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SUMMARY:IDeaS Institute and Conference | Center for Informed Democracy & Social - cybersecurity (IDeaS) - Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION: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 just a few. These crises and changes—in particular\, their social dimensions—have been directly impacted and shaped by disinformation\, influence campaigns\, and other efforts to undermine people’s understanding and autonomy. \nWe will hold a special virtual conference on Social-cybersecurity in Times of Crisis and Change this November 2020. This conference aims to advance the science of social-cybersecurity through research and applications that address two questions. How does the unprecedented scale of false information and its spread impact human activity in times of crisis and social change? And\, what are the mechanisms that enable or contain the spread of false information during these times? \nThe institute and conference charge no registration fee but registration is required.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ideas-institute-and-conference-center-for-informed-democracy-social-cybersecurity-ideas-carnegie-mellon-university/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T190000
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SUMMARY:CBH Talks: From Pizzagate to the Presidency | Center for Brooklyn History
DESCRIPTION: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 be endorsed by a number of political candidates and one elected member of Congress. The fanatical far-right theory combines allegations of child sex-trafficking by Satan-worshipping pedophiles with a volatile cocktail of belief in shadow governments\, anti-Semitic tropes\, racism\, and outlandish assertions (JFK Jr. lives!). Why did QAnon take such deep hold in its short three-year existence? How is it undermining legitimate efforts to combat the sexual abuse of children? And what has its impact been on our democracy? Join Travis View\, host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous and an authority on conspiracy theories\, and Kevin Roose\, technology columnist for the New York Times who has written extensively on disinformation and online radicalization\, for a conversation exploring what the insidious prevalence of QAnon means for the future of the nation.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cbh-talks-from-pizzagate-to-the-presidency-center-for-brooklyn-history/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T190000
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SUMMARY:From Pizzagate to the Presidency: QAnon's Infiltration of Our Democracy | Center for Brooklyn History
DESCRIPTION: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 be endorsed by a number of political candidates and one elected member of Congress. The fanatical far-right theory combines allegations of child sex-trafficking by Satan-worshipping pedophiles with a volatile cocktail of belief in shadow governments\, antisemetic tropes\, racism\, and outlandish assertions (JFK Jr. lives!). Why did QAnon take such deep hold in its short three-year existence? How is it undermining legitimate efforts to combat the sexual abuse of children? And what has its impact been on our democracy? Join Travis View\, host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous and an authority on conspiracy theories\, and Kevin Roose\, technology columnist for the New York Times who has written extensively on disinformation and online radicalization\, for a conversation exploring what the insidious prevalence of QAnon means for the future of the nation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/from-pizzagate-to-the-presidency-qanons-infiltration-of-our-democracy-center-for-brooklyn-history/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T140000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
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SUMMARY:RxT: Algorithms and Accountability | Rights x Tech
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlgorithms touch each and every aspect of modern democratic life. \n\n\nWhile technology has created some ease\, there has also been friction and harms\, often in discrete or invisible ways and most disproportionately impacted women and communities of color. Our hyper digital lives during this pandemic has only reinforced the urgency for algorithmic accountability. But how do we ensure companies and brands are held publicly accountable\, push for sustained transparency and reform moving forward? What strategies actually work to compel companies to enforce their existing policies and work toward more ethical products in the long run? How can we use our position as leaders in technology to advocate for accountability? \n[…] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/rxt-algorithms-and-accountability-rights-x-tech/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T110000
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SUMMARY:Organizing Online Foreign Influence Efforts: Lessons from Topic Models and Content-Based Detection | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION: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 foreign influence efforts organized\, what sets their content apart from legitimate social media activity\, and what have we learned about their potential impact? Much as statistical forensics help illuminate the political economy of corruption\, application of machine-learning to tracking influence effort activity reveals underlying facts about how different countries execute such campaigns and suggest a wide range of possibilities for creating broader public awareness of how external powers are seeking to covertly shape domestic political discussions. \nJacob N. Shapiro is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and directs the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project\, a multi-university consortium that compiles and analyzes micro-level data on politically motivated violence in countries around the world. His research covers conflict\, economic development\, misinformation\, and security policy. He is author of The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations and co-author of Small Wars\, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict. His research has been published in broad range of academic and policy journals as well as a number of edited volumes. He has conducted field research and large-scale policy evaluations in Afghanistan\, Colombia\, India\, and Pakistan. Shapiro received the 2016 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association\, given to a scholar younger than 40\, or within 10 years of earning a Ph.D.