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 […]
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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 […]
Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading content can diminish trust in the results of electoral contests, […]
Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic – A Special Livestream Event and Podcast with Dr. Anthony Fauci | The George Washington University
Join us this Wednesday, August 19th, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., for a special live edition of “Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic” with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and […]
The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation During the Pandemic | Shorenstein Center
The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation during the Pandemic, the second workshop in the series, will feature a conversation with Dr. Joan Donovan, Research Director of the […]
Addressing Deepfakes in the U.S. 2020 Elections | Center for an Informed Public
In mid July, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), together with Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program, brought together leaders across different sectors for three days of roundtable […]
Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field and Prospects for Reform | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Please join Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics to discuss our recently released book on Social Media and Democracy: The State of […]
Election Disinformation: Using Media Literacy to Spot It and Stop It | PEN America
Join PEN America for a live and interactive media literacy training on Thursday, September 10 at 6:30pm ET to discuss best practices and defense strategies to combat election disinformation this fall. […]
MisinfoCon Webinar on Police Misinformation | MisinfoCon & MuckRock
Misinformation and disinformation originating from law enforcement sources, which has lately included Antifa raids, brick piles, poisoned milkshakes and more, has sparked considerable interest in the past few months. But […]
Combatting COVID-19 misinformation with machine learning (VB Live) | VentureBeat
Misinformation around COVID-19 is driving human behavior across the world. Here in the information age, sensationalized clickbait headlines are crowding out actual fact-based content, and, as a result misinformation spreads virally. […]
Fake News and Social Media Disinformation | Northeastern University & World Affairs Council-Seattle
Event Listing Header Northeastern University-Seattle and the World Affairs Council-Seattle co-sponsor a panel discussion featuring media and political experts talking about what’s real and what’s not, and how to reclaim […]
Jill Lepore Discusses “If Then” with SSRC board member danah boyd | Data & Society
Data & Society presents its first-ever collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library in this online talk with historian Jill Lepore, who will discuss her new book If Then, a story of “trying […]
2020 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference | IJPP
.entry-header I am delighted to share the program of the 2020 conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics. For the first time, the conference will be held virtually. The online […]
The Future of Democracy: Science, technology, and social inequality
How is the pandemic changing our nation’s social structures? Does access to technology change who can succeed now and in the future? On Episode 22 of “The Future of Democracy,” […]
Fighting Election Disinformation with First-Time Voters | PEN America
Join PEN America on Wednesday, September 30 at 6:30pm ET for a live and interactive media literacy workshop that will focus on examples of mis/disinformation targeting first-time voters and helpful […]
Twitter and the infodemic: The Future of Democracy | Knight Foundation
As the nation continues to grapple with the pandemic, we’ve also had to manage a rising “infodemic,” an overabundance of misinformation about COVID-19. Recent Gallup/Knight research shows that a majority […]
Who Votes, Who Doesn’t and Why It Matters | 92Y
A little more than half of eligible voters participated in recent elections which means … close to half did not. Who doesn’t vote and why? Join 92Y for a discussion […]
Networked Dissent: Social Media and Protest Participation | CSMaP Seminar Series
This fall, the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics will bring together leading scholars to explore the relationship between new media technologies and democratic politics. Our virtual CSMaP Seminar […]
Follow the Ad: Uncovering Election Interference behind Data-Driven Digital Platforms | Shorenstein Center
Election interference raises grave normative concerns. Unfortunately, due to conceptual and methodological challenges, little scientific knowledge has been generated about election interference. This talk discusses the mechanisms by which election […]
Ethics of Big Data Symposium: Race, Representation & Justice | Marquette University
As we look at the events of 2020, we cannot ignore how issues of race, representation, and justice intersect with the growing reliance on data, algorithims, and computational approaches in nearly […]
Media Literacy | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Social media sites have now surpassed cable, network, and local TV as primary sources of political news for one-in-five Americans. Yet the speed and volume of online information, challenges discerning the credibility of online […]
Teaching in the time of Fake News and an Election | Macmillan Learning
This is the most exciting and challenging time to be teaching Mass Communication. Bettina Fabos and Chris Martin – coauthors of Media and Culture as well as Media Essentials – […]
WEBINAR: Behind the Decision Desk: Fox News, the AP, CNN, and What To Expect on Election Night | PEN America
Join PEN America and decision desk editors at the Associated Press, Fox News, and CNN to discuss election calls, projections, and how news organizations plan to navigate the challenges of […]
Data and Democracy Symposium | Knight First Amendment Institute
Today, governments and private actors can collect, store, and continuously update vast troves of data. Yet we have barely begun to understand the impact on our democracy of large-scale data […]
Conference for Truth and Trust Online
What is Truth and Trust Online? While trustworthy online spaces benefit everyone, untrustworthy content and behaviour can divide, confuse, and cause real harm. The annual Conference for Truth and Trust […]
False News and Fact-Checking: Information Flows During a Pandemic and Presidential Election | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics: Election Seminar Series
Since the 2016 election, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others have struggled to contain the spread of false and misleading information on their platforms. The COVID-19 infodemic has contributed to the […]
Digital Public Infrastructural Possibilities | 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, […]
Community Conversation: Combatting Misinformation | Duke Neurobiology
Why do we see so much misinformation? Why do people accept and believe incorrect data? And what we can do to combat misinformation both in our scientific and social communities? […]
Navigating the Noise: Election Coverage in the Digital Age | Center for Brooklyn History
Join BHS and the Social Science Research Council for a discussion about fundamental changes to the news industry that are reshaping where and how citizens get information about candidates for […]
Speaker Series on Misinformation with Natalie Jomini Stroud | Shorenstein Center
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism, as well as the founding and […]
Knight Public Spaces Forum 2020 | Knight Foundation
Knight Public Spaces Forum, hosted by Knight Foundation October 21-22, 2020 from 12:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET each day #publicspaces20 Knight believes that public spaces play an essential role […]
Knight Public Spaces Forum 2020 | Knight Foundation
Knight Public Spaces Forum, hosted by Knight Foundation October 21-22, 2020 from 12:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET each day #publicspaces20 Knight believes that public spaces play an essential role […]
The Future of Democracy: The COVID-19 forecast | Knight Foundation
Amid murky responses to COVID-19 from government and health officials, sociology expert Zeynep Tufekci has become a leading voice in building credible, helpful information around the pandemic — and, in […]
Electoral Anxieties: November 3rd and Its Aftermaths | Social Science Research Council
The stresses and strains on US democracy, building over decades, have reached an apex with the upcoming presidential election in ways that are unprecedented and daunting. Real fears of voter […]
Webinar: Election 2020: Setting Expectations and Debunking Myths
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American life in many ways and will certainly also impact the 2020 election. In fact, in order to socially distance and avoid unnecessary contact with […]
Disinformation, Authenticity, and Democratic Participation | Center for Brooklyn History & SSRC
With November’s elections looming, and as fraught questions about “truth,” “fact,” and “accuracy” are debated, the Center for Brooklyn History and the Social Science Research Council turn to the role authenticity plays […]
Digital Public Infrastructure: A Corporation for Public Software | 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, […]
Theodore H. White Lecture: “The Challenges Facing the Media on November 3rd and Beyond” | Shorenstein Center
On Wednesday, October 28th at 6:00pm ET, join us for the 30th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, delivered by Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, with Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs moderating. As […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Pizzagate to the Presidency: QAnon’s Infiltration of Our Democracy | Center for Brooklyn History
Once relegated to the fringes of only the most paranoid online communities, today the QAnon conspiracy theory has followers and supporters on an international scale, going so far as to […]
CBH Talks: From Pizzagate to the Presidency | Center for Brooklyn History
Once relegated to the fringes of only the most paranoid online communities, today the QAnon conspiracy theory has followers and supporters on an international scale, going so far as to […]
IDeaS Institute and Conference | Center for Informed Democracy & Social – cybersecurity (IDeaS) – Carnegie Mellon University
2020 has been a year marked by worldwide crises and changes, including a global pandemic, efforts to increase social justice, nation-shaping elections, massive wildfires and other environmental events, to name […]
Political Misinformation During the 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections | CCCM Seminar Series
