research: Project launch event and open conference | University of Surrey
VirtualThis event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust funded parents’ news use project – which runs from the fall of 2023 to the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use […]
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI | University of Virginia
ZoomCall for Papers: Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due July 18, 2024: Date […]
Good Systems Symposium HUB | UT Austin
Join Good Systems at UT Austin for its fourth annual symposium exploring the future of human-centered, values-driven artificial intelligence. Connect with an interdisciplinary and cross-sector community of faculty leaders, researchers, […]
Preserving Digital Images and Data: Procedural, Policy, and Privacy Issues | Good Systems
Zoom21st century media pose challenges to preserving the historical record. Collecting institutions need guidance and new strategies in order to save selective cellphone video, GPS data, and video from surveillance […]
Understanding Media Habits & Engaging Latino Communities – CSMaP
VirtualLatinos are the largest racial and ethnic group in the United States, comprising more than 60 million people. Yet, researchers know comparatively little about the information Latinos consume online, and […]
Disinfo Day
University of Texas at Austin , United StatesHosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Good Systems’ “Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Protect Information Integrity” research team, this virtual event brings together researchers and thought leaders working across […]
2nd Annual Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium | Good Systems
University of Texas at Austin , United StatesThe Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium is a day-long gathering of interdisciplinary professionals across academia and industry to inform, examine, and discuss how generative artificial intelligence impacts our cities. […]
What is the Cloud Doing to the Internet? | WZB
WZB Berlin Social Science Center Reichpietschufer 50, 10785, Berlin, Raum, GermanyThe future of the Internet is (in) the cloud. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS), rather than platforms like X or Meta, will become the tech industry’s most […]
Internet & Society: The Trans-Atlantic Research Future | Internet Democracy Initiative
Northeastern University LondonIn May 2024, the Internet Democracy Initiative will host an Internet and Society Conference at the Northeastern University-London campus. Like the IDI, the conference will focus on the role of […]
The Material Conditions of Platform Governance | Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)
ZoomIn this talk, we present a methodological outlook for empirical and historical studies of platforms, emphasizing their unique characteristics like programmability and multisidedness. We explore how web archives play a […]
Big Tech Feminism | WZB
WZB Berlin Social Science Center Reichpietschufer 50, 10785, Berlin, Raum, GermanyStrange as it may seem, Big Tech has become feminist. Meta has a team devoted to women’s safety. Venmo monitors its app for gender-based discrimination. Bumble aspires to make misogyny […]