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SUMMARY:Dr. Casey Fiesler (Colorado Boulder) on Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech | Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center
DESCRIPTION:Hardly a day passes without a new technology ethics scandal–from privacy violations on social media platform to biased algorithms to controversial data collection for training facial recognition systems. In computing practice and research\, good intentions sometimes still lead to negative consequences. This talk describes three lessons from my research that inform ethical practices in studying\, building\, and teaching about technology: (1) empirical work towards best practices for research ethics in data science\, including understanding possible harms from data collected without consent; (2) ethical debt (as a parallel to technical debt) in technology design and research as the precursor to the types of unintended consequences that underly ethical controversies; and (3) the importance of empowering everyone to not just create but to critique technology. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/dr-casey-fiesler-colorado-boulder-on-three-lessons-towards-ethical-tech-barnard-vagelos-computational-science-center/
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SUMMARY:Lies and Elections | Knight First Amendment Institute
DESCRIPTION:How should the government regulate election-related speech? Trump’s “Big Lie” raises the question of whether lies about election results should be regulated by the social media platforms\, as well as the government. But of course\, these kinds of lies are not the only kinds of election-related lies that raise thorny free speech questions. Can or should foreign actors be able to intervene in electoral speech in the run-up to elections? How much should campaign finance law be used to patrol misinformation and disinformation about election donations and spending? Can there be stricter regulation of election-related speech without that justifying vote-suppressing laws targeting virtually nonexistent election fraud? More fundamentally\, how exceptional should we consider the electoral context when it comes to the regulation of lies? And how do race\, nationality\, and gender play into both election-related disinformation and its regulation?\n\n\n[…]\n\n end article metadata  \n end article social  \n end article body
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/lies-and-elections-knight-first-amendment-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T140000
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SUMMARY:Credible threat: Attacks against women online and the future of democracy | Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Activists. Journalists. Elected Representatives. Public Intellectuals. When women are vocal about political and social issues\, too-often they are flogged with attacks via social networking sites\, comment sections\, discussion boards\, email\, and direct message. Rather than targeting their ideas\, the abuse targets their identities\, pummeling them with rape threats\, attacks on their appearance and presumed sexual behavior\, and a cacophony of misogynistic\, racist\, xenophobic\, and homophobic stereotypes and epithets. Identity-based attacks are particularly severe for those women from racial\, ethnic\, and religious minority groups or who work in domains dominated by men. Feminists and women who challenge traditional gender norms are also frequently targeted. This toxicity comes with economic\, professional\, and psychological costs for those targeted\, but it also exacts societal-level costs that are rarely recognized: it erodes civil liberties\, diminishes our public discourse\, thins the knowledge available to inform policy and electoral decision-making\, and teaches women that activism and public service are high-risk endeavors to be avoided. Sobieraj traces these underexplored effects\, showing that when identity-based attacks succeed in constraining women’s use of digital publics\, there are democratic consequences that cannot be ignored. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/credible-threat-attacks-against-women-online-and-the-future-of-democracy-centre-for-research-in-communication-and-culture/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T100000
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SUMMARY:AI in Healthcare: Mitigating Disparities\, Biases & Misinformation | Hariri Institute
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) and social media are finding useful applications in health care\, yet\, their use may perpetuate or even accentuate inequities\, disparities\, and the critical role of social determinants of health\, or even facilitate the spread of health-related misinformation. The symposium will convene AI experts\, medical researchers and practitioners\, and computer and social scientists. The objective is to seek consensus and synthesize ideas coming from different vantage points on how to (1) approach algorithmic or data biases and develop methods to mitigate them\, (2) develop a framework to leverage AI as part of a learning\, continually improving health systems\, and (3) grapple with the increasing influence of social media in the public perception of health issues\, especially their role in spreading misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-in-healthcare-mitigating-disparities-biases-misinformation-hariri-institute/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T120000