CEREN BUDAK, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION The spread of political misinformation threatens the health of our democracies and weakens the legitimacy and public trust […]
Algorithms of Oppression | @UxWien Book Club
You might think that something like a search engine allows for equal access to information. Yet looking deeper into how we discover things, there’s a culture of racism and sexism […]
[VIRTUAL] Setting the Table: Tough Holiday Talks on Politics & Misinfo | PEN America
Join us for a virtual discussion exploring how to talk to friends and family about politics, misinformation, and what can be those “tough conversations” around differences of opinion that emerge […]
The 2020 Election and the Presidential Debates | The George Washington University
This year, with the stakes higher than ever, the candidates squared off in one vice presidential and two presidential debates. The events generated fireworks and controversy, but also memorable exchanges […]
“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel | Northeastern University
Event featured image, but exclude link Event content Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin Fowler (Wesleyan […]
America’s Role in the World | Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
The Hamilton Lugar School’s sixth conference on America’s Role in the World® will pay tribute to Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, one of the school’s namesakes and an exemplar of placing […]
Challenges to Digital Literacy Education | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
The internet is now the most common source of political news for almost half of Americans, and social media is now the primary source of news for those under 30. […]
The role of norms in the Internet infrastructure: the infrastructural norm of interconnection and human rights | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
The Internet is an interconnected network of roughly 70.000 networks, but there are hardly and binding rules that prescribe _how it works_. Every network can set its own rules. Distribution […]
Black Media-Makers and the Fierce Urgency of Now
A symposium on the powerful contributions of Black media-makers in this moment organized by Sarah J. Jackson, featuring Gene Demby, Maori Holmes, Stacy-Marie Ishmael, Jelani Cobb, Wesley Lowery, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Errin […]
COVID-19 misinformation: understanding and seeking truth during a pandemic | Berkeley
Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley faculty will help us understand the nature of misinformation in […]
The Digital Dilemma in the Time of COVID | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Digital technologies present a dilemma. They have become indispensable for learning skills, building knowledge, working, playing, and socially connecting. The COVID pandemic has accelerated our reliance on them but also […]
2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2020 (IEEE BigData 2020) provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data. IEEE Big Data brings together leading researchers […]
Digital Technology, Social Media, and the 2020 Presidential Election | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
The 2020 election may be over, but the debate over the role of technology in the election has only just begun. The pervasiveness of voting-related disinformation before and after the […]
Crash Course on Tech Work in Government: What *else* do you need to know? | Shorenstein Center
Joining government brings incredible opportunities to solve hard problems, fix under-resourced systems, and help people at a scale no other sector can. It’s incredibly rewarding work, but also incredibly challenging. […]
“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel | NULab at Northeastern University
Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin Fowler (Wesleyan University), Jill Lepore (Harvard University), Solomon Messing (ACRONYM), […]
Futures Forum on Preparedness | Schmidt Futures + SSRC
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested our modern public health infrastructure like never before. Why have some nations successfully contained the virus, while others have failed? How can we use these […]
Which Side of History?: How Technology is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Society has been transformed by a technology revolution and its 24/7 influence on so many aspects of our reality. The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide movement for racial justice have […]
Using the F-word: Fascist drift in America | University of Virginia Democracy Initiative
Trump supporters’ storming of the Capitol, as Trump refused to concede his loss in the 2020 presidential election, underscored the significant challenges confronting U.S. democracy. The presence of armed, violent […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CPDP 2021
onlineComputers, Privacy and Data Protection 2021 – Enforcing Rights in a Changing World
Wednesday Webinar Week 2 ‘Understanding anti-vaxx communities on social media’ | Oxford Internet Institute
The Coronavirus pandemic is on the verge of a turning point, as the rollout of vaccination programs worldwide brings hope that the disease may finally start to recede. However, public […]
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 […]
Dissecting Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Look at the Attack on the Capitol | Annenberg School for Communication
Esteemed faculty from five disciplines at Penn will come together to unpack the myriad policies, messages, and conditions that led to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, […]
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- […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Global Platform Governance Network Meeting – February 2021 | Centre for International Governance Innovation
PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY. Governments face a continuing challenge in directly countering false information both online and off. Effective communication is a key tool in the […]
CDCS Colloquium: (Side) Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy, COVID Edition | Annenberg School for Communication
Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to […]
Media Forum Online | Knight Lab
Presented by Knight Foundation, the forum is the premier gathering of foundation, media and civic leaders working to strengthen local news, communities and our democracy. Replicable ideas for more informed […]
The long fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 election | Atlantic Council
Please join us on Wednesday March 3, 2021 from 3:00-4:30 pm EST (12:00-1:30 PST) for The Long Fuse: Misinformation in the 2020 Election, the public launch of a comprehensive report tracking mis- and disinformation in the 2020 election cycle. The report was produced by the Election […]
Navigating the First Amendment & Misinformation | PEN America
Join PEN America for an engaging session on the First Amendment, misinformation, and free speech in the digital age. The January 6 insurrection has prompted many questions about free speech, […]
Misinformation as Motivated Reasoning: Experimental Evidence | Shorenstein Center
There are competing accounts for the partisan divisions occurring throughout American life. One is that they are genuine divides due to a strengthened sense of partisan identity. The other is […]
The spread of conspiracy myths online: what are the implications for human rights? | Human Rights Group: Geneva
In her message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet reminded us that ‘Words have consequences.’ Indeed she remarked that ‘conspiracy theorists increasingly link extreme […]
Changes in U.S. and EU Cyber Policy: Cooperation, Convergence, or Competition? | The German Marshall Fund of the United States
The United States and European Union have each taken big steps forward on cybersecurity policy in recent months: Europe has a new cybersecurity strategy, and a defense bill passed by […]
Lee Huebner Book Talk | The George Washington University
Moderated by Professor Janet Steele, this SMPA discussion will look at the striking history of concerns about fake news, propaganda, and the fear of the mob in the US., as described in a new book by Professor […]
Tech & Democracy: Regulating Social Media – Is This the Tipping Point? | Betalab: Fix The Internet
Join us for a conversation with Justin Hendrix, Marietje Schaake, Jason Kint and Yael Eisenstat. As part of our Betalab: Fix The Internet program, we’re excited to host a timely […]
NYC Open Data Week 2021: Educating Future Data Workers about Ethics, Bias | New America
The students and early career data professionals of today are the data curators and experts of tomorrow. It’s important that they have the right tools and knowledge so that their […]
‘The Future of Knowledge Governance: Sharing and Creating Knowledge for All’ | Oxford Internet Institute
The Oxford Internet Institute welcomes Katherine Maher, CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, hosted by Professor Philip Howard, Director of the OII. Access to knowledge can empower communities and […]
More Than Ready: Lessons from Women of Color in Public Tech Leadership | Shorenstein Center
Join us for a conversation with Cecilia Muñoz and Shorenstein Center Fellow Kathy Pham to discuss Cecilia’s recent book More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You…and Other Lessons for Women of […]
Hindsight is 2020 | Berkman Klein Center
We are still in the early days of the Internet, but there is a growing sense that it’s creating more problems than it’s solving. This wasn’t always the case. There […]
MisinfoDay | Center for an Informed Public
MisinfoDay is an annual event hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP). Its purpose is to teach high school students, teachers and librarians how to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the World: Technology, Society, and Nations | Annenberg School for Communication
This virtual, international symposium will examine narratives of COVID-19 in China and the world, considering topics like technology, society, and nations.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future: Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman Envision What Will Be | Center for Brooklyn History & Brooklyn Public Library
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
No Going Back: Global Communication & Post-Pandemic Politics | Annenberg School for Communication
On suddenly sparse streets, artists confront the grim reality of the moment. With a nod to the anti-globalization movement or the music notes seemingly playing off the guest that has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Trust and Truth in the Age of Deep Fakes | ThinkND
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty, and the community use guest speaker comments […]
Socially Mediated Visibility in Socially and Politically Authoritarian Societies | Annenberg School for Communication
