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SUMMARY:Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement
DESCRIPTION:In “Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement\,” law and computer science scholars from across the country will identify and propose solutions to barriers that inhibit enforcement of privacy rights. Featuring keynotes from Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn and FTC Director Samuel Levine. The symposium is a collaboration between UIowa’s Innovation\, Business and Law Center and Harvard’s Journal of Law and Technology.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/beyond-the-ftc-the-future-of-privacy-enforcement/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School and livestream via Zoom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T140000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230201T180902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T041744Z
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SUMMARY:GW IDDP: Research Spotlight Webinar Featuring Jeffrey Lees
DESCRIPTION:In his project “Real Time Monitoring of 2022 US Election-Related Misinformation and its Psycho-Social Correlates on Twitter” Jeffrey Lees seeks to answer the question what is the role of superusers? We seek to understand whether superusers are early commenters\, whether superusers change the discussion agenda\, and whether superusers instigate additional public interest from others.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/gw-iddp-research-spotlight-webinar-featuring-jeffrey-lees/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230323T201235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T175519Z
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SUMMARY:Rest of World Labor x Tech Reporting Fellowship | Rest of World
DESCRIPTION:Rest of World is excited to announce a new opportunity for reporters native to regions outside the West who want to produce a deeply reported body of work on how tech impacts labor and workers around the world. \nWe are looking for four reporting fellows to join us for a full year and produce a series of articles on tech’s relationship with labor\, and the tech industry’s influence on both the nature of work and the state of workers. The fellowship is designed to engage reporters native to the regions we cover who have a basic understanding of those regions’ tech and business landscape. The reporting fellows will become part of our regular reporting team on the ground\, helping shape our storytelling by contributing original ideas for stories\, and working alongside our reporters and editors based around the world. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/rest-of-world-labor-x-tech-reporting-fellowship-rest-of-world/
CATEGORIES:Fellowship
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230603T034316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T185830Z
UID:77986-1686072600-1686079800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Steering AI for the Public Good: A Dialogue for the Future | Institute for Advanced Study
DESCRIPTION:Recent\, rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment have demonstrated technology’s potential to drastically transform and potentially improve the lives of many people across the world. From unlocking millions of hours’ worth of biological research in a fraction of the time to reducing the amount of energy used by industrial power plants\, the use of AI could power the change needed to combat some of the most pressing issues of our time. But robust\, adaptive strategies\, including practices and policies\, are needed to ensure that AI technology will benefit all of humanity. Strategies to ensure that AI tools are developed and used responsibly must be a fundamental part of the development process rather than an afterthought. \n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/steering-ai-for-the-public-good-a-dialogue-for-the-future-institute-for-advanced-study/
LOCATION:Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230623T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230624T235959
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230222T163751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T163751Z
UID:77367-1687478400-1687651199@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Joint Computation + Journalism European Data & Computational Journalism Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Joint Computation+Journalism and European Data & Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry\, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production. It will be hosted on June 23-24 at ETH Zurich\, Switzerland. \nThis unique conference will focus on information\, data\, social and computer sciences\, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism. This is a venue where journalists and researchers meet –— news organisations share experiences with computational and social scientists\, and together explore new kinds of practices that can serve the public good. The conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. \nThis is the 10th edition of the Computation+Journalism Symposium (C+J)\, and the 4th edition of the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference (datajconf)\, held together jointly for the first time in 2023 in Zurich\, Switzerland. It is also the first time that the C+J Symposium will be held outside of the US.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-joint-computation-journalism-european-data-computational-journalism-conference/
LOCATION:ETH Zurich\, Zurich\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T160000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230531T164635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T190311Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the future of AI (and us!): registration for the event now open | vera.ai VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Maarten Schenk is co-founder of Belgian fact-checking outlet Lead Stories. He is very active in the field of debunking. At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia\, DW’s Jochen Spangenberg asked him about his views on how Artificial Intelligence will impact the production as well as spreading of disinformation\, and what this means for fact-checkers like him.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/meet-the-future-of-ai-and-us-registration-for-the-event-now-open-vera-ai-verification-assisted-by-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230707T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230707T000000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20231130T154409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T200725Z