\, who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations. Ph.D. Political Science\, M.A. Economics\, Stanford University. B.A. Political Science\, University of Michigan. Shapiro was previously President and Chief Scientist of Giant Oak\, a venture-funded software company. He is a veteran of the United States Navy. \nRegistration for this event is required\, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants before the event.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/organizing-online-foreign-influence-efforts-lessons-from-topic-models-and-content-based-detection-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T080000
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SUMMARY:‘There’s an app for that: Tech governance during COVID-19’ | Oxford Internet Institute
DESCRIPTION: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 following from the pandemic. \nEdited by Linnet Taylor\, Gargi Sharma\, Aaron Martin and Shazade Jameson\, Data Justice and COVID-19 is a unique collection of 38 essays from international authors\, providing commentary and analysis on how countries around the world are turning to digital technology as a mode of governance. Since the book’s publication\, we’ve witnessed a wave of proposals and interventions based on the use of digital technology: apps for contact tracing\, immunity passports\, digital identity credentials\, biometrics\, and so forth. But what might their widespread adoption mean for our societies and polities? \nWe have invited Dr Seda Gürses\, Dr Michael Veale\, Nikita Aggarwal\, Dr Aaron Martin and Corinne Cath-Speth to join in a discussion about the implications of the pandemic for the future of technological governance. The experts will draw from their backgrounds in academia and activism\, to discuss the implications of contact-tracing apps\, data protection and privacy regulations\, as well as biometric surveillance. The effects of these technologies will remain\, even when the pandemic recedes. As such\, we invite you to join this crucial conversation on the (post) pandemic ‘new normal’ of technological governance. \nThe organizers are keen make the webinar as interactive as possible while engaging a plurality of topics. We therefore invite registrants to share their questions in advance about the use of digital technology to govern both during and after the pandemic. What are your greatest hopes or fears for the use of data and technology in this era? What do you think is still poorly understood that merits greater discussion? Please email questions to a.k.martin@uvt.nl
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/theres-an-app-for-that-tech-governance-during-covid-19-oxford-internet-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201123
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SUMMARY:American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:[if lt IE 9]> \n\n“We are thrilled to announce the theme of the 2020 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in St. Louis\, MO: Truth and Responsibility. \n“Truth and Responsibility” is a call to reimagine anthropology to meet the demands of the present moment. The imperative to bear witness\, take action\, and be held accountable to the truths we write and circulate invites us to reflect on our responsibility in reckoning with disciplinary histories\, harms\, and possibilities. To whom are we giving evidence and toward what ends? For whom are we writing? To whom are we accountable\, and in what ways? \nMany consider anthropology to be a holistic social science dedicated to cross-cultural understanding as a way to reduce bigotry and more fully comprehend “what it means to be human.” Others push against this readily circulated origin story\, arguing that “human” remains a highly contested\, political category—evident as the presumed set of rights and protections associated with the “human” continue to be stripped away violently in the communities in which some of us live and work. Which violent histories and epistemologies must anthropologists take responsibility for in telling truth(s) about the discipline’s development? How do the dual histories of settler colonialism and slavery continue to influence anthropological thought and practices? In these political times\, how can anthropologists throughout the globe work to secure a capacious\, progressive vision of the human? How might movements for anti-racism\, decoloniality\, queer liberation\, and healing such as #BlackLivesMatter\, #ProtectMaunaKea\, and #MeToo push a future anthropology out of the ashes of the anthropological past? Finally\, what are the limits and possibilities of the anthropological imagination? \nAcross subfields\, we find truths in patterns of human behavior\, language\, evolution\, and cultural worlds. Industry-positioned anthropologists do this by extending the boundaries of the discipline not as an administrative solution to job shortages but as a source of intervention and knowledge production. Increasingly\, anthropologists