Increased visibility is arguably the most significant affordance of social media and a large body of scholarly work has sought to understand how individuals deal with the effects increased visibility […]
How the Political Communications Profession Helped Divide America | Annenberg School for Communication
Using examples of political advertising, including some of his own work in nearly 30 years of creating such content as a campaign consultant, Craig Snyder will explore the cumulative effects […]
Disinformation, China, and Beijing’s Broader Global Media Influence | ThinkND
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty, and the community use guest speaker comments […]
Chris Bail + Jonathan Haidt: Breaking the Social Media Prism | The Strand Book Store
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online–and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media In an era of increasing social isolation, […]
Countering disinformation: strategies, policies, research | SOMA Disinfobservatory
As our H2020 project is close to its end-date, we would like to invite you to the event ‘Countering disinformation: strategies, policies, research’, that we are organising online, on Wednesday […]
AI and Human Rights Forum | Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
From surveillance and misinformation to facial recognition and foreign influence, advances in Artificial Intelligence have been rapid, raising questions about potential and impact on the rights of people around the […]
Epistemic Motivations, Political Identity, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election | Shorenstein Center
Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, 2007) is a Professor of Communication and Political […]
Section 230: Protections Can Legal Revisions or Novel Technologies Limit Online Misinformation and Abuse: A Workshop (Day 1) | National Academies
This is the first day of a virtual workshop to identify key issues for consideration in the reexamination of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Section 230 provides Internet-based […]
Section 230 Protections: Can Legal Revisions or Novel Technologies Limit Online Misinformation and Abuse A Workshop | National Academies
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will convene a workshop to discuss whether protections provided to Internet-based technology companies and social media platforms under […]
What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony, Media, and Scholarship | Shorenstein Center
Panel Discussion: Media scholars and experts on how to combat the rise of hate and the disinformation that spreads it. How can we learn from lessons of the past to […]
Sociology Lecture Series: Ruha Benjamin, “Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society” | The New School
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous […]
Prototyping Feminist AI | Stanford University HAI
How can feminist methodologies and approaches be applied and be transformative when developing AI and ADM systems? How can AI innovation and social systems innovation be catalysed concomitantly to create […]
“News you don’t believe”: User perspectives on f*ke news and misinformation | Shorenstein Center
Users’ perspectives on what f*ke news and misinformation is and isn’t, who drives it, and where people say they see it are important for understanding the scale and scope of […]
Cybersecurity in 2021 and Beyond: The Aftermath of the SolarWinds Attack | Georgetown University
In December 2020, it was first reported that SolarWinds, a major US information technology firm, experienced a massive cyberattack which affected up to 18,000 clients, including numerous US government agencies […]
AI, Autonomous Systems and Espionage: The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs | Georgetown University
f–field f–eyebrow f–field f–page-title cc–component-container cc–intro Artificial Intelligence and autonomous systems are poised to transform the practice of espionage. This “revolution in intelligence affairs” will lead to machines serving as […]
The Oxford Internet Institute @ 20 | The Oxford Internet Institute
This 1 hour online panel discussion to mark the 20th Anniversary of the OII brings together a unique gathering of the current and former Directors of the OII. Given their […]
Challenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research | Center for an Informed Public
The Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington is planning a virtual workshop, “Challenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research,” on May 6 that will bring together academic teams researching mis- and […]
Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics | Berkman Klein Center
Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don’t imagine some figures, particularly populations that we […]
United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking | Poynter
Facts took a bit of a beating in 2020. Let’s turn the page and celebrate the truth! United Facts of America, brought to you by PolitiFact and the Poynter Institute, […]
Reimagine the Internet | Knight First Amendment Institute
Reimagine the Internet is a virtual conference co-hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the soon-to-be-launched Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts, […]
Assembly Project Fellowship Showcase | Berkman Klein Center
This January, to celebrate the fifth year of the Assembly program, we invited five ongoing alumni project teams to return (virtually) to the Berkman Klein Center to participate in the […]
2021 Tech and Racial Equity Conference: Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future | Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Rapidly developing technologies can be an unprecedented force for good, but too often codify and amplify existing forms of racial inequality, discrimination, and bias. This free, online conference brings together […]
Professor Deen Freelon in conversation with Felix M. Simon | Oxford Internet Institute
Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism. His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data […]
Racialized Disinformation and Real World Consequences | NetGain
In the wake of heightened online radicalization over the past several years, including the rise of far-right nationalism, violence, and harms to democracy globally, it is clear that technology platforms […]
The Future of Democracy Ep. 41: The role of race in American political views | Knight Foundation
While the last year has seen broad-based calls for racial equity in the United States, protests often don’t always translate into policy outcomes. On Episode 41 of “The Future of […]
OxDEG: Exploring the Flat Earth: Beliefs, Identity, and Rationality | Oxford Internet Institute
In this seminar Dr. Krafft will report on a mixed methods study of the North American Flat Earther community, drawing on documents from two Flat Earth Society websites, three surveys, […]
How to Save Ourselves From Disinformation, a Times Event | The New York Times
You’ve seen it. That meme that seems just too good to be true. That outlandish story your family member prefaced with, “Can you believe he said that?” followed by a […]
Police Violence, Racial Injustice, and the Press: Reflections on Coverage of the Chauvin Trial | Shorenstein Center
The trial of Derek Chauvin sparked national conversations about violent policing and racial injustice. In its wake, how should policy makers, police, and journalists respond? The New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb (Spring […]
An OSoMe Tool: Tracking Online (Mis)information | R Street
The rise of social media platforms has introduced another widespread phenomenon—the spread of misleading information. Whether introduced organically or deliberately, misinformation threatens the integrity of democratic journalism. Because misinformation has […]
Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Democracy | ITIF
The media has long played an important role in a healthy democracy, providing citizens with access to accurate news and information that allows them to effectively participate in democratic processes. […]
Movement Building and Grassroots Power: Mobilizing Communities of Color to Address Mis/Disinformation | NetGain Partnership
A discussion exploring the critical role that grassroots organizing and field-building must play in 2021 and beyond to address mis/disinformation with a particular focus on mobilizing communities of color. This […]
Fake news and the assault on truth | The Guardian
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, part of The University of Manchester, holds the entire archive of the Manchester Guardian. In this series of events to mark our bicentenary, […]
Grief x Healing x Innovation | Rights x Tech
Event Listing Header Rights x Tech is a space is for leaders in technology, movement and philanthropy who understand the importance of hearing from practitioners and leaders who understand how […]
IDeaS Summer Institute | Center for Informed Democracy & Social – cybersecurity
The IDeaS Summer Institute is an intense, hands-on training camp that teaches participants about the theories, methods, and tools to identify and combat disinformation, hate speech, and extremism online. This […]
Fight the Infodemic: Digital Skills to Tackle Misinformation | Montclair Public Library
Over the last few years, misinformation has dominated our digital landscape. From email to social media to “news sites,” adults are inundated with images and information that have been manipulated, […]
Lunch & Learn: Guide to MisInformation | Bergen Volunteers
Join Bergen LEADER, Maria Deptula for a seminar on misinformation, disinformation, bias and “fake news”. Maria Deptula will help attendees uncover how we can categorize information based on its provenance, […]
Disinformation: The Challenges to Democracy | American Bar Association
As long as politics and elections have existed, there have always been false claims and exaggerations by leaders, candidates, their backers and even commentators. But the explosion of Internet access […]
Troubling Matters: Disinformation and the challenges of more ‘critical thinking’ | Fulbright Poland
The webinar offers a nuanced look into disinformation campaigns and presents a researcher’s perspective on these phenomena. Join us for a presentation followed by a Q&A session, in which Dr. […]
Mis/Disinformation on Platforms: Can Federal Policy Reduce the Harm? | NetGain Partnership
This discussion will explore the scope of US federal policy solutions available to mitigate the spread of mis/disinformation online. This will include a discussion of the viability of Section 230 […]
Making fact-checking a global practice: towards a common approach to countering disinformation and misinformation | Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
Disinformation and misinformation have been broadly recognized among major modern threats. They affect societies and the functioning of democracies all over the world and, with the profusion of communication channels […]
Annual IDeaS Conference: Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Extremism Online | Center for Informed Democracy & Social – cybersecurity