UID:78388-1688688000-1688688000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Call for papers: The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024 | DSA Observatory
DESCRIPTION:To coincide with the Digital Services Act (DSA) becoming directly applicable across the EU on 17 February 2024\, the DSA Observatory at the Institute for Information Law\, University of Amsterdam\, will hold a two-day conference on ‘The DSA and Platform Regulation’ at the Amsterdam Law School on 15-16 February 2024.   \nThe DSA is the EU’s landmark piece of legislation for addressing illegal and harmful content and activity\, and protecting fundamental rights online. The DSA becoming fully applicable marks the end of a years-long drafting and negotiation process and opens a new chapter: that of its enforcement\, practicable access to justice\, and potential to set global standards. While the DSA extends the e-Commerce Directive’s core principles for the regulation of online services that handle third-party content and codifies existing self-regulatory practices initiated by online platforms\, it also introduces significant legal innovations for the regulation of platforms in democratic states: a tiered system of due diligence obligations for intermediary services\, the regulation of content moderation through terms of service enforcement\, systemic risk assessment obligations for the most widely used platforms and search engines\, and access to data for researchers.   \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/call-for-papers-the-dsa-and-platform-regulation-conference-2024-dsa-observatory/
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230830T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230830T160000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230829T195024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T191949Z
UID:78241-1693400400-1693411200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:“Whose data is it anyway? Ethical\, practical\, and methodological challenges of data donation in messenger groups research” | WI Methods Lab
DESCRIPTION:When: Wednesday\, August 30th\, 2023\, 1–4 pm\nWhere: Weizenbaum Institute + Zoom (hybrid)\nRegistration: https://forms.gle/7NJngW7Ty4c8TWs3A \nMessaging applications\, such as WhatsApp\, Telegram\, and Signal\, are increasingly used for all forms of political communication. They became important venues for people to talk about political issues\, share news\, and communicate with governmental institutions. Unlike public pages of social networking cites\, closed messaging groups provided relatively intimate and controlled spaces\, where political discussions can trigger political participation and activism. Enhanced privacy of these closed spaces attracted political groups that range from protesters and activists in authoritarian regimes to far-right organizations in the democratic states. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/whose-data-is-it-anyway-ethical-practical-and-methodological-challenges-of-data-donation-in-messenger-groups-research-wi-methods-lab/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230831T193720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T192519Z
UID:78242-1697220000-1697288400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Conferences | SUNY Council on Writing
DESCRIPTION:Call for Proposals\, 2023\n“Writing\, Thinking\, and Learning with AI:\nExploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence”  \nJoin us October 13–14\, 2023\, for a virtual conference hosted by the SUNY Council on Writing and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University \nThe recent attention given to the topic of artificial intelligence has been largely attributed to the introduction of ChatGPT\, the conversational (and controversial) chatbot released by OpenAI. ChatGPT\, itself an assemblage of many technologies like large language models\, neural networks\, and natural language processing that we colloquially simplify to “AI\,” represents only a portion of the larger landscape of machine learning and artificial intelligence development that has taken place over decades. But the sudden explosion of public access to sophisticated generative AI programs like ChatGPT has pushed into the mainstream the idea that machines can “write” (perhaps even in ways some readers see as cogent and well-reasoned) in response to open-ended questions. What does it mean to practice rhetoric in this age of artificial intelligence? What does it mean\, more broadly\, to write\, think\, and learn? How does this new development in “writing technology” reshape our understanding and practice as human rhetors? What are the areas of concern and/or potential\, and how do we address them in different disciplines and contexts? What rhetorical relationships of AI and writing\, thinking\, and learning might we wish to amplify or attenuate? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/conferences-suny-council-on-writing/
LOCATION:Stony Brooke University
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230921T012652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T204738Z
UID:78295-1697886000-1697909400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Workshop on Responsible and Open Foundation Models | Open foundation models