who make use of the scientific method question how status and identity help to decide which facts come to represent truth. How might quantitative researchers use our methods to identify patterned truths\, and what responsibility do we hold in challenging conventional wisdom about these patterns? What responsibility do we have to both our colleagues and larger publics\, to push toward increased transparency and ethical grounding in our data collection\, analysis\, and presentation? \nLocated in the vicinity of one of the largest and most influential ancient Indigenous societies in North America and miles from the #FergusonUprising\, St. Louis is a useful site for anthropologists to reckon with anthropological practices and their impact. What is the responsibility of contemporary anthropology to repair relationships with communities who have historically been the target of our discipline? As practitioners\, students\, and professors increasingly resemble these communities\, how can we create new pedagogical\, archeological\, ethnographic\, and mentoring practices? What barriers—in anthropology generally and the American Anthropological Association (AAA) specifically—exclude those whose truths are uncomfortable or inconvenient? What might our discipline and organizations look like if we were to honestly confront barriers that exclude marginalized and contingent scholars? \nPedagogy is a key medium for the communication of anthropological truths. Which (and whose) truths are foregrounded in our curricula? What are the possibilities for a liberatory pedagogy in a precarious\, “post-truth” era? Conferences\, museums\, organizing spaces\, and classrooms are sites where pedagogy and various forms of communication can help us interrogate the performativity of truth. How might anthropologists conceive of truth performances? Might visual\, aural\, and choreographic performances during AAA sessions offer anthropologists alternative genres for truth-telling and truth-making that provoke discussions about responsibility? \nIn accordance with the urgency of the year’s theme\, the questions posed in this call for papers do not have easy answers. The hope is that those who submit proposals will take up these questions and engage in collective thinking and imagining about the truths we hold\, the truths we challenge\, and the responsibilities we bear in co-creating a free and more equitable world. All panel proposals should have a statement about how the panel has incorporated the goals of equity\, diversity\, and inclusion\, and/or an analysis of power.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/american-anthropological-association-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Cervantes Convention Center\, St. Louis\, Missouri\, United States
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SUMMARY:Center for Media at Risk Lecture: Young Mie Kim | Annenberg School for Communication\, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DESCRIPTION: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 digital political campaigns sponsored by unidentifiable\, untraceable groups. By utilizing a user-based\, real-time ad tracking tool and “reverse engineering” techniques\, independent from tech platforms\, Kim’s research reveals the prevalence of foreign and domestic undisclosed campaigns and uncovers targeting\, messaging and organizational strategies of such undisclosed campaigns. The talk offers insight relevant for regulatory policies and discusses the normative implications for the functioning of democracy.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/center-for-media-at-risk-lecture-young-mie-kim-annenberg-school-for-communication-university-of-wisconsin-madison/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T120000
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION: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 ownership. Drawing on one of the first large-scale experimental studies of mobile phone ownership among women\, we analyze the effects of reducing this gender gap. We find increasing women’s mobile phone ownership brings significant economic gains to low-income households. However\, over 13 months nearly 30% of program participants did not retain their handsets\, attenuating individual and household economic benefits. Our study illuminates how the economic and social structures in which mobile technology is embedded profoundly mediate its impact. \n**Note: this seminar will be recorded.** \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Philip Roessler is the Margaret Hamilton Associate Professor of Government at William & Mary. He is an expert in the study of African political economy\, with wide-ranging interests on the causes of conflict\, spatial inequality and the developmental impact of mobile technology. With the support of a 2019 Grand Challenges Call-to-Action grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\, he is currently leading a research team to study the impact of smartphones and their cooperative use within the household on economic well-being in Malawi
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/technology-does-not-operate-in-a-vacuum-the-impact-of-womens-mobile-phone-ownership-on-economic-well-being-in-tanzania-pcmlp-global-media-policy-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201116
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SUMMARY:Academic Writing Month Webinar: Publishing Trends and Academic Writers | Social Science Space