Natural disasters, elections, climate changes, insurrections, pandemics, and new technologies are rocking the world. People talk about events, both these massive ones and much smaller ones, on line. Social media […]
Truth Decay: Discrimination & Disinformation | Columbia Regional Educator Network
The expansion of access to information through the internet, and the rise of almost unlimited sources of news and opinion has given rise to an unprecedented spread of disinformation and […]
Data & Democracy Symposium: Media & Misinformation | Data4Democracy
How is social media changing democracy? How are computer algorithms employed to tailor messaging for narrow groups of voters? What are the effects of disinformation campaigns? This session examines ways […]
Confronting Health Misinformation: A Discussion with the Surgeon General on Building a Healthy Information Environment | Stanford Internet Observatory
Join the Stanford Internet Observatory for a conversation with US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, where he will discuss slowing the spread of health misinformation, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. […]
Real Talk: Pop the Disinformation Bubble | Building Bridges for America
Do you feel like you and those around you are swimming in a soup of disinformation and lies? Why is this happening? How can anyone believe this stuff? What can […]
The Future of Platform Accountability: Research, Ethics, and Racial Justice | NetGain Partnership
A discussion on how platform research to address mis/disinformation should be approached through a race-based lens, new platform research solutions and methods being pioneered and utilized by researchers of color, […]
China’s Long-Term Investments in AI Growth: Bringing the Public and Private Sectors Together | Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
The Chinese leadership has put artificial intelligence front and center in China’s industrial development. As part of this strategy, they have established: 1. Industry alliances—collaboration platforms involving local governments, academic […]
Conspiracy Theories with Jen Roberts | Oregon Humanities
The Flat Earth Society. The Illuminati. QAnon. Sometimes it seems like conspiracy theories have been multiplying exponentially, especially in this time of global pandemic. Why do we gravitate toward conspiracy […]
Nothing is Free: The Cost to Civil Society of Online Inequity, Disinformation, Hate, and Surveillance | Charlemont Forum
Jessica J. González is Co-CEO of Free Press, an organization dedicated to “saving net neutrality, achieving affordable internet access for all, uplifting the voices of people of color in the […]
Transatlantic data flows: What’s next after the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield? | The Brookings Institution
As digitization increasingly shapes the scope of U.S. international trade, regulations and policies regarding cross-border data transfers carry significant economic implications. Yet—as the recent invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield […]
International Counterathon Workshop | AI4Dignity
Team AI4Dignity is organizing a two-day collaborative coding event with fact checkers, AI developers and academic researchers to improve machine learning models to flag and label online extreme speech with […]
Call for Papers Workshop: Strengthening Democracy Challenge | Stanford University
Do you have an idea about how to improve commitment to democratic principles that you would like us to test? Join the challenge! American democracy is under threat. Many Americans […]
Knight Smart Cities Lab 2021 | Knight Foundation
As communities continue to rebuild and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, how can they harness the lessons they’ve learned in the past year to build resiliency and prepare for future […]
Webinar: How the Indigenous Investigative Collective use public records to show dire gaps in COVID-19 data access | MuckRock
In May of 2020, the Navajo Nation reported one of the highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rates in the United States. But even the dire official numbers didn’t tell the full […]
Saving the news | The Brookings Institution
The news industry in the United States is grappling with many serious and simultaneous challenges, including massive declines in the number of staff and outlets, perceptions of bias and blame […]
Beyond Misinformation: Towards a Research Agenda for Information Ecosystems, Network Dynamics and Emergent Epistemologies | C4 lab
This workshop starts from the premise that the problem of online misinformation is a symptom, not a cause. While undeniably problematic, misinformation is the current cause célèbre of a larger […]
Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) | Northeastern University
The fourth annual Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) conference will take place virtually August 9 – 13 between 11 am – 3 pm EDT. Register now at http://pacss.eventbrite.com. The […]
Wikimania | Wikimedia
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement’s annual conference celebrating the free knowledge projects made possible by the volunteer community and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation – Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary – with three days of conferences, […]
Global Disinfo Summit
The events of 2020 have demonstrated the power of disinformation and its effect on the public’s perceptions. New technologies, such as the broad adoption and availability of Artificial Intelligence, will […]
Misinformation: Stopping the spread | Alliance for Science
Humans are now able to access information through more channels than ever before, exposing us to potentially dangerous conspiracy theories and deliberate disinformation campaigns. How and why does misinformation […]
Annenberg Conversations on Gender: From Algorithm Audits to Accountability | Annenberg School for Communication
In this conversation, Duncan Watts and Danaë Metaxa will discuss Metaxa’s research using algorithm audits to measure gender and racial bias in online services such as Google Images. In addition […]
The Future of Platform Accountability: Research, Ethics, and Racial Justice | NetGain Partnership
A discussion on how platform research to address mis/disinformation should be approached through a race-based lens, new platform research solutions and methods being pioneered and utilized by researchers of color, […]
CARGC Book Talk: Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure | Annenberg School for Communication
In Visions of Beirut, Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts ranging […]
A new Bretton Woods for Data | Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford Internet Institute presents ‘A new Bretton Woods for Data’. A conversation with Elizabeth Denham CBE, UK Information Commissioner and Global Privacy Assembly chair. Here is the paradox: as data […]
Crossing Borders, Counter-cartographies: Contemplations and Collaborations Using Historic Newspapers | Library of Congress
In this talk, Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Arizona journalism professor, will discuss how research involving historical newspapers, including those in the National Digital Newspaper Program, contributes to […]
2021 Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture | Program in American Studies
Ruha Benjamin is professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: […]
Becoming a digital power: Japan’s path for domestic transformation and international influence | Brookings Institute
With the growing risk of the fragmentation of the international digital ecosystem, prioritizing digital transformation has never been more important for Japan. The country’s digital transformation will largely determine its […]
Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism | Berkman Klein Center
This event is part of a three-part symposium on Security, Privacy, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era. The first, Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism is […]
Towards a Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from COVID-19 for Now and the Future | NASEM
Event Listing Header Join the Forum on Microbial Threats for an exciting virtual conversation about what we’ve learned from 15 months of living through a global pandemic. The workshop will […]
The Pen Vs. The AK-47: The Future of Afghan Media Under the Taliban | Shorenstein Center
Media in Afghanistan flourished over the past twenty years, with independent, politically-affiliated, and internationally-supported media networks providing local, national, and international news as well as entertainment. Since the Taliban re-took […]
Center for Media at Risk Roundtable: Archiving Trump: Cruelties, Corruption and Citational Complexity | Annenberg School for Communication
Defender of democracy, activist for women’s rights, and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, Amy Siskind is best known as the author of The Weekly List and as President of The […]
Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape | Berkman Klein Center
This event is part of a three-part symposium on Security, Privacy, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era. The first, Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism is on […]
Lies and Democracy | Knight First Amendment Institute
“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one, as far as I know, has ever counted truthfulness among […]
Anti-Asian Sentiment Before Covid-19 | Digital Democracies Institute
Event Listing Header As many media accounts have recounted, Stop AAPI Hate reported that anti-Asian violence soared during the first wave of the 2020 COVID19 pandemic. From mid-March 2020 to […]
Protecting and Promoting AI Innovation: Patent Eligibility Reform as an Imperative for National Security and Innovation | Berkman Klein Center
This event is part of a three-part symposium on Security, Privacy, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era. The first, Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism is on […]
Reporting the Capitol Riots: A Conversation with Kadia Goba and Malachy Browne | Annenberg School for Communication
This session will provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges of reporting on Capitol Riots. Kadia Goba was on the ground reporting from inside the Capitol and Malachy Browne used […]
Conference for Truth and Trust Online | Truth and Trust Online
While trustworthy online spaces benefit everyone, untrustworthy content and behaviour can divide, confuse, and cause real harm. The annual Conference for Truth and Trust Online is organised as a unique […]
Tech Whistleblowing: Resources, Ramifications, & Resiliency | NetGain Partnership
Tech sector whistleblowers have played an increasingly vital role in exposing racism and toxic workplace environments, algorithmic bias, and other platform harms. But the cost of coming forward with information […]
Global Disinformation Index – Public Launch of Report & Results for Canada | Digital Democracies Institute