DESCRIPTION:In the last year\, open foundation models have proliferated widely. Given the rapid adoption of these models\, cultivating a responsible open source AI ecosystem is crucial and urgent. Our workshop presents an opportunity to learn from experts in different fields who have worked on responsible release strategies\, risk mitigation\, and policy interventions that can help. \n\n\n\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/workshop-on-responsible-and-open-foundation-models-open-foundation-models/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T163000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230930T012700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T204253Z
UID:78294-1697963400-1697992200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after Twitter | Annenberg Public Policy Center
DESCRIPTION:If you use social media data in your research\, you’re going to want to listen up\, because we’ve reached a crisis point. Digital data access has survived in an uncomfortable and unpredictable flux for years\, but the most recent wave of policy changes may well be existential. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-post-api-conference-social-media-data-acquisition-after-twitter-annenberg-public-policy-center/
LOCATION:Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S 36th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T120000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20230831T193636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T192829Z
UID:78243-1699952400-1700049600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:AI for Humanity and Society 2023 | WASP-HS
DESCRIPTION:As we face an increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday practices\, it becomes more critical than ever to examine how AI affects our lives and society. Researchers in the social sciences and humanities have made essential observations and analyses on this topic. Yet\, we still need grounded\, situated\, and relational understandings of how AI impacts us individually and collectively. \nTo reach this goal\, it is imperative to closely examine the norms\, values\, and assumptions underpinning current AI research\, inquiry about the criticality embedded in scholarly practices\, and question the relevance of the methods chosen.  We must identify what works well for all groups in society and discuss what needs improvement or change. \nThis is why WASP-HS welcomes researchers\, representatives from industry\, and policymakers to discuss these issues on 14-15 November at Malmö Live in Malmö\, Sweden. \nWe look forward to your thoughts and ideas on how to address these challenges so we can work together to contribute to a future we all want to live in. \nWelcome to the WASP-HS conference AI for Humanity and Society 2023! \n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-for-humanity-and-society-2023-wasp-hs/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20231130T153929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T203758Z
UID:78389-1701874800-1701882000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Are Psychological Inoculations Against Misinformation Likely to be Effective at Scale? A Discussion Between Sander van der Linden and Gordon Pennycook | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation\, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media\, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern University. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/are-psychological-inoculations-against-misinformation-likely-to-be-effective-at-scale-a-discussion-between-sander-van-der-linden-and-gordon-pennycook-shorenstein-center/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240110T185258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T190428Z
UID:78443-1705492800-1705496400@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Online Content Moderation from the Trenches: Veterans Who Have Fought the Fight | R Street Institute
DESCRIPTION:Online content moderators have a difficult and thankless job: delivering results and determining what you see on the web. But what do they actually do\, and how do they do it? Hear from actual moderators who have served at some of the largest social media platforms in the world and are now at the forefront of content moderation in the technology space. \nJoin us for a rollicking discussion on the past\, present and future of online content moderation with people who have overcome some of the most trying situations in the history of the internet. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/online-content-moderation-from-the-trenches-veterans-who-have-fought-the-fight-r-street-institute/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T000000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240125T155530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T155756Z
UID:78478-1710460800-1710460800@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Call for Applications: The Research Conference on Communications\, Information and Internet Policy | TPRC
DESCRIPTION:TPRC is the preeminent annual interdisciplinary conference on communications\, information\, and Internet policy that convenes researchers and policymakers from law\, economics\, engineering\, computer science\, public policy\, data science\, social sciences\, and related fields working in academia\, industry\, government\, and nonprofit organizations around the world. \nTPRC is seeking submissions for its 52nd conference\, including papers\, posters\, panels\, tutorials and the Student Paper Competition. \nPaper and poster proposals can be submitted through March 15\, 2024. \nStudent Papers can be submitted through April 30\, 2024. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/call-for-applications-the-research-conference-on-communications-information-and-internet-policy-tprc/
LOCATION:American University Washington College of Law\, Washington D.C\, District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240320T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240320T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240201T204147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T210153Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging directions in news use research: Project launch event and open conference | University of Surrey