DESCRIPTION: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 articles\, forms and formats are changing. \nElectronic journals can include links to media\, and increasingly open access journals make it easier to reach academics\, professionals\, and practitioners outside a specific discipline. Short\, monograph length books hone in on a single topic\, graphic books illustrate ideas\, book sections are accessible as stand-alone pdfs\, textbooks are becoming interactive to be embedded in e-learning platforms. Researchers are finding other ways to share their work electronically\, including podcasts and videos\, blogs and social media. With more happening via the web versus academic conferences\, longstanding silos are cracking as we move beyond geographic and disciplinary constraints. What do these changes mean for academics—when writers must do more than write? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/academic-writing-month-webinar-publishing-trends-and-academic-writers-social-science-space/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T120000
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SUMMARY:The Common Room: Confronting Threats and Harassment Against Faculty | PEN America
DESCRIPTION: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 and intimidated\, posing a threat to the equitable exchange of ideas in the public sphere. Many faculty have been left to fend for themselves\, with neither higher education leaders nor the major tech platforms taking sufficient steps to stem this tide. What\, then\, can faculty and their allies do to confront this challenge? \n[…] \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-common-room-confronting-threats-and-harassment-against-faculty-pen-america/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society | University of Toronto
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn his new book ‘Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society’\, Deibert will explore how the expansion of society towards a system of surveillance capitalism has created and exacerbated social and political afflictions. The book (and 2020 Massey Lecture series)\, investigate personal data surveillance\, how social media platforms are insidiously designed to hijack our attention\, how social media has created fertile ground for authoritarian practices to take root\, the often overlooked negative environmental impacts of social media\, and\, finally\, what can be done to address these maladies. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/book-launch-reset-reclaiming-the-internet-for-civil-society-university-of-toronto/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T123000
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SUMMARY:‘Understanding Digital Racism After COVID-19’ with Professor Lisa Nakamura | Oxford Internet Institute
DESCRIPTION: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 founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan\, and a writer focusing on digital media\, race\, and gender. \nWe are living in an open-ended crisis with two faces: unexpected accelerated digital adoption and an impassioned and invigorated racial justice movement. These two vast and overlapping cultural transitions require new inquiry into the entangled and intensified dialogue between race and digital technology after COVID. My project analyzes digital racial practices on Facebook\, Twitter\, Zoom\, and TikTok while we are in the midst of a technological and racialized cultural breaking point\, both to speak from within the crisis and to leave a record for those who come after us. How to Understand Digital Racism After COVID-19 contains three parts: Methods\, Objects\, and Making\, designed to provide humanists and critical social scientists from diverse disciplines or experience levels with pragmatic and easy to use tools and methods for accelerated critical analyses of the digital racial pandemic.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/understanding-digital-racism-after-covid-19-with-professor-lisa-nakamura-oxford-internet-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T120000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
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SUMMARY:When good is the enemy of great: Rural broadband in a time of COVID | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION: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 in the United States are un- and under-connected. At least 42 million Americans lack access to broadband because of infrastructure availability\, while upwards of 162 million lack access to the Internet at broadband speeds. Tens of millions lack access to broadband because of cost and affordability. This presentation will focus on the rural-urban digital divide in the United States\, pointing out its endemic features\, and identifying areas of policy failure. Indeed\, the failure to correct the rural-urban digital divide\, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic\, is not one of technology\, but rather of markets\, politics and policy. In short\, the political economy of broadband stands in the way of universal connectivity. I argue that rural broadband policy is defined by the “politics of good enough” and that this politics serves the interests of major telecommunications providers. To contrast these critiques\, the presentation will also highlight community models of broadband deployment\, ranging from municipal broadband to co-operative systems\, which will exemplify how communities are connecting themselves in the wake of market failure. The presentation concludes with a prescriptive set of requirements and responsibilities for what will hopefully be a new administration. \n**Note that this webinar will be recorded.** \nSpeaker Bio: Christopher Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. His current research focuses on the rural-urban digital divide\, telecommunications and broadband policy\, and broadband access during COVID-19. He is the author of the forthcoming book Farm Fresh Broadband: The Future of Rural Connectivity (MIT Press\, 2021) and multiple high-ranking journal articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Hill\, Columbia Journalism Review\, and The Conversation. He is also the author of Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press\, 2017)\, and is currently a Faculty Fellow with the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and a Knight News Innovation Fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Previously he has held fellowships with the World Economic Forum\, the Center for Advanced Study in Global Communications at the University of Pennsylvania\, and Fribourg University in Switzerland.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/when-good-is-the-enemy-of-great-rural-broadband-in-a-time-of-covid-pcmlp-global-media-policy-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T120000