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SUMMARY:Mainstream Media is the Problem | Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:There is a lot of concern about how the news ecosystem affects public opinion\, political polarization\, and democracy. Most of the research and public debate focuses on overtly fake material\, particularly as it is distributed through social media. But\, the vast majority of news consumption is actual produced by mainstream media\, and the most common mode of consumption is television. Meanwhile\, many key demographic groups consume almost no news at all. Concerns about lack of information or misinformation should focus on where people actual consume (or don’t consume) news\, and the product they are actually consuming: mainstream media. \nDavid Rothschild is an economist at Microsoft Research. He has written extensively\, in both the academic and popular press. His work pushes the boundaries on varying data and methods: polling\, prediction markets\, social media and online data\, and large behavioral and administrative data. His work focuses on solving practical and interesting questions including: mapping and updating public opinion\, the market for news\, effect of advertising\, finance\, and an economist take on public policy. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/david-rothschild-mainstream-media-is-the-problem-network-science-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211018T123000
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SUMMARY:CDCS Colloquium: Social Media and the Shape of “Man” | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr during its heyday from 2010-2015 and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist Mark Aguhar as a recurring touchstone\, this talk’s provocation is that the assumptive ways in which a social media platform “should” be designed — singular identity\, linear text exchanges\, direct messaging\, traversable connections\, and more — in fact instantiate a model of “Man” that can be traced back to the long violence of European colonialism. Relying on Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of the idea of homo oeconomicus as well as Lisa Lowe’s historical analysis of the colonial-era origins of the modern liberal subject\, this talk excavates these assumptions by advocating for and practicing a critical “close reading of design.” It then offers alternative design examples as opportunities for resisting this logic\, inviting us to imagine digital sociality from a standpoint of interdependence instead of the stance of the assumptive liberal individual. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cdcs-colloquium-alexander-cho-university-of-california-santa-barbara-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T173000
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SUMMARY:Conspiracy Theories and Political Culture\, Past and Present: A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Join Adrienne LaFrance\, executive editor of The Atlantic and James McAuley\, The Atlantic contributor and author of The House of Fragile Things\, a history of Dreyfus-era France\, for a conversation around the long history of conspiracy theory and its role in political culture\, then and now. The discussion will be moderated by Sophia Rosenfeld\, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at Penn. \nThe talk is part of the Penn Libraries’ Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair Distinguished Lecture Series. The Annenberg School for Communication is a co-sponsor. \nThis event will be held remotely\, via Zoom. Link information will be provided to registrants. The event is free and open to the public. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/conspiracy-theories-and-political-culture-past-and-present-a-conversation-with-the-atlantics-adrienne-lafrance-and-james-mcauley-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T120000
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SUMMARY:How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize echo chambers\, foreign misinformation campaigns\, and algorithmic radicalization. Yet a careful review of the scientific literature indicates there is surprisingly little evidence that these factors shape political beliefs or inter-group attitudes. Drawing upon multiple field experiments\, large-scale analysis of social media data\, and longitudinal in-depth interviews\, this talk will describe Bail’s new book\, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Polarizing. He will offer a new account of political polarization on social media that emphasizes the role of social identity\, status-seeking\, and social learning. \nThis talk will explain how social media distorts how people understand what other people think of them\, and how this prism-like effect pushes social outcasts towards extremism and mutes moderates who do not depend on social media for their sense of self-worth. \n[…]\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/how-status-seeking-and-social-learning-shape-political-polarization-on-social-media-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T123000
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SUMMARY:CDCS Colloquium: Beyond fairness: Datafication and Social Justice | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Lina Dencik is Professor in Digital Communication and Society at Cardiff’s School of Journalism\, Media and Culture and Co-Founder/Director of the Data Justice Lab. Her research concerns the interplay between media developments and social and political change\, with a particular focus on resistance\, governance\, and the politics of data. \nShe has published five books including Media and Global Civil Society (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012)\, Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century (co-authored with Peter Wilkin; Peter Lang\, 2015)\, Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Emancipation and Control (co-edited with Oliver Leistert; Rowman & Littlefield International\, 2015)\, Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (co-authored with Arne Hintz and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen; Polity Press 2018)\, and The Media Manifesto (co-authored with Natalie Fenton\, Des Freedman\, and Justin Schlosberg; Polity Press\, 2020). \nShe holds a Ph.D. from Goldsmiths\, University of London and has previously worked at the Central European University in Budapest where she is still a Fellow with the Center for Media\, Data and Society (CMDS). Prior to that she worked as a television producer/director at Brook Lapping Productions in London. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cdcs-colloquium-lina-dencik-cardiff-university-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T180000
