BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MediaWell - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MediaWell X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MediaWell REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20220313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20221106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220227 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220203T211050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T213408Z UID:71265-1645747200-1645919999@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Virtual Colloquium on Race\, Racism\, and American Media | Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute DESCRIPTION:This event will explore historic and contemporary racial discrimination in all modalities of modern media. \nRegister Here \nGeorgetown University Racial Justice Institute \nThe University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One research institution and an EEO/AA institution \n\n  URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/virtual-colloquium-on-race-racism-and-american-media-february-25-2022/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220203T215219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T215219Z UID:71288-1645707600-1645711200@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:CARGC Colloquium: James Yékú\, University of Kansas | Annenberg School for Communication DESCRIPTION:“Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship” \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT ON ZOOM \nAbout the Talk\nIts ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk\, James Yékú will track the implications of this ban in the context of what he has called cultural netizenship\, the organizing rubric for visual articulations of internet citizenship that often manifests through the performance of popular culture in an ontologically visual social web. Unlike the normative signals of netizenship as a performance of citizenship and participatory politics online\, cultural netizenship evokes the deployment of visual and popular culture on social media to push back against the boundaries of hegemonic culture. Based on social media-enabled cultural productions that underpin meme culture as the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and\, especially\, political commentary on digital media\, cultural netizenship as a reiteration of the generative materialism of African popular arts\, Yékú will argue\, is one notable and subversive practice in a complex system of relations between an analog state in Nigeria and digital subjects. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cargc-colloquium-james-yeku-university-of-kansas-annenberg-school-for-communication/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211228T165631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211228T171419Z UID:70689-1645707600-1645711200@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication DESCRIPTION:Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk\, James Yékú will track the implications of this ban in the context of what he has called cultural netizenship\, the organizing rubric for visual articulations of internet citizenship that often manifests through the performance of popular culture in an ontologically visual social web. Unlike the normative signals of netizenship as a performance of citizenship and participatory politics online\, cultural netizenship evokes the deployment of visual and popular culture on social media to push back against the boundaries of hegemonic culture. Based on social media-enabled cultural productions that underpin meme culture as the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and\, especially\, political commentary on digital media\, cultural netizenship as a reiteration of the generative materialism of African popular arts\, Yékú will argue\, is one notable and subversive practice in a complex system of relations between an analog state in Nigeria and digital subjects. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nigerias-twitter-ban-and-the-logic-of-cultural-netizenship-annenberg-school-for-communication/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T000000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220131T211539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T214405Z UID:71172-1645488000-1645660800@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Knight Media Forum 2022 | Knight Foundation DESCRIPTION:On Feb. 22-24\, join us virtually for the 15th Annual Knight Media Forum (KMF)\, where we will examine current trends impacting our democracy. Top thought leaders in philanthropy\, journalism\, education\, tech and policy will share their insights and answer your questions about the hot topics across communities and the nation. \n\nKMF is the premiere event for leaders across these sectors to put forward new ideas and exchange diverse perspectives. At year 15 and looking forward\, Knight Media Forum provides a respected platform to discuss relevant trends affecting American society now and in the future. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/knight-media-forum-2022-knight-foundation/ CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T183000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220203T211135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T214119Z UID:71270-1644512400-1644517800@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Eric Freedman\, “Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans” | MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\nVideo game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided a common architecture for digital content creation across what were once distinct media verticals—film\, television\, video games and other immersive and interactive media forms that can leverage real-time 3D visualization. Game engines are the building blocks for efficient real-time visualization\, and they signal quite forcefully the colonizing influence of programming. Video game engines are powering our visual futures\, and engine developers that include Unity Technologies and Epic Games are rapidly iterating their products to tackle new markets\, where data and visuality continue to converge. This analysis\, which draws from software studies and studies of visual culture\, examines a tool that is fairly new to the Epic Games arsenal—the in-development MetaHuman Creator that is part of Epic’s proprietary Unreal Engine. MetaHuman creation is a fluid of process\, and the speedy transformation of character rigs and other non-binary attributes highlights the potential queerness or openness of data. Yet the ongoing push toward (hyper)realism in commercial media has birthed a visual economy which is supported by an industrial apparatus that privileges mastery over the tools of production\, and where bodies and politics are often cleaved in the design process. