RxT: Justice, Data & Safety in a Pandemic
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First Amendment Disrupted? The State of Freedom of Expression in the US | Gallup
“Join Gallup and the John S. and James. L Knight Foundation for a discussion on the future of the freedom of expression in the U.S. and the state of free […]
The Shift: Public Space | Institute for Public Knowledge
Webinar“NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Civic Signals, The Social Science Research Council, and The Knight Foundation invite you to a discussion on public spaces in the series on “The Shift,” […]
The Crisis in Local News | The Aspen Institute
“Local news, in crisis before the pandemic, is now facing a cataclysm. Advertising has plummeted. Print has no market. And consolidation has driven record cuts. At stake is not just […]
Cyber Policy Center Online Series | National AI Strategies and Human Rights: New Urgency in the Era of COVID-19
Webinar“National AI Strategies and Human Rights: New Urgency in the Era of COVID-19, takes place Wednesday, May 6th, at 10am PST with Eileen Donahoe, the Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi) […]
Vision: Flattening the infodemic curve with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble | The Knight Foundation
“The COVID-19 crisis has generated a wave of misinformation that is undermining trust in the media and government institutions. Join us live as Sam Gill speaks with Dr. Safiya Umoja […]
Cyber and Covid-19 | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Webinar“COVID-19 is having a profound impact on our online systems – exposing both the essential role they can and do play in our modern society, and the risks and vulnerabilities […]
COVID-19 and the US Democratic Process | NetGain
Webinar“COVID-19 has exposed the susceptibility of our democratic processes to digital shortcomings, including increasing uncertainty around the ability to carry out free, fair, and safe elections in 2020 as well […]
Coronavirus and the 2020 Election | JFK Presidential Library
“EJ Dionne, Washington Post columnist and political commentator; Janet Hook, staff writer at The Los Angeles Times; and Ronald Brownstein, senior editor at The Atlantic, discuss implications of the novel coronavirus for the 2020 elections. Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty moderates […]
Cyber Policy Center Online Series | May 20
Webinar“Kate Starbird and her team will be speaking about a new project that looks at how scientific findings and science credentials are mobilized in the spread of misinformation. Additional information, […]
On Race and Technoculture | Data & Society
Webinar“Join us online for a talk with André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, in conversation with Data & Society’s Director of Research Sareeta Amrute as part of Data […]
The Executive Order on Platforms and Online Speech: Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center Responds | FSI Cyber
“On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order threatening to revoke CDA 230 protections, which would expose social media companies to increased liability for content that is posted on their […]
Disinformation Systems During the Fight for Racial Justice
“On Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of posts are circulating saying that George Floyd is not actually dead. Conspiracy theorists are baselessly arguing that George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic […]
The COVID-19 pandemic: Big tech, privatization, surveillance, AI and the rush for data | REDE4BlackLives
“Naomi Klein and LLana James lay out the epic stakes of the growing struggles around data, technology, AI and COVID-19. Power, race(ism), and money shape every development related to big […]
ICWSM 2020
Webinar“The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn […]
Online Event: “Lie Machines: How Disinformation Threatens Democracy and How to Save It” | NED
“While disinformation is not new to politics, today’s technologies enable political actors to manipulate the information ecosystem at scale and with great speed. Through massive networks of fake accounts, junk […]
Disinformation, Digital Hate, and Big Tech | NetGain
Webinar“The proliferation of COVID-19 disinformation and misinformation on the internet has increased denial and uncertainty about the outbreak across the internet, while hateful content and speech has further stoked xenophobia […]
Big Tech’s Increasing Power | NetGain
Webinar“The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 will further strengthen big tech’s hold over the economy and society, without intervention. Already, small businesses and retail outlets across the country are in […]
VISION Episode 10: Free Expression on College Campuses with Dr. Wayne Frederick and Suzanne Nossel | Knight Foundation
What do today’s college students think about free expression on campus, and how do they understand the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment? How has COVID-19 changed the way college […]
Civic life in the digital public square | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
COVID-19 has had a profound effect on how communities connect. Shelter-in-place policies have shifted the majority of our social interactions online, driving the transition to the digital public square. What […]
Vision Episode 11: The Harm in Online Speech with Mary Anne Franks | Knight Foundation
Can content on the internet harm people? How do you apply the First Amendment to online content? How can we ensure online platforms serve their purpose while keeping people safe? […]
Big, If True Webinar: Fighting a Two-Front War: Censorship and Disinformation in Southeast Asia | Shorenstein Center
In this episode of BIG, If True, we’ll reflect on the hybrid battles being waged by journalists, activists, and dissidents against censorship and disinformation in Southeast Asia. The discussion will […]
SRCCON 2020
SRCCON 2020 will be fully online and in the midst of both a global crisis and a reckoning within journalism. We expect that in some ways, it will be unlike […]
Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Portals with Ruha Benjamin | The Carr Center for Human Rights | Harvard Kennedy School
Join us for a conversation with Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Panelists: Ruha Benjamin | Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University Sushma […]
Stand with the Facts: Community Solutions to Combat Misinformation | KUOW & the Center for an Informed Public on
With so much information being shared online and on social media during the pandemic and protests, how do we weed out the misinformation from the facts in our newsfeeds? Is […]
Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference emerges out of 20 years of relationship-building across issues, identities, organizing practices and creative mediums. Since the first conference (then the Midwest Zine Conference) in 1999, […]
RightsCon Online 2020
RightsCon is the world’s leading event on human rights in the digital age. Originally called the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, RightsCon rotated annually between San Francisco and another global […]
Digital Disinformation: Jane Lytvynenko, Buzzfeed News | Data & Society | American Press Institute
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the ways mis- and disinformation corrupt public narratives and shape public opinion. False information is already driving conversations about the election.
What does it Mean to Protest Today? Media Manipulation and the Movement for Black Lives | Shorenstein Center
What does it Mean to Protest Today? Media Manipulation and the Movement for Black Lives, the first workshop in the TaSC series*, will feature a conversation with Dr. Joan Donovan, […]
Joint Conference on Right-Wing Studies & Research on Male Supremacism Tickets | Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies & Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
Event Listing Header Register for the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies/Institute for Research on Male Supremacism virtual conference to join other researchers focused on the right-wing and male supremacism for […]