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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, the unique challenges researchers of color face, and how philanthropy can better support and empower Black and Brown tech platform researchers to carry out their […]

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 from maps, urban plans, and aerial photographs to live television and drone-camera footage, El-Hibri traces the histories of how the technologies and media infrastructure that […]

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 protection laws increasingly align towards a high standard, data protectionism is on the rise too. Ever more countries are establishing stricter rules on the cross-border […]

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 better understanding of the Mexico-United States borderlands and beyond. Her talk will consider how interdisciplinary and cross border collaborations with libraries, librarians, and media scholars […]

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: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code among many other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine and technology with a focus […]

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 ability to adjust to profound demographic changes brought on by an ageing and contracting population, find new sources of competitiveness and drivers for productivity at […]

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 on September 17, 2021, the second, Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape is on September […]

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 broadly examine responses to COVID-19 in the U.S. and abroad, and will host retrospective and prospective discussions on the broad impacts of the pandemic on […]

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 control of the country in August, 2021, thousands of journalists have fled the country, and many news and media organizations have shut their doors. Spring […]

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 New Agenda, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of women. On Twitter she is @Amy_Siskind. Jay Rosen has been teaching journalism at New York University […]