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/eric-freedman-non-binary-binaries-and-unreal-metahumans-mit-graduate-program-in-comparative-media-studies/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T120000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220131T214522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T220408Z UID:71180-1644408000-1644408000@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Hacking Online Virality | Shorenstein Center DESCRIPTION:As social media become major channels for the diffusion of news and information\, it becomes critical to understand how the complex interplay between cognitive\, social\, and algorithmic biases triggered by our reliance on online social networks makes us vulnerable to manipulation and disinformation. This talk overviews ongoing network analytics\, modeling\, and machine learning efforts to study the viral spread of misinformation and to develop tools for countering the online manipulation of opinions. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/hacking-online-virality-shorenstein-center/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220127T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220127T180000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220120T220400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T220400Z UID:70971-1643302800-1643306400@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Can Humor Help Us Fight Misinformation About Science? | Northwest Science Writers Association DESCRIPTION:What’s the best way to fight the spread of misinformation? When someone shares misleading facts about vaccines or climate change on Twitter\, should we be furious — or should we try to be funny? \nRecent research suggests that humor has an important role in countering misinformation about science. One study found that scientists are perceived as more likable\, but no less credible\, when they use humor to communicate their ideas. \nHow does it work? And what does it mean for journalists and science communicators? To find out\, please join us on Thursday\, January 27 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. Pacific for a lively discussion with experts from academia\, journalism\, and comedy writing. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/panel-discussion-can-humor-help-us-fight-misinformation-about-science-northwest-science-writers-association/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T123000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220121T171011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T174005Z UID:70998-1643281200-1643286600@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism Tickets\, Thu\, 27 Jan 2022 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism\n\nJoin us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices book launch and speaker series!\n\nAbout this event\n\nBringing together contributors of the book\, this speaker series explores how feminists employ a variety of online platforms\, practices\, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual\, consumerist\, white feminism in favor of collective\, tangible action.\n\nThis session approaches to exploring networking feminisms.\n\n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/speaker-series-session-1-conceptual-frameworks-for-networked-feminism-tickets-thu-27-jan-2022-at-1100-am-eventbrite/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220125T130000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20220121T170804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T172949Z UID:70989-1643112000-1643115600@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:FSI | Cyber - Inclusive Content Moderation Is Innovative Content Moderation DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, January 25 from 12 PM – 1 PM PT for “Inclusive Content Moderation Is Innovative Content Moderation” featuring Aerica Shimizu Banks\, founder of Shiso in conversation with Julie Owono\, executive director of the Content Policy and Society Lab. This weekly seminar series is jointly organized by the Cyber Policy Center’s Program on Democracy and the Internet and the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. \nContent moderation policies are perhaps the most scrutinized aspects of online platform operations\, and are implicated in the most urgent current and political events globally. And yet\, companies struggle to meet the moment\, in part because of historical ignorance of a foundational component to adaptive policies: inclusion and accessibility. In creating the Beyond The Statement: Tech Framework for Color Of Change\, Aerica Shimizu Banks illuminated a pathway to consistent and nimble innovation through  the “Curb-Cut Effect” of inclusive practices and policies. This presentation will explore how she found\, through developing this framework\, that the more inclusive a policy\, the more innovative possibilities become for content moderation. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/fsi-cyber-inclusive-content-moderation-is-innovative-content-moderation/ CATEGORIES:Talk ORGANIZER;CN="Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University":MAILTO:cyber-center@stanford.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T110000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211213T233422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T234117Z UID:70482-1642759200-1642762800@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Combating Health-Related Misinformation and Disinformation | University of Minnesota School of Public Health DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that health-related misinformation and disinformation can dangerously undermine the response to a public health crisis. Misleading information\, intentional or not\, has a myriad of effects\, including reduced trust in public health responders\, increased belief in false medical cures\, and politicization of public health measures. The spread of these falsehoods has led to more infections\, deaths\, disruption\, and disorganization of the effort to combat the pandemic\, and it is likely these problems will persist in future public health emergencies. In this talk\, Dr. Sell will describe ways to understand the how and why misinformation infiltrates our public discourse and potential paths forward in combating health-related misinformation and disinformation. \nFree and Open to the Public \nThe lecture honors the memory of Carl J. Martinson\, MD\, who founded the Minnetonka Hospital\, The Martinson Clinic\, and who actively promulgated good health habits as the