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 […]
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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 […]