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SUMMARY:Where\, What\, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure? | Stanford PACS
DESCRIPTION: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\, schools\, nonprofits\, and grassroots social movements would each have to reserve space on — or have a key to — a privately-owned facility\, often on a large corporate campus\, in order to meet and work together. It would be a society with no domed capitol buildings\, city halls\, temples\, open campuses\, public parks\, community centers\, or nonprofit spaces. \nFortunately\, this is not the society we live in\, but it does describe the online spaces where our digital information is stored and where much of contemporary life – including civil society action – now takes place. This scenario is inherently threatening to democracies\, in which free expression and public participation presuppose people have both the ability and space to assemble outside of corporate or government monitoring. \nPlease join us in Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest. This is a 3-part series to build awareness\, intention\, and engagement in an ecosystem of ideas and practices that could bring into being digital infrastructure that aligns with community aspirations\, protects personal and group safety\, and prioritizes people\, communities\, and a public good. \nLaura DeNardis will join in conversation with Beatrice Martini for the third session. They will consider the internet as an “on/off” switch and how the digitization of physical systems and places influences our most fundamental rights. They will be joined by experts building physical/digital alternatives. This session will include breakouts to give participants time to discuss potential paths forward. \nSpeakers: \n\nLydia X. Z. Brown\, Policy Counsel\, Privacy and Data Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology\nGreta Bynum\, Co-Director\, Community Tech NY and The New School’s Digital Equity Lab\nRachel Coldicutt\, Technology Strategist and Director of Research Consultancy\, Careful Industries\nLaura DeNardis\, Professor and Interim Dean of the School of Communication\, American University\nJimmy Garcia-Meza\, Co-Founder and CEO\, Cloudplugs\nBeatrice Martini\, Practitioner Fellow\, Digital Civil Society Lab; Education Coordinator\, AccessNow Digital Security Helpline\nMarleen Stikker\, Founder\, Waag\nSander van der Waal\, Project and Concept Developer\, Waag
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/where-what-and-who-is-digital-public-infrastructure-stanford-pacs-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T120000
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SUMMARY:Where\, What\, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure? | Stanford PACS
DESCRIPTION: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\, schools\, nonprofits\, and grassroots social movements would each have to reserve space on — or have a key to — a privately-owned facility\, often on a large corporate campus\, in order to meet and work together. It would be a society with no domed capitol buildings\, city halls\, temples\, open campuses\, public parks\, community centers\, or nonprofit spaces. \nFortunately\, this is not the society we live in\, but it does describe the online spaces where our digital information is stored and where much of contemporary life – including civil society action – now takes place. This scenario is inherently threatening to democracies\, in which free expression and public participation presuppose people have both the ability and space to assemble outside of corporate or government monitoring. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/where-what-and-who-is-digital-public-infrastructure-stanford-pacs/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T120000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201026T155152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201026T161316Z
UID:62038-1604401200-1604404800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:We have seen the enemy...and he is us: When engineering culture collides with human rights advocacy online | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION: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 of policymakers and regulators calling on the tech sector to respect human rights and engage civil society\, but very little empirical knowledge of what happens when they do. This talk is based on my ongoing ethnographic Ph.D. research at the Oxford Internet Institute. I spent four years with a small group of human rights advocates\, including the ACLU and ARTICLE 19\, that are attempting to make the Internet’s infrastructure more “rights respecting” by engaging technical Internet engineering organizations.I will present a detailed anthropological case study of how Internet engineers responded to the human rights efforts. I argue that the engineers’ shared view about the “non-prescriptive nature” of technology encourages them to resist the inclusion of human rights values. Their resistance to human rights matters for a number of reasons\, not least because it is reflective of the broader abdication of responsibility seen in the tech sector and the difficulties of applying the human rights framework in the cultural context of Internet infrastructure. \n**Note that this webinar will be recorded.