way to a productive\, long\, happy life. \n[…]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta \n\n #post-x \n Event footer \n #tribe-events-footer \n\n  URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/combating-health-related-misinformation-and-disinformation-university-of-minnesota-school-of-public-health/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T133000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211228T165538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211228T172248Z UID:70690-1642595400-1642599000@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Book Talk: Discriminating Data: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Sarah Banet-Weiser | Annenberg DESCRIPTION:In Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \nChun\, who has a background in systems design engineering as well as media studies and cultural theory\, explains that although machine learning algorithms may not officially include race as a category\, they embed whiteness as a default. Facial recognition technology\, for example\, relies on the faces of Hollywood celebrities and university undergraduates—groups not famous for their diversity. Homophily emerged as a concept to describe white U.S. resident attitudes to living in biracial yet segregated public housing. Predictive policing technology deploys models trained on studies of predominantly underserved neighborhoods. Trained on selected and often discriminatory or dirty data\, these algorithms are only validated if they mirror this data. \n[…]\n\n\n  URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/book-talk-discriminating-data-wendy-hui-kyong-chun-in-conversation-with-sarah-banet-weiser-annenberg/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T113000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211228T172416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211228T173358Z UID:70697-1641463200-1641468600@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:The January 6 insurrection: One year later | The Brookings Institution DESCRIPTION:Nearly one year ago\, a violent mob broke into the United States Capitol in an effort to halt the certification of the electoral vote and overturn the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump. The insurrection was\, thankfully\, unsuccessful. But its echoes continue to reverberate today: Many in the Republican Party attempt to deny\, minimize\, or normalize the legacy of the attempted coup\, while investigators in both the Justice Department and Congress continue to dig into exactly what happened that day. \nOn January 6\, 2022\, an expert panel will reflect on the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot and discuss its lasting effects. What have Americans learned over the last year about the causes of the riot and the people who attended and engineered it? How have government institutions responded—or failed to respond—to the violence? And how should we understand what January 6 means for the health of American democracy going forward? \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-january-6-insurrection-one-year-later-the-brookings-institution/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220108 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211209T185207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211228T173715Z UID:70366-1641427200-1641599999@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:The Capitol Coup One Year Later: How Research can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy | GWU Institute for Data\, Democracy\, and Politics DESCRIPTION:The George Washington University’s Institute for Data\, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) and The University of North Carolina’s Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life (CITAP) invite you to join them for The Capitol Coup One Year Later: How Research Can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy\, a two day conference exploring key questions surrounding January 6\, 2021. \nDay One features a keynote talk from Emily Van Duyn on the theme of “How does our research help us understand what happened on January 6?” \nDr. Emily Van Duyn is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to Illinois\, Van Duyn earned her PhD in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with the Program on Democracy and the Internet. Her research explores why people talk (or do not talk) about politics and the role of digital media in facilitating a space for community and political discourse. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-capitol-coup-one-year-later-how-research-can-assess-and-counter-threats-to-democracy/ LOCATION:George Washington Univeristy\, Washington D.C\, District of Columbia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T163000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211203T154800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211203T162334Z UID:70246-1639580400-1639585800@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Reducing Harm on Social Media: Research & Design Ideas | NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics DESCRIPTION:When social media platforms first launched nearly two decades ago\, they were seen as a force for good – a way to connect with family and friends\, learn and explore new ideas\, and engage with social and political movements. Yet\, as the Facebook Papers and other research have documented\, these same platforms have become vectors of misinformation\, hate speech\, and polarization. \nWith attention around social media’s impact on society at an all-time high\, this event gathers researchers and practitioners from across the academic\, policy\, and tech communities to discuss various approaches and interventions to make social media a safer and more civil place. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/reducing-harm-on-social-media-research-design-ideas-nyus-center-for-social-media-and-politics/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T120000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211215T143433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T143433Z UID:70510-1639566000-1639569600@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States\, Brazil\, and France | Center for Democracy & Technology DESCRIPTION:A newly released report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States\, Brazil\, and France – published by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)\, explores recent case studies of election disinformation in the U.S.\, Brazil\, and France. It also examines tactics for mitigating the problem\, including interventions by governments\, platforms\, and civil society. \nOn December 15\, from 11 am-12 pm ET\, CDT and KAS will host a webinar event to introduce the report and its findings. Three of the report’s authors—one from each country—and a leading researcher on online disinformation will participate in a panel discussion\, followed by Q&A. