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SUMMARY:Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future | Center for Brooklyn History
DESCRIPTION: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 future of humanity\, then Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman have ideas you want to hear. Roose\, technology columnist for the New York Times\, has a vision for surviving our ever-accelerating technology onslaught with our jobs—and souls—intact\, as articulated in his latest book “Futureproof.” Zuckerman\, professor of public policy\, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, presents a roadmap for transformative\, positive social change and civic engagement in his book “Mistrust.” These two big thinkers on the future compare notes\, exchange theories\, and question each other about what’s to come.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/survival-guides-for-an-uncertain-future-center-for-brooklyn-history/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T183000
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SUMMARY:Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future: Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman Envision What Will Be | Center for Brooklyn History & Brooklyn Public Library
DESCRIPTION: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 future of humanity\, then Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman have ideas you want to hear. Roose\, technology columnist for the New York Times\, has a vision for surviving our ever-accelerating technology onslaught with our jobs—and souls—intact\, as articulated in his latest book “Futureproof.” Zuckerman\, professor of public policy\, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, presents a roadmap for transformative\, positive social change and civic engagement in his book “Mistrust.” These two big thinkers on the future compare notes\, exchange theories\, and question each other about what’s to come. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/survival-guides-for-an-uncertain-future-kevin-roose-and-ethan-zuckerman-envision-what-will-be-center-for-brooklyn-history-brooklyn-public-library/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T113000
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SUMMARY:A Study of Confucius Institute Teachers Around the World | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation\, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. \nJennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication\, and an Assistant Professor\, by courtesy\, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. Her research resides at the intersection of political communication and authoritarian politics\, showing how authoritarian governments work to shape public attitudes and behaviors\, how the public responds\, and when and why each is successful. Pan graduated from Princeton University\, summa cum laude\, with an A.B. in Public and International Affairs\, and she received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/a-study-of-confucius-institute-teachers-around-the-world-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T123000
DTSTAMP:20260928T131252
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SUMMARY:Achieving Digital Equity in India\, Pakistan\, and Beyond | New America
DESCRIPTION: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 it\, the ramifications of Covid-19 would have been far more severe. As the internet becomes a public utility that shapes our social\, political\, and economic lives\, we must take a hard look on what it means to be disconnected\, and raise ambitions to meet people’s need for affordable meaningful connectivity. More than half of the world’s population remains disconnected to the world\, and therefore\, unable to digitally access jobs\, trainings\, and vital marketplace connections. Connecting the rest of the world could potentially add $6.7 trillion to the digital economy. \nJoin us for this Davos Lab dialogue hosted in partnership with Future Tense\, the Global Shapers Bangalore Hub\, and the Open Technology Institute to discuss the ramifications of the digital divide in India\, Pakistan\, the United States\, and beyond. The Davos Lab is the world’s first grassroot and youth-driven COVID-19 recovery plan\, which will be showcased at the World Economic Forum Special Annual Meeting 2021. \n[…]\n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/achieving-digital-equity-in-india-pakistan-and-beyond-new-america/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T153000
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford - Atlas of AI | Digital Democracies Institute
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. 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 of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris\, is a senior principal researcher at MSR\, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. Her new book\, The Atlas of AI: Power\, Politics\, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (available here for pre-order) explores the hidden costs of artificial intelligence\, from natural resources and energy to labor and data\, and reveals how AI systems have saturated political life and depleted the planet. \nShe will be discussing the themes of her book with Wendy Chun. Wendy is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, and leads the Digital Democracies Institute where researchers investigate themes of mis- and disinformation\, authenticity\, and counterspeech\, amongst many others. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/kate-crawford-atlas-of-ai-digital-democracies-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T090000
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SUMMARY:No Going Back: Global Communication & Post-Pandemic Politics | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION: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 overstayed its welcome\, both messages diagnose the ailment and gesture toward a hope for and belief in change. In a moment shaped by closures — of borders\, stores\, schools\, offices\, jobs\, and\, for many\, a dream of “going back to normal” — what openings are made possible? \nThe second biennial early career conference by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania asks: What are post-pandemic politics? We understand post-pandemic\, not as a myopic focus on COVID-19\, but rather as an optic illuminating both persistent and emergent conditions of inequity and precarity. We also use post-pandemic as an opportunity to imagine new forms of politics\, community\, solidarity\, and action.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/no-going-back-global-communication-post-pandemic-politics-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T120000
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SUMMARY:The Challenges Ahead in Covering Environmental and Climate Justice | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION: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? \nThree leading journalists will discuss the challenges ahead in covering environmental and climate justice in the United States and around the globe: Somini Sengupta of The New York Times; Justin Worland of Time Magazine;  and Yessenia Funes of Atmos Magazine. Cristine Russell\, ENRP Senior Fellow\, will moderate. \n[…] \n\n\n  \n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links  .tribe-events-cal-links  \n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-challenges-ahead-in-covering-environmental-and-climate-justice-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T140000