DESCRIPTION:This event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust funded parents’ news use project – which runs from the fall of 2023 to the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use project aims to examine how parents engage with and respond to news at critical moments of crisis. The project team includes Professor Ranjana Das\, Dr Thomas Roberts\, Dr Emily Setty and Dr Maria-Nerina Boursinou from the Department of Sociology (University of Surrey). \nA day-long\, international\, virtual conference – this event brings together a global group of scholars involved with researching news use\, news audiences and consumption\, and news engagement and disengagement. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/emerging-directions-in-news-use-research-project-launch-event-and-open-conference-university-of-surrey/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Surrey":MAILTO:https://www.surrey.ac.uk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T233000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240327T221732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T225132Z
UID:78583-1711497600-1711582200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Rethinking the Inevitability of AI | University of Virginia
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: \nRethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context \nApril 22\, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due \nJuly 18\, 2024: Date of online conference \nIn late 2023\, news broke that Microsoft was looking into developing nuclear reactors to power their forays into AI. According to the International Energy Agency\, data centers may be on track to double their energy usage by 2026 thanks in large part to AI and other power-hungry computing applications. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai-university-of-virginia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240327T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240328T120000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240327T222137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T224347Z
UID:78580-1711544400-1711627200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Good Systems Symposium HUB | UT Austin
DESCRIPTION:Join Good Systems at UT Austin for its fourth annual symposium exploring the future of human-centered\, values-driven artificial intelligence. Connect with an interdisciplinary and cross-sector community of faculty leaders\, researchers\, students\, professionals\, and civic leaders to discuss the most pressing opportunities and challenges in Ethical AI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Good Systems Symposium is the signature annual event of the UT Austin interdisciplinary research challenge to design AI technologies for the benefit of society. It is free and open to the public. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/good-systems-symposium-hub/
CATEGORIES:Conference
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240403T130000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240327T222054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T224359Z
UID:78581-1712145600-1712149200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Preserving Digital Images and Data: Procedural\, Policy\, and Privacy Issues | Good Systems
DESCRIPTION:21st century media pose challenges to preserving the historical record. Collecting institutions need guidance and new strategies in order to save selective cellphone video\, GPS data\, and video from surveillance cameras\, drones\, and police bodycams. In this Talk\, Howard Besser will discuss how saving this type of material poses procedural\, policy\, and privacy issues. And he will demonstrate the ongoing tension between preservation and privacy. The presentation will include a case-study of preserving cellphone videos from the Occupy Movement\, and a close look at police body cam videos. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/preserving-digital-images-and-data-procedural-policy-and-privacy-issues-good-systems/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T161500
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240409T175008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T153526Z
UID:78615-1713193200-1713197700@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Understanding Media Habits & Engaging Latino Communities - CSMaP
DESCRIPTION:Latinos are the largest racial and ethnic group in the United States\, comprising more than 60 million people. Yet\, researchers know comparatively little about the information Latinos consume online\, and how it shapes their political attitudes and beliefs. This limits the ability for multiple stakeholders — ranging from the academic community to national nonprofits to local community organizations — to understand this diverse and politically important group. \nAt this virtual event\, scholars will share new research from CSMaP’s Bilingual Election Monitor project\, which pairs survey responses and digital trace data to study Latino online media consumption and belief in misinformation narratives. Following the presentation\, we’ll convene experts from civil society and community groups to discuss the challenges our current digital media ecosystem presents for understanding and engaging Latino communities in politics \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/understanding-media-habits-engaging-latino-communities-csmap/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240502T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240502T120000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240521T050837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T051604Z
UID:78663-1714640400-1714651200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Disinfo Day
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Good Systems’ “Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Protect Information Integrity” research team\, this virtual event brings together researchers and thought leaders working across disciplines and sectors\, focusing on developing AI tools for use by journalists\, fact-checkers\, and researchers. The event will feature three keynote talks and a panel discussion covering a wide range of topics. Viewers are encouraged to participate in interactive Q&As following each session.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/disinfo-day/