Event featured image, but exclude link Event content Register here for the launch event for this highly anticipated event. News websites have financial incentives to spread disinformation, in order to […]
Dr. Casey Fiesler (Colorado Boulder) on Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech | Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center
Hardly a day passes without a new technology ethics scandal–from privacy violations on social media platform to biased algorithms to controversial data collection for training facial recognition systems. In computing […]
Lies and Elections | Knight First Amendment Institute
How should the government regulate election-related speech? Trump’s “Big Lie” raises the question of whether lies about election results should be regulated by the social media platforms, as well as […]
Credible threat: Attacks against women online and the future of democracy | Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
Activists. Journalists. Elected Representatives. Public Intellectuals. When women are vocal about political and social issues, too-often they are flogged with attacks via social networking sites, comment sections, discussion boards, email, […]
AI in Healthcare: Mitigating Disparities, Biases & Misinformation | Hariri Institute
Event Listing Header Artificial Intelligence (AI) and social media are finding useful applications in health care, yet, their use may perpetuate or even accentuate inequities, disparities, and the critical role […]
Mainstream Media is the Problem | Network Science Institute
There is a lot of concern about how the news ecosystem affects public opinion, political polarization, and democracy. Most of the research and public debate focuses on overtly fake material, […]
CDCS Colloquium: Social Media and the Shape of “Man” | Annenberg School for Communication
Inspired by ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr during its heyday from 2010-2015 and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist […]
Conspiracy Theories and Political Culture, Past and Present: A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley | Annenberg School for Communication
Join Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic and James McAuley, The Atlantic contributor and author of The House of Fragile Things, a history of Dreyfus-era France, for a conversation around the long history of conspiracy theory and […]
How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media | Annenberg School for Communication
Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and algorithmic radicalization. Yet a careful review of the scientific literature indicates there is surprisingly […]
CDCS Colloquium: Beyond fairness: Datafication and Social Justice | Annenberg School for Communication
Lina Dencik is Professor in Digital Communication and Society at Cardiff’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture and Co-Founder/Director of the Data Justice Lab. Her research concerns the interplay between […]
The Facebook Files: Are teens and democratic societies at risk? | Shorenstein Center
Over the past two months, the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series has chronicled the ways that Facebook and its platforms favor elites, harm teenagers’ mental health, encourage toxicity, take […]
Lessons From the First Internet Ages | Knight Foundation
What is the future of the internet? Thirty years after the creation of the first web page, what have we learned about the impact of the internet on communication, connection, […]
Accounting for AI — a Comparison of Methods | Berkman Klein Center
A few years ago, Finale Doshi-Velez and Mason Kortz – and a squad of collaborators – unpacked explanation as one way to hold AI systems accountable. Many frameworks for AI […]
Lessons from the First Internet Ages Symposium | Knight Foundation
What is the future of the Internet? Thirty years after the creation of the first web page, what have we learned about the impact of the Internet on communication, connection, […]
The Role of Legal Strategy in Platform Research | NetGain Partnership
When platform researchers undertake new projects, it is crucial to assess legal risks. Yet the legal constraints on platform research are often ambiguous. This webinar will explore what legal resources […]
Applied Algorithmic Ethics | Marquette University
As algorithms increasingly automate decision-making processes, filter information flows, and mediate our social interactions, ethical concerns immediately follow. Questions of fairness, accountability, and transparency permeate the growing set of concerns […]
Global News & Technology Leadership in Challenging Times | Shorenstein Center
The challenges facing global news-industry leaders have seldom been as great as today. Economic disruption, technology transformation and a frontal assault on an independent free press as ‘enemies of the […]
Addressing Health Misinformation Through Community | Knight Foundation
Across the country, libraries, educators and civil society generally are leading in playing vital roles in addressing health misinformation in communities. We look forward to hearing insights from experts in […]
Can Society Control Big Tech? Truth and Trust | Shorenstein Center
This conversation is off the record. Please use this registration form if you wish to join us online. Please note that our speaker will be presenting in person at Harvard […]
“Beyond “Technological Exception”: Emerging Debates in Cuban Independent Journalism” | Annenberg School for Communication
About the Speaker Sara García Santamaría is an Associate Professor at Universitat Jaume I and Universitat Blanquerna – Ramon Llull in Spain. She holds a Doctorate in Journalism Studies from […]
Diversity and Inequality in Social Networks | Network Science Institute
Online social networks often mirror inequality in real-world networks, from historical prejudice, economic or social factors. Such disparities are often picked up and amplified by algorithms that leverage social data […]
The 2021 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press: Maria Ressa | Shorenstein Center
On Tuesday, November 16th at 6:00 pm ET in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, this year’s Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press will be delivered by Maria Ressa, 2021 […]
Rethinking the Limits: Provocative and Extreme Speech | Annenberg School for Communication
Democracies are struggling to balance freedom of expression with equality for the weak as well as accountability for harmful speech. There is growing alarm at how internet giants distort the […]
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Is an “ethical” internet possible? | Annenberg School for Communication
How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and partial […]
MIC Panel Event: Imagining a New Social Contract for Media | Annenberg School for Communication
Expanding positive freedoms that enable greater opportunities for communication—as opposed to emphasizing only negative freedoms that protect us from harm—is foundational to reforming our media system so that it serves […]
Factual Corrections and Misinformation During the 2020 U.S. Election: Evidence from Panel Experiments | Network Science Institute
We measure the immediate and medium-term effects of 21 highly-trafficked pieces of misinformation and fact-checks during the 2020 U.S. election with eight panel experiments (N = 17,681). Exposure to misinformation […]
Gender, Political Persuasion, and Social Media: A Field Experiment During the 2020 Democratic Primary | Network Science Institute
Research indicates women have less influence than men in a variety of professional settings, including politics. We conducted a field experiment on a social media platform where Democrats were randomly […]
The Interplay of Technology, Ethics, and Policy | Network Science Institute
This talk will be hybrid in-person and via Zoom. Register in advance here for this meeting using your institutional email address. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing […]
Center for Media at Risk Symposium: Image-Based Abuse | Annenberg
Image-based abuse is a public health crisis that silences marginalized groups and degrades public discourse. Ranging across the COVID-19 pandemic, political campaigns and social network reform, image-based abuse finds its […]
How to address extremism among veterans | The Brookings Institution
The mob assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 opened a new chapter in domestic terrorism. For the first time in our nation’s history, America experienced its first […]
The True Costs of Misinformation | Network Science Institute
It all 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 […]
The Post-Soviet Press: A Long Road to Freedom | Shorenstein Center
Thirty years ago this December, the Soviet Union broke up, creating 15 new countries and high expectations that many of them would embrace democracy — including guarantees of freedom of […]
Technology, inequality, and democracy | The Brookings Institution
Advances in digital technologies and artificial intelligence hold great promise to boost economic prosperity. But as these technologies transform nearly every aspect of business and work, they are reshaping growth […]
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty | Annenberg School for Communication
Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for […]
From COVID-19 to culture wars: The growing hostility of education politics | The Brookings Institution
For education policymakers, the last two years have been among the most tumultuous and challenging in U.S. history. Issue after issue has stirred controversy, including COVID-induced school closures, mask and […]
Platform Governance: Trust and Transparency | Yale Law School Information Society Project
Civil society and government stakeholders have very low trust in industry, based on repeated violations of the latter’s own promises. Concurrently, information asymmetry is an initial hurdle to both studying […]
Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s | Berkman Klein Center
This talk will draw on research from “Wearing Many Hats,” a forthcoming Data & Society report authored by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman. Dr. Coleman describes her talk as follows: […]
A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France | Center for Democracy & Technology
A newly released report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France – published by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung […]
Reducing Harm on Social Media: Research & Design Ideas | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics
When social media platforms first launched nearly two decades ago, they were seen as a force for good – a way to connect with family and friends, learn and explore […]
The Capitol Coup One Year Later: How Research can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy | GWU Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics