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SUMMARY:The Facebook Files: Are teens and democratic societies at risk? | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two months\, the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series has chronicled the ways that Facebook and its platforms favor elites\, harm teenagers’ mental health\, encourage toxicity\, take weak action to stop human trafficking and drug cartels\, suppress political movements\, and ignore the concerns of their employees that Facebook can clean up its act. On Monday\, November 1\, 2021\, the lead reporter of the “Facebook Files\,” WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz\, will join us in the John F. Kennedy\, Jr. Forum to discuss his groundbreaking reporting on the harm that Facebook may be inflicting on its users and democracy. Dr. Latanya Sweeney\, the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School\, will moderate the conversation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-facebook-files-are-teens-and-democratic-societies-at-risk-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T000000
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SUMMARY:Lessons From the First Internet Ages | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:What is the future of the internet? Thirty years after the creation of the first web page\, what have we learned about the impact of the internet on communication\, connection\, and democracy? \nJoin the Knight Foundation for Lessons from the First Internet Ages\, a virtual symposium that will explore and evaluate what key figures in the development of the internet and online communities have learned from their experiences. Curated by two leading experts on internet law\, these conversations will feature contributions from pivotal internet figures\, technologists\, and cyber scholars. \nCurated by Mary Anne Franks and Eric Goldman \n[…]\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/lessons-from-the-first-internet-ages-knight-foundation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T120000
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SUMMARY:Accounting for AI — a Comparison of Methods | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:A few years ago\, Finale Doshi-Velez and Mason Kortz – and a squad of collaborators – unpacked explanation as one way to hold AI systems accountable. Many frameworks for AI regulation and best practices have since emerged. \nIn this conversation\, Finale and Mason return to the question of accountability and regulation for AI: What are the options for regulating AI systems in real-world settings? What are the advantages of ex-ante and ex-post monitoring? What roles should different methods of accountability play? How do we strategically use each one? \nThey will reflect on how their views have evolved and consider some ways forward. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/accounting-for-ai-a-comparison-of-methods-berkman-klein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T130000
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SUMMARY:Lessons from the First Internet Ages Symposium | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:What is the future of the Internet? Thirty years after the creation of the first web page\, what have we learned about the impact of the Internet on communication\, connection\, and democracy? \nJoin the Knight Foundation for Lessons from the First Internet Ages\, a virtual symposium that will explore and evaluate what key figures in the development of the Internet and online communities have learned from their experiences. Curated by two leading experts on Internet law\, these conversations will feature contributions from pivotal Internet figures\, technologists\, and cyber scholars. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/lessons-from-the-first-internet-ages-symposium-knight-foundation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T110000
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SUMMARY:The Role of Legal Strategy in Platform Research | NetGain Partnership
DESCRIPTION:When platform researchers undertake new projects\, it is crucial to assess legal risks. Yet the legal constraints on platform research are often ambiguous. This webinar will explore what legal resources platform researchers need\, as well as how to make decisions to reach research objectives. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-role-of-legal-strategy-in-platform-research-netgain-partnership/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T123000
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SUMMARY:Applied Algorithmic Ethics | Marquette University
DESCRIPTION:As algorithms increasingly automate decision-making processes\, filter information flows\, and mediate our social interactions\, ethical concerns immediately follow. Questions of fairness\, accountability\, and transparency permeate the growing set of concerns around the social and ethical implications of algorithms. As a growing community of scholars grapples with the ethics of algorithms\, how can their findings be applied by technologists engaged in machine learning and the cutting edge of AI development in order to minimize unintended bias and the risk of harm? Put simply\, how can businesses apply algorithmic ethics? \nThe 2021 Marquette Ethics of Big Data Symposium brings together some of the leading voices on applied algorithmic ethics to discuss the latest efforts to engage with these difficult challenges. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/applied-algorithmic-ethics-marquette-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T180000