LOCATION:University of Texas at Austin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240502T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20240502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240327T222010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T224247Z
UID:78582-1714640400-1714665600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:2nd Annual Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium | Good Systems
DESCRIPTION:The Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium is a day-long gathering of interdisciplinary professionals across academia and industry to inform\, examine\, and discuss how generative artificial intelligence impacts our cities. Happening in the Avaya Auditorium on the University of Texas at Austin main campus\, this robust program will feature presenters from multiple universities across Texas and beyond\, as well as smart mobility professionals working in our cities. Students from the Urban Information Lab at UT Austin will also present their research in this area\, further generating discussion on this timely topic. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSymposium attendees will benefit from the rich diversity of perspectives present\, and a networking lunch will allow opportunities for connection and collaboration. We aim to create a space for interdisciplinary learning\, relationship building\, and problem solving as AI technologies continue to shape our cities. \nThis event is organized by UT Austin researchers working on A Good System for Smart Cities\, a core research project of Good Systems. Good Systems is a university-wide\, interdisciplinary research grand challenge focused on designing ethical AI technologies for the benefit of society.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/2nd-annual-smart-cities-and-generative-ai-symposium-good-systems/
LOCATION:University of Texas at Austin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
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UID:78654-1715184000-1715187600@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:What is the Cloud Doing to the Internet? | WZB
DESCRIPTION:The future of the Internet is (in) the cloud. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS)\, rather than platforms like X or Meta\, will become the tech industry’s most powerful players. To the extent this is not already the case\, the choices of these cloud companies will influence what our wired world looks like\, including our much-beloved (and much-reviled) Internet.  In other words\, the growing importance of cloud computing for networking and connectivity will impact the future of the public Internet. In this talk\, I will present some preliminary findings from my ongoing ethnographic research on the impact of the cloud industry on the Internet at the University of Delft and pair that with insights from my Ph.D. research on Internet governance. I will draw out how critical Internet governance services are increasingly moving onto the cloud and turning towards the delivery of industry\, rather than consumer\, services. I will use these various insights and build on existing literature in the field (Volker 2021\, Todd 2020\, etc) to speculate on the future of the Internet as we know it. I will also open up the discussion on how key Internet regulations might need to be updated in light of these developments. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/what-is-the-cloud-doing-to-the-internet-wzb/
LOCATION:WZB Berlin Social Science Center\, Reichpietschufer 50\, 10785\, Berlin\, Raum\, E425\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T183000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240415T152951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T043308Z
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SUMMARY:Internet & Society: The Trans-Atlantic Research Future | Internet Democracy Initiative
DESCRIPTION:In May 2024\, the Internet Democracy Initiative will host an Internet and Society Conference at the Northeastern University-London campus. Like the IDI\, the conference will focus on the role of the internet in structuring democracy\, society\, and markets with emphasis on areas that have widespread information and social media implications. Conference sessions will feature academic\, industry\, and government experts engaging with one another across five thematic areas: \n\n\n\nmisinformation\,\nmedia narratives\,\ncyber governance and cyber resilience\,\nAI governance and regulations\, and\ndata access and ethics.\n\nThe goal of the conference is to further collaborations that can bring about the types of changes that the IDI imagines. Across the sessions\, speakers and participants will be asked to consider mechanisms to ensure that historically excluded voices are represented\, amplified\, and considered in data structures and decision-making processes.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/internet-society-the-trans-atlantic-research-future-internet-democracy-initiative/
LOCATION:Northeastern University London
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240528T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240528T160000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240521T194158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T195039Z
UID:78688-1716908400-1716912000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:The Material Conditions of Platform Governance | Lab Platform Governance\, Media and Technology (PGMT)
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we present a methodological outlook for empirical and historical studies of platforms\, emphasizing their unique characteristics like programmability and multisidedness. We explore how web archives play a critical role in preserving bits of their past. Despite the challenges posed by the ephemerality and continuous updates of platforms\, we show how web archives manage to save valuable information about their historical development and past states of operations. These archived pages are key sources for crafting the life stories of technological artifacts\, including platforms and apps. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-material-conditions-of-platform-governance-lab-platform-governance-media-and-technology-pgmt/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T170000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240521T043546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T044525Z