George Washington Univeristy Washington D.C, District of ColumbiaThe George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) and The University of North Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) invite you to join them […]
The January 6 insurrection: One year later | The Brookings Institution
Nearly one year ago, a violent mob broke into the United States Capitol in an effort to halt the certification of the electoral vote and overturn the 2020 election in […]
Book Talk: Discriminating Data: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Sarah Banet-Weiser | Annenberg
In Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, […]
Combating Health-Related Misinformation and Disinformation | University of Minnesota School of Public Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that health-related misinformation and disinformation can dangerously undermine the response to a public health crisis. Misleading information, intentional or not, has a myriad of effects, […]
FSI | Cyber – Inclusive Content Moderation Is Innovative Content Moderation
Join us on Tuesday, January 25 from 12 PM – 1 PM PT for “Inclusive Content Moderation Is Innovative Content Moderation” featuring Aerica Shimizu Banks, founder of Shiso in conversation […]
Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism Tickets, Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite
Event Listing Header Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism Join us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices book launch and speaker series! About this […]
Panel Discussion: Can Humor Help Us Fight Misinformation About Science? | Northwest Science Writers Association
What’s the best way to fight the spread of misinformation? When someone shares misleading facts about vaccines or climate change on Twitter, should we be furious — or should we […]
Hacking Online Virality | Shorenstein Center
As social media become major channels for the diffusion of news and information, it becomes critical to understand how the complex interplay between cognitive, social, and algorithmic biases triggered by […]
Eric Freedman, “Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans” | MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. Video game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided a […]
Knight Media Forum 2022 | Knight Foundation
On Feb. 22-24, join us virtually for the 15th Annual Knight Media Forum (KMF), where we will examine current trends impacting our democracy. Top thought leaders in philanthropy, journalism, education, […]
Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication
Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk, James Yékú will track the […]
CARGC Colloquium: James Yékú, University of Kansas | Annenberg School for Communication
“Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship” CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT ON ZOOM About the Talk Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian […]
Virtual Colloquium on Race, Racism, and American Media | Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute
This event will explore historic and contemporary racial discrimination in all modalities of modern media. Register Here Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier […]
“I feel it in my gut”: Epistemic motivations, political beliefs, and misperceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 Election | Annenberg School for Communication
The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump favorability, conservatism, and […]
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. ’07), University of Delaware | Annenberg School for Communication
About the Talk The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump […]
Keynote: Free Speech in the Age of Misinformation | Hart House at the University of Toronto
This year, the Committee’s Keynote event addresses pathways for the preservation of free speech while mediating the harmful effects of misinformation in our present societies. Freedom of speech has long […]
True Costs of Misinformation Workshop | Harvard Shorenstein Center
Harvard University Cambridge, MassachusettsWhat are the financial, social, and human costs of misinformation? What is the price that businesses, hospitals, civil society groups, and schools pay for false or misleading information online? How […]
Stanford Cyber Policy Center Winter Webinar series
Join us for a weekly webinar series organized by the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s […]
CDCS Colloquium: All the News That’s Fit to Click | Annenberg School for Communication
Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even […]
A Citizen Perspective on Mis- and Disinformation | Shorenstein Center
In this talk Claes de Vreese, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society at the University of Amsterdam, addresses how citizens see mis- and disinformation. The talk analyzes how citizens perceive […]
Roundtable: Ukraine and Content Moderation for News Media Sustainability | Annenberg School of Communication
From combatting violent extremism to mitigating misinformation, the news industry is caught in the middle of debates over how best to address a range of online harms. As regulators around […]
Trust in News: Fighting Disinformation | BBC Academy
Welcome to Trust In News 2022: a two day virtual conference, which returns for a second year running – packed with insightful learnings, practical presentations and workshops. We’ll explore the fresh […]
The Present and Future of Misinformation in Canada | The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University
A roundtable focused on misinformation challenges in Canada and what, if anything, we can do about it. About this event This year has been marked by an influx of misinformation, […]
Mapping Political Trends Through Twitter | IPL Webinar
Join us for a webinar to launch IPL’s latest tool: the Congressional Tweet Tracker. We’ll show you how the tool can help you analyze trends in US immigration politics, explain the […]
The Social Media Summit | MIT
The Social Media Summit @ MIT (SMS @ MIT) brings together the world’s leaders in social technology to examine one of the most critical and compelling issues of our time […]
Resisting and Reversing Western Media Imperialism?: Turkey’s Global Communication Outlets | Annenberg School for Communication
Since the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling AKP government has vastly expanded its global communication apparatus to promote the country as a rising great power and the benevolent guardian of Muslims. In […]
Misinformation vs. The Machine: Foundations of News Literacy | The Colorado Sun
The Colorado Sun and News Literacy Project bring you a three-part series about helping leaders teach others about fact from fiction. About this event Part one: Foundations of News Literacy […]
Symposium on Disinformation Studies | Swarthmore College
A central feature of the Disinformation Studies program is the annual Symposium on Disinformation Studies. The Symposium is a multiday, interdisciplinary, cross-sector conference featuring practitioners and scholars who diagnose the […]
Operationalizing responsible AI | The Brookings Institution
There is widespread agreement among ethicists and tech advocates that responsible AI principles requires fairness, transparency, privacy, human safety, and explanability. But it is not always clear how to operationalize […]
Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy | University of Chicago
With democracies across the globe under assault,The University of Chicago’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics and The Atlantic are hosting Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy, a groundbreaking three-day event exploring […]
Lies, Free Speech, and the Law | Knight First Amendment Institute
On April 8, 2022, the Knight Institute will host a symposium to explore how the law regulates or should regulate false and misleading speech. The symposium, titled “Lies, Free Speech, and the […]
The Future of Social Media: Covering, Researching, and Regulating Platforms | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics
Social media platforms generate mountains of data — about what we like, what news we read, and who we talk to. This information, for the most part, is only available […]
Memory and Belief Regression After the Correction of Misinformation | Shorenstein Center
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory […]
CSMaP Second Annual Conference | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics
We convened 50 leading scholars for a two-day virtual conference to present research on a range of topics at the intersection of social media and politics, with particular focus paid […]
Fake News & Media Literacy: A ‘Hear Me Out’ Dialogue | Free Library of Philadelphia
Join your fellow Pennsylvanians in dialogue across distance and difference! The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased our reliance on social media and the Internet for information. This development, combined with underlying […]
CARGC Colloquium: EU Futures in the Disinformation Age | Annenberg Center for Communication
The concatenation of European crises shows major transformations in the contemporary international arena and points to the reasons for a structural change in the modes and uses of European public […]
Living by Protocol | Harvard Art Museum
Harvard Art MuseumThe use of social media has become a daily routine for billions of people throughout the last decade. The problems and possibilities of this new media reality were reflected and […]
The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media | Berkman Klein Center
RSVP for this virtual event by Monday, May 16, 3:00 PM ET. Zuccotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street, and One Liberty Plaza, the multi-billion-dollar tower, represent a complex […]
The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World | Berkman Klein Center
Who is part of technology development, who funds that development, and how we put technology to use all influence the outcomes that are possible. To change those outcomes, we must—all […]
Librarians and Misinformation: Curating the Information Needs of Communities | Shorenstein Center
While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to meet our information needs, the public still overwhelmingly trusts libraries. […]
Dismantling disinformation | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
An on-demand video will be posted after the event. We’ve all seen the perils of disinformation. So, how do we combat it? This panel will explore concrete proposals for dismantling […]
Dialogues & Debates | Mozilla Festival
VirtualOn Tuesday, July 26, three experts at the intersection of online privacy and digital rights will unpack these questions, and others during a virtual Dialogues & Debates Panel. Watch the […]
New COVID States Project Report: The Dobbs Decision, Support for Abortion, and 2022 Voting
VirtualA team of researchers from the COVID States Project will discuss the findings from their latest report comparing public attitudes regarding abortion before and after the Dobbs decision was announced, […]