** \nBio: Corinne Cath-Speth is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. As a cultural anthropologist\, she applies the tools of anthropology to the study of Internet governance\, in particular\, the culture of the often-opaque organizations that enable the technical functioning of the Internet. Within that context\, she focuses on the participation of human rights and civil liberties NGOs\, that are aiming to change computer code instead of legal code to effect social change.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/we-have-seen-the-enemy-and-he-is-us-when-engineering-culture-collides-with-human-rights-advocacy-online-pcmlp-global-media-policy-seminar-series/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201030T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201030T161335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T162045Z
UID:62173-1604059200-1604062800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:CSMaP Seminar Series: Moving closer or further apart? | CSMaP
DESCRIPTION: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 divisions\, and the rise of partisan cable news. This seminar will present new research on social media and political polarization in both the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina\, with a focus on tactics that could mitigate the effects of polarization. These include examining the effects of 1) news consumers deactivating Facebook and 2) introducing a common enemy to reduce conflict between members of rival political groups. This event is open to the public\, but registration is required. \n[…]\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/csmap-seminar-series-moving-closer-or-further-apart-csmap/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201030T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201027T171218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201027T173444Z
UID:62094-1604059200-1604062800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Common Room: Managing Political Difference on the Virtual Campus | PEN America
DESCRIPTION: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 virtually presents additional challenges. What can faculty\, administrators\, and staff do now to prepare for the difficult dialogues that lie ahead? \nJoin Jonathan Friedman\, director of PEN America’s campus free speech program\, for an interactive forum to discuss this issue and possible responses from the higher ed sector. Friedman will be joined by guests Vicka Bell-Robinson\, director of residence life at Miami University\, and Sigal Ben-Porath\, professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-common-room-managing-political-difference-on-the-virtual-campus-pen-america/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201022T163821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T165239Z
UID:61919-1603976400-1603976400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Social Media's Role in the US Election | All Tech is Human
DESCRIPTION: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 in the upcoming US election?\n\nJoin us for a timely and important discussion with two leading experts and YOUR questions in this highly-interaction livestream conversation. We will be joined by special guests Dipayan Ghosh (co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School\, author of Terms of Disservice\, & former public policy advisor at Facebook) & Vera Zakem (Senior Policy and Technology Advisor\, Institute for Security and Technology\, CEO of Zakem Global Strategies\, & former strategy and research at Twitter).\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/social-medias-role-in-the-us-election-all-tech-is-human/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201028T125150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201028T130259Z
UID:62115-1603908000-1603908000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Theodore H. White Lecture: "The Challenges Facing the Media on November 3rd and Beyond" | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAs the 2020 election quickly approaches\, are there similarities to 2016 or is this a continuation of an unprecedented cycle in political history? How has the press evolved during the Trump administration and what effect did it have on covering the political landscape in the primaries and general election. With the growing absence of trust in the traditional press\, what can be done to restore confidence in the institutions\, and how does journalism survive and thrive moving forward. \nRegistration for this event is required\, details on how to join the webinar will be sent to registered participants before the event.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/theodore-h-white-lecture-the-challenges-facing-the-media-on-november-3rd-and-beyond-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T103000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201001T191710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T192931Z
UID:61450-1603789200-1603794600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Digital Public Infrastructure: A Corporation for Public Software | Stanford PACS