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SUMMARY:Global News & Technology Leadership in Challenging Times | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:The challenges facing global news-industry leaders have seldom been as great as today. Economic disruption\, technology transformation and a frontal assault on an independent free press as ‘enemies of the people’ are creating unprecedented headwinds for news leaders. How do they lead in such tumultuous times? And where do they see opportunities for success beyond the current uncertainty? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/global-news-technology-leadership-in-challenging-times-shorenstein-center/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T140000
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SUMMARY:Addressing Health Misinformation Through Community | Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Across the country\, libraries\, educators and civil society generally are leading in playing vital roles in addressing health misinformation in communities. We look forward to hearing insights from experts in the field on how we can best mitigate the impacts of misinformation and empower individuals to seek factual information. \nJoin Knight Foundation and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) on Tuesday\, November 9 for Addressing Health Misinformation Through Community\, a special gathering of library\, civic\, and philanthropic leaders. The U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy will hold a discussion on community-based solutions for addressing health misinformation. Building on the release of Confronting Health Misinformation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment\, VADM Murthy is announcing the second installment of his office’s efforts to combat health misinformation and disinformation with the launch of a community toolkit for addressing health misinformation. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/addressing-health-misinformation-through-community-knight-foundation/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211110T120000
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SUMMARY:Can Society Control Big Tech? Truth and Trust | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:This conversation is off the record. Please use this registration form if you wish to join us online. Please note that our speaker will be presenting in person at Harvard Kennedy School in Rubenstein 414AB (ELLWOOD DEMOCRACY LAB). Anyone with a Harvard ID is invited to join us on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/can-society-control-big-tech-truth-and-trust-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T130000
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SUMMARY:"Beyond “Technological Exception”: Emerging Debates in Cuban Independent Journalism" | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:About the Speaker \nSara García Santamaría is an Associate Professor at Universitat Jaume I and Universitat Blanquerna – Ramon Llull in Spain. She holds a Doctorate in Journalism Studies from the University of Sheffield (UK)\, where her research explored how the Cuban state-run media constructs the role of the people in public debate. Having completed her Ph.D.\, García Santamaría became a research fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication\, University of Pennsylvania\, in 2018\, leading a Joint Digital Rights and Internet Freedom Research & Advocacy Project. Her doctoral and postdoctoral work emphasizes the importance of overcoming binary discourses and accounting for the social complexity of a changing media environment in Cuba. CARGC Special Report “Beyond “Technological Exception”: Emerging Debates in Cuban Independent Journalism” represents a continuation of her work\, particularly in light of the shifting and volatile media environment that Cubans and Cuban journalists are currently experiencing. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/beyond-technological-exception-emerging-debates-in-cuban-independent-journalism-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T140000
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SUMMARY:Diversity and Inequality in Social Networks | Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:Online social networks often mirror inequality in real-world networks\, from historical prejudice\, economic or social factors. Such disparities are often picked up and amplified by algorithms that leverage social data for the purpose of providing recommendations\, diffusing information\, or forming groups. In this talk\, we’ll discuss possible explanations for algorithmic bias in social networks\, specifically in (i) recommendation algorithms and (ii) the influence maximization problem. Using the preferential attachment model with unequal communities\, we’ll characterize the relationship between homophily\, network centrality\, and bias through the power-law degree distributions of the nodes\, and study the conditions in which diversity interventions can actually yield more efficient and equitable outcomes. In addition\, we’ll see that recommendations which use the neighborhood of individuals may hinder the incoming connections of minority groups\, while algorithms that use centrality-based measures in diffusing information may leave minorities out of the loop. In addition\, we’ll discuss a set of heuristics that leverage the network structure to maximize the diffusion of a message while not creating disparate impact among participants based on sensitive demographics like gender or race. To wrap up\, I’ll discuss research outputs from the Mechanism Design for Social Good initiative\, in which I have been serving as a co-organizer for the last two years. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/diversity-and-inequality-in-social-networks-network-science-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T180000