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SUMMARY:Edgelands Institute Launch Event | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION: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 Center. \nThe Institute stems from the perception that the rapid deployment of surveillance technologies in cities to provide security services is reshaping how we interact with government\, corporations\, and each other without receiving the attention this transformation deserves. There is an urgent need for an inclusive conversation around how this is affecting our societies. The goal of the institute is to bring together all the concerned parties to find and create common ground. Its mission is to imagine the terms of new social contracts that work for cities and people in the age of pandemics and digital surveillance. \nDuring this launch event\, the institute will introduce its mission\, methodology\, and\, true to its mission\, bring together arts and research for an engaging session. To guide the conversation\, the institute would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions for us on your views about the urban social contract in your city. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/edgelands-institute-launch-event-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T190000
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SUMMARY:Disinformation's Consequences | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Event Meta \n end author  \n\n Event content  \n\nThe consequences of disinformation came into sharp relief in the coordinated and violent attack on the United States Capitol on January 6th.  Social media platforms intensify the speed of misleading communication that promoted lies\, misrepresentations\, and deceptive sourcing to energize groups.  This was a concerted and organized campaign to promote and weaponize misinformation to a large audience. As we reckon with the past several years\, we are left with more questions on how to face the looming and ongoing challenges disinformation poses to democracy. \nJoin us for a conversation with: \n\nDr. Joan Donovan\, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nRoger McNamee\, Author of the New York Times bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe\nKara Swisher\, Spring 2021 Fellow\, The University of Chicago Institute of Politics; Host of the Sway and Pivot podcasts; Contributing Writer to The New York Times Opinion Section\nNancy Gibbs (Moderator)\, Director of the Shorenstein Center; Visiting Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press\, Politics and Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\n\n[…]\n .tribe-events-single-event-description  .tribe-events-cal-links  .tribe-events-cal-links  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/disinformations-consequences-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T104000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T121000
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SUMMARY:Trust and Truth in the Age of Deep Fakes | ThinkND
DESCRIPTION: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 as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/trust-and-truth-in-the-age-of-deep-fakes-thinknd/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T130000
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SUMMARY:Socially Mediated Visibility in Socially and Politically Authoritarian Societies | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION: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 in terms of concern for privacy as well as the ability to broadcast to wide audiences. Much of this work explores how pre-social media norms are applied\, for better or worse\, to socially mediated spaces. The presented projects also seek to understand how pre-existing norms are enacted in social media\, especially with regard to visibility\, but in a different context. This project is set in a society — Azerbaijan — in which a norm of interpersonal as well as governmental surveillance has not only existed for a long time\, but “permeates life” and is a part of “the dominant organizing value in society.“ Moreover\, surveillance is part of enforcing societal behavioral codes\, for which non-compliance results in severe punishment. The increased visibility afforded by social media has amplified and economized both interpersonal and government surveillance\, making the risk associated with behavioral code non-compliance and likelihood of punishment much greater. Given the norm of surveillance and these higher stakes\, Azerbaijanis make choices about online behavior that are of theoretical importance to our broader understanding of online behavior. Pearce will present two studies on visibility in an authoritarian environment: 1) through an Impression Management framework\, how honor is performed online\, and 2) how social media complicates the concealment/disclosure of stigmatized political identities.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/socially-mediated-visibility-in-socially-and-politically-authoritarian-societies-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T193000
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SUMMARY:How the Political Communications Profession Helped Divide America | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION: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 on the American political system\, and on American society more broadly\, of four standard techniques in modern American political communications: \n\nThe use of half-truths in advocacy\nRelentless negativity\nThe politics of personal destruction\nWhataboutism\n\nWith the opportunity for questions and interaction beyond the formal presentation\, Snyder wants to engage the audience in a dialogue about improving the way Americans communicate about politics. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/how-the-political-communications-profession-helped-divide-america-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T104000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T121000
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SUMMARY:Disinformation\, China\, and Beijing’s Broader Global Media Influence | ThinkND
DESCRIPTION: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 as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/disinformation-china-and-beijings-broader-global-media-influence-thinknd/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T200000
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SUMMARY:Chris Bail + Jonathan Haidt: Breaking the Social Media Prism | The Strand Book Store
DESCRIPTION:A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online–and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media \nIn an era of increasing social isolation\, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but\, as Chris Bail explains\, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities\, empowers status-seeking extremists\, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers\, foreign misinformation campaigns\, and radicalizing algorithms\, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/chris-bail-jonathan-haidt-breaking-the-social-media-prism-the-strand-book-store/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T143000