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SUMMARY:Big Tech Feminism | WZB
DESCRIPTION:Strange as it may seem\, Big Tech has become feminist. Meta has a team devoted to women’s safety. Venmo monitors its app for gender-based discrimination. Bumble aspires to make misogyny illegal. And it’s not just talk: Big Tech is putting its money where its mouth is\, devoting significant time and resources to achieving a feminist agenda. This talk interrogates the emergence of Big Tech feminism\, sounding alarms about its tendencies and implications before offering a competing path. In particular\, we confront a phenomenon we call “safety creep\,” whereby a network of feminists\, tech companies\, and lawmakers repurpose valid feminist concerns about sex harms to expansively control online sexual activity\, including harmless sex acts with great emancipatory potential. Safety creep empowers companies and lawmakers to push ostensibly feminist projects that would\, in fact\, undermine competing values of protecting pleasure\, enhancing freedom\, and disempowering discourses that produce unnecessary harm. In response\, this talk advances a competing feminist agenda. At a time when safety has become the dominant framework for platform governance and legislation\, we argue that safety is best served by cultivating autonomy and more egalitarian power distributions to set the norms of sexual encounters\, instead of the punitive and prudish approaches that Big Tech currently embraces. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/big-tech-feminism-wzb/
LOCATION:WZB Berlin Social Science Center\, Reichpietschufer 50\, 10785\, Berlin\, Raum\, E425\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T123000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240918T154214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T154214Z
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SUMMARY:The promise and perils of AI: Issues at stake in the 2024 election | Brookings
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of society\, from education and work to health care and finance.  Its widespread adoption also has started to impact global politics\, from elections to international conflict. The tradeoffs between AI’s positive and more harmful effects are still being debated. While AI could allow transformative advances in scientific discovery and democratize access to high quality\, personalized education\, it also has the potential to entrench explicit and implicit biases\, erode students’ privacy\, and create overdependence on AI tools.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-promise-and-perils-of-ai-issues-at-stake-in-the-2024-election-brookings/
LOCATION:Spelman College
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T000000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240125T151555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T155407Z
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SUMMARY:The Research Conference on Communications\, Information and Internet Policy | TPRC
DESCRIPTION:The Research Conference on Communications\, Information and Internet Policy \nSEPTEMBER 20-21\, 2024 \nWASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW\, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY \nWASHINGTON\, D.C. \nTPRC promotes interdisciplinary thinking on current and emerging issues in communications and the Internet by disseminating and discussing new research relevant to policy questions in the U.S. and around the world. It serves researchers\, policymakers\, and members of the private sector and civil society\, from students to well-established practitioners. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-research-conference-on-communications-information-and-internet-policy-tprc/
LOCATION:American University Washington College of Law\, Washington D.C\, District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T160000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240918T152148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T152148Z
UID:509084-1726840800-1726848000@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:Addressing Researcher Harassment | George Washington University
DESCRIPTION:The George Washington University’s Institute for Data\, Democracy & Politics and the Researcher Support Consortium invite you to join them for Addressing Researcher Harassment: A Fireside Chat and Panel Discussion to Launch New Research Support Tools.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/addressing-researcher-harassment-george-washington-university/
LOCATION:George Washington Univeristy\, Washington D.C\, District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240930T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240930T153000
DTSTAMP:20260928T092016
CREATED:20240918T151917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T152234Z
UID:509081-1727703000-1727710200@mediawell.ssrc.org
SUMMARY:CrowdTangle Funeral | The Knight-Georgetown Institute
DESCRIPTION:The Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) and the Coalition for Independent Technology Research invite you to a memorial service for CrowdTangle\, a tool that offered thousands around the globe the ability to analyze real time trends in the information people were sharing. Meta eliminated CrowdTangle on August 14\, 2024\, in the middle of a year in which more people are voting worldwide than ever before. \nThis memorial will highlight the value of data access tools like CrowdTangle\, and lay out the way forward for establishing a new standard of public data access.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/crowdtangle-funeral/
LOCATION:Georgetown University\, Washington D.C\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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