DESCRIPTION: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\, schools\, nonprofits\, and grassroots social movements would each have to reserve space on — or have a key to — a privately-owned facility\, often on a large corporate campus\, in order to meet and work together. It would be a society with no domed capitol buildings\, city halls\, temples\, open campuses\, public parks\, community centers\, or nonprofit spaces. \nFortunately\, this is not the society we live in\, but it does describe the online spaces where our digital information is stored and where much of contemporary life – including civil society action – now takes place. This scenario is inherently threatening to democracies\, in which free expression and public participation presuppose people have both the ability and space to assemble outside of corporate or government monitoring. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/digital-public-infrastructure-a-corporation-for-public-software-stanford-pacs/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T173000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201022T204610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T205129Z
UID:61942-1603387800-1603387800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Disinformation\, Authenticity\, and Democratic Participation | Center for Brooklyn History & SSRC
DESCRIPTION: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 as it relates to trust in politicians and institutions. Does an aura of authenticity enable misinformation? Are lies more palatable when generated by an ‘authentic’ source? Join three experts as they dig into identity\, belonging\, political participation and more: Sarah Banet-Weiser\, London School of Economics professor and author of Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture; sociologist Francesca Tripodi of the University of North Carolina\, whose expert testimony before the Senate Judiciary last year focused on censorship\, technology and public discourse; and Andre Brock\, associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures. The program is moderated by Heidi Tworek\, Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia\, author of the book News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications\, 1900-1945\, and advisor to governments around the world on how to address hate speech and disinformation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/disinformation-authenticity-and-democratic-participation-center-for-brooklyn-history-ssrc/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T150000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201014T172825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T173130Z
UID:61729-1603378800-1603378800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Webinar: Election 2020: Setting Expectations and Debunking Myths
DESCRIPTION: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 others\, record-shattering numbers of Americans may vote absentee. \nThe specter of an election relying heavily on absentee voting has brought with it many misconceptions\, myths and simple misunderstandings. People fear that absentee voting is rife with fraud\, and they’re concerned that we may not know who won the election on election night\, week or perhaps even month. \nJoin R Street’s Marc Hyden\, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School Nate Persily\, Senior Counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program Liz Howard and Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman as they set some expectations and debunk myths surrounding the 2020 election cycle in our upcoming webinar.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/webinar-election-2020-setting-expectations-and-debunking-myths/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T140000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201022T204601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T205045Z
UID:61943-1603375200-1603375200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Electoral Anxieties: November 3rd and Its Aftermaths | Social Science Research Council
DESCRIPTION: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 suppression\, unfounded suspicions of voter fraud\, and the effects of disinformation hover over November 3\, 2020. Genuine uncertainty characterizes what may follow. Will the results be accepted? Will a transition be orderly if the incumbent loses? \nIn recent years\, the SSRC Anxieties of Democracy program has been preoccupied with the long-term fracturing of the democratic status quo\, and what can be done to both secure and deepen democracy in ways that serve the public good. This roundtable brings into conversation three experts who bring diverse historical\, structural\, and comparative perspectives on democratic anxieties in the United States and elsewhere\, as well as keen insight into the moment we are now experiencing. Professors Han\, Levitsky\, and Pildes will give “lightning talks” on electoral and constitutional law\, social mobilization and political participation\, and how the current American electoral maelstrom looks in light of the fragility of democracies around the globe. Following initial questions to the panelists from AOD advisory committee co-chairs John Ferejohn and Deborah Yashar\, SSRC President Alondra Nelson will then moderate a discussion on which anxieties most deserve our focus\, and what might be done to strengthen American democracy in the immediate and long-term aftermath of November 3\, 2020. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/electoral-anxieties-november-3rd-and-its-aftermaths-social-science-research-council/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201019T160951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T161445Z
UID:61820-1603371600-1603371600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Future of Democracy: The COVID-19 forecast | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION: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 particular\, what we can expect as a nation. On Episode 25 of “The Future of Democracy\,” we’ll talk with Tufekci\, a sociology professor at UNC Chapel Hill. She’ll share the important sociopolitical and privacy implications that have surfaced this year\, and what to expect for the future.\n—\nThe Future of Democracy\, formerly called VISION\, is a weekly Knight Foundation show about the trends\, ideas and disruptions changing the face of our democracy. Hosted by Sam Gill\, Knight’s chief program officer\, the 30-minute program takes a hard look at the important issues our country is facing today.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-future-of-democracy-the-covid-19-forecast-knight-foundation/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201019T162204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T162204Z