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SUMMARY:The 2021 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press: Maria Ressa | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, November 16th at 6:00 pm ET in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum\, this year’s Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press will be delivered by Maria Ressa\, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner\, co-founder and CEO of Rappler.com\, Fall 2021 Shorenstein Center Fellow\, and Center for Public Leadership Hauser Leader. Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy Director Nancy Gibbs will moderate a conversation with Maria after her remarks. \nA journalist in Asia for 35 years\, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler.com\, the top digital-only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rappler’s CEO and president\, Maria has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. \nMaria was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous fights to uphold freedom of expression. She was also Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year\, and has received numerous other awards and recognition for her journalism and fearlessness in the face of efforts to silence her. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-2021-salant-lecture-on-freedom-of-the-press-maria-ressa-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T123000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the Limits: Provocative and Extreme Speech | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Democracies are struggling to balance freedom of expression with equality for the weak as well as accountability for harmful speech. There is growing alarm at how internet giants distort the marketplace of ideas\, undermine human dignity and derail truth-seeking — but little consensus on what should be done. Can we still have faith in the liberal axiom that the answer to bad speech is more speech? Or will more regulation help? Our virtual roundtable features Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson and media anthropologist Sahana Udupa\, who studies digital hate\, in conversation with media scholar Cherian George. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/rethinking-the-limits-provocative-and-extreme-speech-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Elihu Katz Colloquium: Is an "ethical" internet possible? | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and partial to its initial conceit yet this history is often forgotten and therefore remains unconnected to the current violence that this life changing technology has enabled around the world.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nMoya Bailey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice and she is interested in how race\, gender\, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects\, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press\, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press\, 2021).\n\n[…]\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/elihu-katz-colloquium-is-an-ethical-internet-possible-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T153000
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SUMMARY:MIC Panel Event: Imagining a New Social Contract for Media | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION:Expanding positive freedoms that enable greater opportunities for communication—as opposed to emphasizing only negative freedoms that protect us from harm—is foundational to reforming our media system so that it serves everyone. Even as concerns about social harms currently dominate contemporary policy discussions\, it is important to articulate collective needs and the political imaginary necessary for creating a more democratic system. This panel of leading international law and policy scholars features the authors of new books and a new report that all base arguments on positive freedoms\, making the case that whether we are talking about saving local journalism\, expanding access to broadband\, or redesigning our public media\, maximizing positive freedoms is essential for creating the information and communication infrastructures that democratic society requires. \n[…]\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/mic-panel-event-imagining-a-new-social-contract-for-media-annenberg-school-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Factual Corrections and Misinformation During the 2020 U.S. Election: Evidence from Panel Experiments |  Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:We measure the immediate and medium-term effects of 21 highly-trafficked pieces of misinformation and fact-checks during the 2020 U.S. election with eight panel experiments (N = 17\,681). Exposure to misinformation increased false beliefs by an average of 4.3 points on a 100-point belief certainty scale. Exposure to fact-checks more than corrected this effect\, decreasing false beliefs by 10.5 points. The effects of fact-checks persisted at 66% of the immediate effect one week after exposure\, and at 50% after more than two weeks. We estimate minuscule effects of misinformation and fact-checks on evaluations of political figures and groups. Fact-checks of party-congenial false claims were more effective among Democrats than Republicans. We examine this asymmetry with data provided to us by the fact-checking organization PolitiFact. We document robust heterogeneities by personality type and cognitive style\, which further investigation suggests may be related to time spent reading fact-checks. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/factual-corrections-and-misinformation-during-the-2020-u-s-election-evidence-from-panel-experiments-network-science-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211129T120000