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SUMMARY:Countering disinformation: strategies\, policies\, research | SOMA Disinfobservatory
DESCRIPTION: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 April 21st 2021\, at 14.00-18.30 CET\, in order to discuss the latest developments in the field of disinformation and the present activities that are geared against it. \n[…]\n\n .entry-content  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/join-somas-online-event-countering-disinformation-strategies-policies-research-on-april-21st-soma-disinfobservatory/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T140000
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SUMMARY:AI and Human Rights Forum | Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
DESCRIPTION: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 globe. Join the AI and Human Rights Forum to hear from some of the world’s top experts on disinformation\, online hate and freedom of speech\, authoritarian tech\, AI ethics and governance\, and global cooperation. \nThe event will take place over four days and will feature keynote addresses and panel discussions from leading global experts working at the intersection of AI and human rights. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-and-ai-friends-or-foes-artificial-intelligence-and-human-rights-forum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T130000
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CREATED:20210422T152138Z
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SUMMARY:Epistemic Motivations\, Political Identity\, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation\, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. \nDannagal G. Young (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication\, 2007) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware where she studies the content\, audience\, and effects of non-traditional political information. She has authored over forty academic articles and book chapters exploring themes related to political entertainment\, media psychology\, public opinion\, and misinformation. She is also a dedicated public scholar\, with appearances on CNN\, MSNBC\, and PBS and having written for The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and Vox. Her 2019 book “Irony and Outrage“ examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives (Oxford University Press\, 2020). Dr. Young’s current book project (with JHU Press) explores how identity fuels misinformation and how our socially sorted political media ecosystem reinforces these patterns. Young was awarded the University of Delaware’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014 and is a TED Speaker. \n[…]\nSource: Epistemic Motivations\, Political Identity\, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election | Shorenstein Center
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/epistemic-motivations-political-identity-and-misperceptions-about-covid-and-the-2020-election-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T180000
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SUMMARY:Section 230: Protections Can Legal Revisions or Novel Technologies Limit Online Misinformation and Abuse: A Workshop (Day 1) | National Academies
DESCRIPTION: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 technology companies and social media platforms with immunity from civil liability for hosting user-generated content and in the removal or moderation of user-generated content. While Section 230 has played a significant role in the development of the Internet as a platform for the global exchange of information and ideas\, disinformation and abuse on social media has become an issue of increasing concern. The workshop will explore how law\, policy\, and technology might better enable management of third party content while preserving free speech and democratic norms. \n[…]\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/section-230-protections-can-legal-revisions-or-novel-technologies-limit-online-misinformation-and-abuse-a-workshop-day-1-national-academies/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T170000
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CREATED:20210329T200724Z
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SUMMARY:Cybernationalism and the World: Populism\, Identity\, and Symbolic Politics in the Digital Age | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nDetails forthcoming.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cybernationalism-and-the-world-populism-identity-and-symbolic-politics-in-the-digital-age-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T180000
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SUMMARY:Section 230 Protections: Can Legal Revisions or Novel Technologies Limit Online Misinformation and Abuse A Workshop | National Academies
DESCRIPTION: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 Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 should be reconsidered in light of increasing online misinformation and abuse. The workshop will examine the legal and economic rationale for Section 230; review court decisions relevant to Section 230; discuss proposals for revisions to Section 230\, and explore technological approaches that might allow for a more responsible management of third party Internet content. A proceedings in brief will be issued following the workshop. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/section-230-protections-can-legal-revisions-or-novel-technologies-limit-online-misinformation-and-abuse-a-workshop-national-academies/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T200000
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CREATED:20210426T001636Z
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SUMMARY:What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony\, Media\, and Scholarship | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion: Media scholars and experts on how to combat the rise of hate and the disinformation that spreads it. \nHow can we learn from lessons of the past to stop hate movements today? What role does the media play in stopping the spread of hateful ideologies? How are disinformation and media manipulation used as tools by extremist groups and individuals? How do current civil rights movements\, like Black Lives Matter and Stop AAPI Hate\, combat hateful ideologies today? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/what-is-stronger-than-hate-lessons-from-testimony-media-and-scholarship-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T170000
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SUMMARY:Sociology Lecture Series: Ruha Benjamin\, "Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society" | The New School
DESCRIPTION: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 era. In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity — what she terms the “New Jim Code.” \nThis presentation takes us into the world of biased bots\, altruistic algorithms\, and their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. She will also consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. In doing so\, Ruha challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold\, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/sociology-lecture-series-ruha-benjamin-race-to-the-future-reimagining-the-default-settings-of-technology-society-the-new-school/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Prototyping Feminist AI | Stanford University HAI