UID:61824-1603370700-1603386000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Knight Public Spaces Forum 2020 | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Knight Public Spaces Forum\, hosted by Knight Foundation \nOctober 21-22\, 2020 from 12:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET each day \n#publicspaces20 \nKnight believes that public spaces play an essential role in fostering more informed and engaged communities. This year’s Knight Public Spaces Forum will focus on how leaders from across the country are pivoting their public spaces in response to the COVID-19 crisis\, economic downturn\, and the most recent wave of racial justice movements.  Curated discussions at the forum will explore several dimensions of public space\, including: \n\nleadership and decision-making\ndesign and programming\ncultivating equitable public spaces\nleveraging technology in the public realm
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/knight-public-spaces-forum-2020-knight-foundation-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201019T160959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T162011Z
UID:61821-1603284300-1603299600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Knight Public Spaces Forum 2020 | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Knight Public Spaces Forum\, hosted by Knight Foundation \nOctober 21-22\, 2020 from 12:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET each day \n#publicspaces20 \nKnight believes that public spaces play an essential role in fostering more informed and engaged communities. This year’s Knight Public Spaces Forum will focus on how leaders from across the country are pivoting their public spaces in response to the COVID-19 crisis\, economic downturn\, and the most recent wave of racial justice movements.  Curated discussions at the forum will explore several dimensions of public space\, including: \n\nleadership and decision-making\ndesign and programming\ncultivating equitable public spaces\nleveraging technology in the public realm
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/knight-public-spaces-forum-2020-knight-foundation/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T120000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20200929T155419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200929T172118Z
UID:61381-1603278000-1603281600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Speaker Series on Misinformation with Natalie Jomini Stroud | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION: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 current Director of the Center for Media Engagement in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. The Center for Media Engagement examines commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways of improving media. Stroud’s research has received numerous national and international awards\, including the International Communication Association (ICA)’s prestigious Outstanding Book Award in 2012 for her book Niche News: The Politics of News Choice\, the inaugural Public Engagement Award from the Journalism Studies Division of the ICA in 2019\, and the 2016 Bill Eadie Distinguished Award for a Scholarly Article and 2011 Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association. Stroud serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals and the advisory boards of SciLine\, a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, and the Social Science Research Council’s Media & Democracy Initiative. Her research has appeared in Journal of Communication\, Journalism\, Political Communication\, Public Opinion Quarterly\, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication\, and New Media & Society. Stroud twice received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the Communication Studies Graduate Community. \n[…] \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/speaker-series-on-misinformation-with-natalie-jomini-stroud-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T190000
DTSTAMP:20260928T173633
CREATED:20201005T182355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T184031Z
UID:61544-1603220400-1603220400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Navigating the Noise: Election Coverage in the Digital Age | Center for Brooklyn History
DESCRIPTION: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 public office. \nIn 2020\, voters will make choices about candidates based on information gleaned from a fragmented and polarized news ecosystem that includes a shrinking core of professional journalists competing for attention with a growing periphery of partisan opinionators and hostile foreign interlopers. Panelists include Julia Azari\, associate professor of political science at Marquette University\, author of Delivering the People’s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate and regular contributor to political science blog The Mischiefs of Faction; Michael Wagner\, professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Wisconsin; and Claire Wardle\, Founder and Director of First Draft. Moderated by Johanna Dunaway\, professor of communication at Texas A&M University.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/navigating-the-noise-election-coverage-in-the-digital-age-center-for-brooklyn-history/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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