Summer Workshop on Combating Misinformation: Theoretical and Design Challenges to Support a Healthy Information Ecosystem | Syracuse University
VirtualAlthough misinformation has been used as a tool for propaganda throughout history, it has recently garnered immense public attention following the Brexit referendum and the US elections in 2016. Online […]
Can regulation solve the problem of misinformation? | Information Futures Lab, Brown University
HybridIs there a place for government regulation to mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? Over the past year, the EU Commission’s Digital Services Act, and the Online Safety Bill in […]
Trust & Safety Research Conference | SIO & TSF
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesHosted at Stanford University’s Frances. C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, the Trust and Safety Research Conference will convene trust and safety practitioners, people in government and civil society, and academics in fields like […]
Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM)
VirtualAfter three successful editions, the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) returns for a 4th edition, this time hosted as a fully virtual conference by Boise State University […]
2022 Midterms: NYU Center for Social Media & Politics Seminar Series
ZoomMedia Consumption, Misinformation, and Polarization Social media has transformed the media and political landscape, but the vast majority of Americans still get their news from traditional sources such as local […]
CDCS Book Talk: Asta Zelenkauskaitė, Drexel University
Annenberg School Room 108With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity,Creating Chaos Online, unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic […]
Democracy’s Data: Book Talk With Dan Bouk
The Law School’s LawTech Center focuses on pressing questions in law and technology, including policy concerns, data analysis of legal texts and the use of technology in the legal profession. […]
2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series
ZoomUsing Social Media to Drive the Political Conversation Social media is a key tool for candidates and lawmakers to share policy positions, connect with voters, and fundraise. This seminar will […]
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ZoomGeneration Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in recent American history. They dominate cultural and […]
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ZoomBeyond Facebook and Twitter: The Impact of New and Niche Platforms For years, Facebook and Twitter dominated scholarly research about the social media landscape. But in the last few years, […]
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Claes De Vreese, University of Amsterdam
HybridClaes De Vreese is a Distinguished University Professor of AI & Society at the University of Amsterdam with a special focus on AI, media, and democracy. He also holds the […]
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Lauren Feldman (Ph.D. ’08), Rutgers University
Hybrid Annenberg Room 500 and on ZoomLauren Feldman is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. Her current research emphasizes three primary areas of interest: climate change communication, partisan media […]
Web3 is Going Just Where? A fireside chat with Molly White and Jonathan Zittrain
In the wake of the FTX collapse, what impact have cryptocurrencies had on the world and what can we learn from them about the next generation of the internet we […]
GWU IDDP: Nina Hall in Conversation with Dave Karpf
George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy, and PoliticsOn Thursday, February 16 at 11am ET Dave Karpf will be in conversation with Nina Hall about her recent book Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era. In her book Nina does what no […]
EU Disinfo Lab: A CERN for the Information Environment
Alicia Wanless, Director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will present during this EU DisinfoLab webinar her study, co-written with Jacob N. […]
Call for Proposals | European Media and Information Fund
The European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) opened three calls for proposals for projects in Europe aiming to fight disinformation on 27 January 2023. EMIF will distribute up to €4,800,000 […]
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Co-Opting AI: Recruiting | NYU Institute for Public Knowledge
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GWU: Anthroencryption: Strategies for Protecting the World’s Vulnerable People
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CFP: Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference 2023
The 2023 AoIR conference addresses themes of revolutions, and their contingent promises and failures as related to digital technologies. How have digital technologies been enrolled in revolutionary projects? How have […]
Train the Trainer Short Courses | Aspen Tech Policy Hub
VirtualOur Train the Trainer short courses are paid, week-long virtual short courses to train experienced policy professionals to teach our methods for policy impact. We are hosting 2 virtual training […]
Foreign Interference & Propaganda: What We Know and What to Expect | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics
VirtualSince Russia’s attempt to interfere with the 2016 election, the political and scholarly community has focused considerable attention on foreign influence in American politics. Researchers and media have investigated the […]
UT Austin Good Systems Speaker Series | Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
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Digital Policy Rounds: Mis/disinformation and the Question of Authenticity | Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy
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Call for Proposals | TrustCon 2023
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The Impact We Generate Discussion Series | AI, Media & Democracy
AI, Media & Democracy LabMarch 21, April 18 and May 30 2023 at 16:00 In recent months, increased media attention has been given to AI-driven applications like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, GPT-3, ChatGPT and Bard. […]
“Weaponizing Misogyny”: Gender-Based Harassment’s Impact on Journalists and Free Expression | Berkman Klein Center
Whether they are reporting on gun violence, covering protests in the post-Dobbs era, or sharing information about COVID with the public, journalists are on the frontlines, bringing important issues to […]
Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement
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In his project “Real Time Monitoring of 2022 US Election-Related Misinformation and its Psycho-Social Correlates on Twitter” Jeffrey Lees seeks to answer the question what is the role of superusers? […]
Rest of World Labor x Tech Reporting Fellowship | Rest of World
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Steering AI for the Public Good: A Dialogue for the Future | Institute for Advanced Study
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The Joint Computation + Journalism European Data & Computational Journalism Conference
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Workshop on Responsible and Open Foundation Models | Open foundation models
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The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after Twitter | Annenberg Public Policy Center
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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
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Online Content Moderation from the Trenches: Veterans Who Have Fought the Fight | R Street Institute
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Emerging directions in news use research: Project launch event and open conference | University of Surrey
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Good Systems Symposium HUB | UT Austin
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Disinfo Day
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2nd Annual Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium | Good Systems
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CrowdTangle Funeral | The Knight-Georgetown Institute
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Report launch: Offensive speech and hate speech targeted at Congressional Candidates in the 2024 Election | Center for Democracy & Technology
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The Campaign to Curb Misinformation Research | Boston University
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Session 13: Robyn Caplan: Studying Networked Platform Governance: A Multi-Perspective Approach | PGMT
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Federal Efforts to Expand Access to State Administrative Data
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Virtual Event | Deep Dive: Data Governance
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HybridThis panel brings together Black feminist scholars, writers, and public intellectuals to examine how and why debates about gender, sexuality, and nationality consistently emerge as top topics on social media […]
The Double Black Box: National Security, AI, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability, with Ashley Deeks, November 12 The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability
HybridRapid advances in artificial intelligence are increasingly vital to national security operations. The United States, China, and other states seek to harness these tools to bolster their own military and […]
Beyond the Algorithm: From Research to Action for Democratic Renewal
HybridBeyond the Algorithm: From Research to Action for Democratic Renewal is a hybrid event jointly organised by the Horizon Europe KT4D, ORBIS, ITHACA and AI4GOV projects. The event puts under […]
PAIRS: Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium 2026
The 2nd edition of the International Participatory AI Research and Practice Symposium (PAIRS) will take place concurrent with the India AI Impact Summit. Like the first edition, which was an […]
AI and the Concentration of Power
HybridZoë Hitzig, known for her research and writing on the political economy of AI, including a widely discussed op-ed reflecting on her decision to leave OpenAI, will examine how AI […]
Digital Identity Symposium: Towards User-Owned Identity
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University 1557 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLogging into social media platforms and other apps increasingly requires revealing sensitive information, like your birthday and full legal name. That data is collected, processed and shared in ways that […]
Global Forum: FIMI & Hybrid Threats
HybridAbout the Forum Over the past two years, FIMI has shifted from isolated disinformation campaigns to coordinated, AI-enabled operations that combine narrative manipulation, cyber disruption, economic pressure, and reputational attacks […]