DESCRIPTION: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 a positive movement for social change larger than the sum of the data science or social science parts? How can we produce actionable research that will lead to the profound changes needed – from scratch – in the processes to produce AI? Can we prototype better digital futures? Which disciplines should we include? Where are the gaps? And how can we make a strong case to prototype different\, better digital futures\, before embarking on big AI projects in the public sector? The seminar will collect ideas and experiences from different disciplines to draft a blueprint for a better modelled digital future. \n[…]\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/hai-weekly-seminar-with-renata-avila-stanford-university/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:“News you don’t believe”: User perspectives on f*ke news and misinformation | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION: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 public concern\, and how this corresponds with research insights and aligns with proposed responses to these problems\, as well as for the credibility and even effect of responses. In this presentation\, Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen\, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism\, will use survey data and focus group material from Reuters Institute research to present an overview of user perspectives on “fake news” and misinformation more broadly\, and identify some commonalities and differences between how\, respectively\, the public\, researchers\, and policymakers talk about these problems. \n[…] \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/news-you-dont-believe-user-perspectives-on-fke-news-and-misinformation-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Cybersecurity in 2021 and Beyond: The Aftermath of the SolarWinds Attack | Georgetown University
DESCRIPTION: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 and Fortune 500 companies whose networks and data were exposed and vulnerable for months. \nDescribed by Microsoft’s president Brad Smith\, one of the affected clients\, as “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen\,” the US government investigation attributed the cyberattack to Russian intelligence\, with Russia then denying responsibility. As details continue to emerge\, the implications will affect a range of sensitive activities—from software supply chain management to strategies to protect critical infrastructure\, to new approaches in national and global cybersecurity. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cybersecurity-in-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-solarwinds-attack-georgetown-university/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:AI\, Autonomous Systems and Espionage: The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs | Georgetown University
DESCRIPTION:f–field f–eyebrow  \n f–field f–page-title  \n cc–component-container cc–intro  \n\nArtificial Intelligence and autonomous systems are poised to transform the practice of espionage. This “revolution in intelligence affairs” will lead to machines serving as more than just tools for collection and analysis\, but as intelligence consumers\, decision-makers\, and targets of intelligence operations. Former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Chief Technology Officer Anthony Vinci will join CSET Distinguished Fellow and Former NGA Director Robert Cardillo for an illuminating discussion on the coming intelligence revolution and how the U.S. government should adapt for this new reality. \n[…]\n\n f–field f–richtext
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-autonomous-systems-and-espionage-the-coming-revolution-in-intelligence-affairs-georgetown-university/
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SUMMARY:The Oxford Internet Institute @ 20 | The Oxford Internet Institute
DESCRIPTION: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 experience in leading the helm of the Institute they will reflect on what the OII has achieved and what pressing technology challenges this community can address right now and in the future. They will discuss the question how the internet can be used for the good and benefit for all. \nOur panellists are:\nProfessor Victoria Nash (current Director)\nProfessor Philip Howard\nProfessor Helen Margetts\nDr Andrew Graham\nProfessor Bill Dutton \n[…]\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-oxford-internet-institute-20-the-oxford-internet-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Challenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research | Center for an Informed Public
DESCRIPTION: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 disinformation to reflect on research best practices\, data ethics and hurdles\, and the normative and epistemological foundations of our collective work. \nThe CIP invites academic and academic-adjacent researchers who have engaged in rapid-impact research projects and media engagement around misinformation events and conspiracy theories — particularly related to COVID-19\, recent elections and the broader impacts of mis- and disinformation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/challenges-and-considerations-for-misinformation-research-center-for-an-informed-public/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210507T120000
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SUMMARY:Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION: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 serve in the global south\, to merely be passive beneficiaries and outside of the borders of expertise we seek? Instead of looking at digital governance in terms of control\, weaving in feminist and decolonial approaches might help liberate our digital futures so that it is a space of safety and of humanity\, and through this design new forms of digital humanism. \nJoin Anasuya Sengupta\, Sabelo Mhlambi\, Andrew Zolli\, and Aarathi Krishnan as they discuss if humanitarian actors can play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/foresight-and-decolonial-humanitarian-tech-ethics-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking | Poynter
DESCRIPTION: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\, is a celebration of fact-checking featuring some of the most important voices in media\, health care\, politics and technology. \nOver 10 hours of virtual programming\, you’ll hear from expert fact-checkers from PolitiFact\, the Washington Post and FactCheck.org\, doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic and political and technology leaders trying to counter the spate of misinformation that lives online. \nAnd we’ll talk with mental health counselors and experts about how we all can better share the truth with our friends and constituents in times of crisis. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/united-facts-of-america-a-festival-of-fact-checking-poynter/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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