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SUMMARY:Gender\, Political Persuasion\, and Social Media: A Field Experiment During the 2020 Democratic Primary | Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:Research indicates women have less influence than men in a variety of professional settings\, including politics. We conducted a field experiment on a social media platform where Democrats were randomly assigned female or male avatar before discussing their preferred candidate for the 2020 presidential primary election. By measuring changes in people’s preferences before and after they are exposed to these avatars\, we examine how gender stereotypes and gendered language contribute to political persuasion. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/gender-political-persuasion-and-social-media-a-field-experiment-during-the-2020-democratic-primary-network-science-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T150000
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SUMMARY:The Interplay of Technology\, Ethics\, and Policy | Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be hybrid in-person and via Zoom. Register in advance here for this meeting using your institutional email address. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nTechnology is often designed and deployed without critical reflection of the values that it embodies.  Value trade-offs—between security and privacy\, free speech and dignity\, autonomy and human agency\, and different conceptions of fairness—abound in many technologies that are now achieving great scale in commonly used tech platforms.  The decisions made by the people inside the companies deploying those technologies impose their value choices upon millions of users\, often with negative externalities that are now on full display. \nIn our new book\, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot\, we provide a multidisciplinary view—the perspectives of a philosopher\, a political scientist\, and a computer scientist\, respectively—to disentangle the systematic drivers that we believe have led to the ethical reckoning that Big Tech is now facing. \n[…]‍ \n‍ \n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-interplay-of-technology-ethics-and-policy-network-science-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T170000
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SUMMARY:Center for Media at Risk Symposium: Image-Based Abuse | Annenberg
DESCRIPTION:Image-based abuse is a public health crisis that silences marginalized groups and degrades public discourse. Ranging across the COVID-19 pandemic\, political campaigns and social network reform\, image-based abuse finds its way into nearly every pressing public issue today. This symposium will identify patterning in its occurrence\, strategize research agendas for its clarification and develop policy recommendations and best practices for its resistance and prevention. Organized by the Center for Media at Risk at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication in partnership with the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative\, it will take place on Friday\, December 3\, 2021\, with a keynote event occurring the evening of Thursday\, December 2. Its objective is to provide a space for researchers\, policymakers and victim-activists from different geographical contexts to meet\, share findings and develop collaborative agendas. The symposium will also include a digital self-care workshop that will provide tailored advice for safely researching digital abuse. \n[…]\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/center-for-media-at-risk-symposium-image-based-abuse-annenberg/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:How to address extremism among veterans | The Brookings Institution
DESCRIPTION:The mob assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6\, 2021 opened a new chapter in domestic terrorism. For the first time in our nation’s history\, America experienced its first non-peaceful post-election transfer of power. To date\, more than 660 arrests have been made\, and more than 12% of those arrested were veterans of the U.S. military. \nThe pace\, scope\, and scale of domestic violent extremism has been increasing\, and national security experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the efforts of such groups to recruit active-duty military and veterans to their ranks for the purposes of committing violence and overthrowing the government of the United States. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/how-to-address-extremism-among-veterans-the-brookings-institution/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:The True Costs of Misinformation | Network Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:It all feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents\, white supremacists\, conspiracists\, snake oil salesmen\, political operatives\, white academics\, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers have in common? The groups have collided in a centrifuge of chaos online\, where the tactics they use to hide their identities and manipulate audiences are more prevalent than ever. Social media companies are trying to patch the holes in a failing sociotechnical systems\, where the problems their products have created are now shouldered by journalists\, universities\, and health professionals\, just to name a few. What can be done to restore moral and technical order in a time of pandemonium? \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-true-costs-of-misinformation-network-science-institute/
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