The Civic Toolkit: Digital Literacy in the Age of AI
The Civic Toolkit 2026 Wasserturm, EUREF-Campus 18, Berlin, GermanyDemocracies around the world are grappling with declining trust in public institutions, increasing polarisation and the rapid spread of disinformation, often amplified by AI. How can we best build digital literacy […]
AI Can Make Conflict Worse or Better
HybridJoin the Tech Impact and Policy Center on April 21st from 12PM–1PM Pacific for a seminarwith Jonathan Stray. About the Seminar: There has been much discussion of how AI can help […]
Doing Digital Platform Research with Australian Internet Observatory
VirtualA free Australian Internet Observatory Webinar exploring the tool and process for using data donations as a method for collecting digital platform data. Presented by Prof Dan Angus (QUT), Prof […]
Influencer Diplomacy Symposium
VirtualThe Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (IERLab) is hosting our next symposium on Influencer Diplomacy, to be held via Zoom on 24 April 2026, 10:00 – 16:00 (AWST). This one-day online event focuses […]
Call for Contributions: Search Engines and Society Annual Conference (SEASON 2026)
On behalf of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON), we invite submissions for the 2026 edition of the Search Engines and Society Annual Conference (SEASON 2026), to be held […]
“AI, Algorithmic Media, and Digital Governance: Power, Control, and Technological Transformation” | Call for Papers for Special Issue
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue titled “AI, Algorithmic Media, and Digital Governance: Power, Control, and Technological Transformation,” to be published in the […]
Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI | Call for Proposals
Social media platforms are increasingly shaped by the integration of generative AI alongside long-standing analytical and predictive models. Today’s algorithmic systems are moving from the background infrastructure to the forefront […]
Look What You Made Me Do: How FIMI Actors Weaponize Pop Culture
VirtualWhat if viral cultural moments were not just entertainment, but strategic entry points for influence? High-visibility events, from major entertainment events to viral online controversies, are increasingly used within the […]
PAIRSx Africa 2026: Shaping African AI Through Participatory Governance and Design
Raddison Blu Hotel, Lusaka 19029 Great East Rd, Lusaka, ZambiaIn 2025, the first PAIRSx Africa webinar was held alongside the Global AI Summit on Africa in Rwanda. The session brought together policy experts, practitioners, developers, and academics to advance […]
Rebuilding Belonging in a Digital Age: Teens, Tech, & Third Places
HybridJoin the Tech Impact and Policy Center on May 12th from 12PM–1PM Pacific for a seminarwith Jennifer Heifferon & Alanna Powers-O’Brien. About the Seminar: As adolescence becomes increasingly digital, public discourse tends to […]
Call for Papers: Measuring Media Use and Effects | Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
The increasing availability of digital behavioral data and computational tools has transformed how communication researchers study media use, exposure, and effects. These developments offer unprecedented analytical depth – but also […]
Conspiracy Theories in the Wake of Disaster | Call for Papers for Edited Volume
In late September, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the continental United States, churning its way up the Atlantic seaboard. The storm devastated North Carolina with massive rainfall and flooding […]
Inside the 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI
HybridThe AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence. What is changing in the field of AI? Join Stanford HAI’s AI […]
Call for Abstracts: The Politics of GenAI Governance
João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester, UK), Klara Matusewicz (University of Manchester, UK), and Robert Gorwa (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) are organising a two-day workshop, The Politics of […]
What Digital Futures Do We (Not) Want?
VirtualDemocracies today face profound challenges, including the proliferation of fake news and online disinformation, the rise of digital authoritarianism and digital fascism, the big tech monopolies of online platforms […]
AI companion bots as a public health issue: A new framework for regulation
VirtualAI companion bots are reshaping how people connect, confide, and cope, with children and adolescents among their most active users. Even as evidence of their potential social and developmental harms […]
IPIE | Confronting AI-Generated Misinformation – What the Science Says
VirtualGenerative AI is changing how misinformation is produced, circulated, and perceived. What does the evidence tell us specifically about this cycle, opportunities to mitigate it, and what we don’t know yet? […]
Global Disinformation Summit 2026
VirtualThe GLOBAL SUMMIT ON DISINFORMATION is a space for global interaction where journalists, researchers, academics, fact-checkers, media and government representatives, civil society organizations, professors, and students meet annually to discuss, […]
David vs Goliath in the DSA era: Lessons from Bits of Freedom’s victory
VirtualArticle 38 of the EU Digital Services Act could be described as a masterpiece of legal drafting – 57 words to say very large online platforms must provide a version […]
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
VirtualIn the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government and American corporations generated an unprecedented amount of paper records. The data complex emerged as a national network of repositories built to […]
Enforce on the DSA enforcers: how can Member States legally push the Commission to act?
VirtualThe DSA establishes a hybrid enforcement framework. The European Commission holds exclusive competence to supervise and enforce DSA obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search […]
Fake News Festival 2026
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Große Scharrnstraße 59, Frankfurt, GermanyHow does our world change when artificial intelligence produces content faster than we can verify it? The Fake News Festival brings together science, practice, and the public to examine disinformation, artificial intelligence, and the future of our information society from diverse perspectives. In keynotes, lectures, and […]
AI and the future of teaching and learning | Brookings
VirtualAs generative AI rapidly reshapes classrooms around the globe, educators and decisionmakers are grappling with a major concern: How can generative AI be used to help, not harm, teaching and […]
The Luddite Conference on Participatory Futures | The New School
The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWith companies like OpenAI taking Pentagon contracts and Elon Musk using government resources to scrape Americans’ data, it’s hard to feel that there are any tangible ways to resist the […]
China’s AI strategy and its impact on the global information space | EU Disinfo Lab
VirtualCan European software built on cheap Chinese AI models be trusted? As open-source model families like Alibaba’s Qwen surge in global popularity, an increasing number of international developers are quietly […]
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2026
ITU Headquarters Pl. des Nations 1211, Geneva, SwitzerlandThe WSIS Forum serves as the central multistakeholder convening platform mandated to advance the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and support global digital cooperation. Anchored in the renewed UNGA […]
A Materialist Critique of Technofascism | ECPR
VirtualIn this talk, Dr. Möllers parses the current debate on technofascism(s) to develop a materialist understanding of technofascist formations from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and anti-colonial perspectives. She demonstrates […]
AI Real Talk: Spotting AI Slop with Pangram’s CEO | Hacks/Hackers
VirtualThe company Pangram has built the leading product for detecting if purportedly human-written words were actually generated by machines. Their work was among the first to publicly prove the novel […]
Behind the screen: AI slop, young children, and the profit problem | Brookings
VirtualAI slop—low-quality, mass-produced content created by generative AI—is increasingly permeating the digital environments that young children encounter during what is the most critical period for their development and lifelong well-being. […]
12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont, United StatesThe International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be hosted by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont from July 28-31, 2026. IC2S2 has emerged as the […]
JournalismAI Strategy Lab LATAM | Call for Applications
VirtualThe JournalismAI Strategy Lab is expanding, and this time we’re heading to Latin America. We’ve had a great response from the LATAM community over the years, and we’re excited to […]
5th Annual Civics of Technology Online Conference: Against Tech Hype
VirtualHype, hope, disappointment. Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding it. Hype is […]
The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents | Data & Society
VirtualAI agents have begun to move from speculative promise into everyday deployment. They translate high-level goals into plans and carry them out across connected digital environments. Agent builders often promise […]
2026 IDeaS Conference | Call for Submissions
Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Information Democracy & Social–cybersecurity (IDeaS) is hosting a conference focused on policy challenges emerging from the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and digital platforms. Advances […]
Hacks/Hackers AI x Visual Journalism Forum
AI is reshaping visual storytelling. Tools that generate, edit and synthesize images, video and data visualizations are moving faster than the field can track. There are no industry standards, few […]
Job Call: Assistant Professor Position in Media Industry Studies
University of Pennsylvania: Annenberg School for Communication“The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in Media Industry Studies to begin the fall semester of 2027. We are […]
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) | Funded Research Sabbatical
Time, focus and community for your research on the societal impact of digital transformation A fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) provides the freedom to dedicate yourself […]
Job Call: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
“Data & Society seeks a post-doctoral research fellow for AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge, a two-year project housed under our AI & Democracy initiative and led by Director […]
Call for Papers – Creator and Influencer Studies
Since 2020, health professionals as creators and influencers has exploded. While they existed long before this date, the advent of the COVID-19 Pandemic accelerated the growth and importance of health […]