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/a-lie-can-travel-election-disinformation-in-the-united-states-brazil-and-france-center-for-democracy-technology/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T130000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211203T153734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211210T220448Z UID:70255-1639483200-1639486800@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s | Berkman Klein Center DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw on research from “Wearing Many Hats\,” a forthcoming Data & Society report authored by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman. Dr. Coleman describes her talk as follows: \nOur report examines the transformative period in which many hackers moved from a vilified underground subculture into a domain of respected professionalism\, playing a privileged role in establishing contemporary cybersecurity protocols and agendas. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/security-by-spectacle-the-invention-of-gray-hat-hacking-the-fight-against-microsoft-in-the-1990s-berkman-klein-center/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T150000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211208T204258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T204258Z UID:70344-1639144800-1639148400@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Platform Governance: Trust and Transparency | Yale Law School Information Society Project DESCRIPTION:Civil society and government stakeholders have very low trust in industry\, based on repeated violations of the latter’s own promises. Concurrently\, information asymmetry is an initial hurdle to both studying and proposing solutions for platform governance. However\, as with everything in this space\, the answer is rarely as simple as it may seem at first glance. Transparency\, a necessary first step\, may end up enabling bad actors\, may inadvertently compromise privacy\, and ultimately can become a substitute for meaningful policy change. Do systems need to be fully rebuilt in order to restore a sense of balance\, or is that balance a red herring? Is the solution policy\, tech\, both\, neither? URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/platform-governance-trust-and-transparency-yale-law-school-information-society-project/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T041415Z UID:70169-1639062000-1639065600@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:From COVID-19 to culture wars: The growing hostility of education politics | The Brookings Institution DESCRIPTION:For education policymakers\, the last two years have been among the most tumultuous and challenging in U.S. history. Issue after issue has stirred controversy\, including COVID-induced school closures\, mask and vaccine mandates\, critical race theory\, and transgender students’ rights. Local school board meetings have been stages for many conflicts. Board members are confronting angry protestors at the same time they confront complex questions about mitigating the harms of the pandemic on students and protecting public health. Recently\, in Virginia\, we saw the potential for education politics to shape a high-profile\, statewide election. \nOn December 9\, the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings will host an expert discussion on the politics of education. Panelists will discuss recent events and what they mean for students\, schools\, and society\, as well as how education might factor into the 2022 elections. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/from-covid-19-to-culture-wars-the-growing-hostility-of-education-politics/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T140000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T170041Z UID:70171-1639054800-1639058400@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty | Annenberg School for Communication DESCRIPTION:Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras\, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting\, indexing\, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data\, decide what is most important\, or even to train our attention on it long enough to make sense of it. \nIn Abundance\, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before\, focusing on the interpretations\, emotions\, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. \n[…]\n\n\n\n  URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/abundance-on-the-experience-of-living-in-a-world-of-information-plenty-annenberg-school-for-communication/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T123000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T040603Z UID:70170-1638961200-1638966600@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Technology\, inequality\, and democracy | The Brookings Institution DESCRIPTION:Advances in digital technologies and artificial intelligence hold great promise to boost economic prosperity. But as these technologies transform nearly every aspect of business and work\, they are reshaping growth and distributional dynamics in ways that can increase economic inequality. Indeed\, inequality has been rising in many countries\, notably in the United States. Rising inequality and related disparities and anxieties have been stoking social discontent and are a major driver of the increased popular disaffection and political polarization that are so evident today. \nIn what ways is today’s technological transformation contributing to higher inequality within economies? What are the implications of the new technologies for global inequality and economic convergence between economies? What are the risks associated with rising inequality\, including for democratic governance? How can the promise of the digital age be harnessed to achieve more inclusive economic prosperity and strengthen democratic societies? What new challenges arise for public policy? \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/technology-inequality-and-democracy-the-brookings-institution/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T110000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T165400Z UID:70173-1638874800-1638874800@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:The Post-Soviet Press: A Long Road to Freedom | Shorenstein Center DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago this December\, the Soviet Union broke up\, creating 15 new countries and high expectations that many of them would embrace democracy — including guarantees of freedom of the press. Thirty years on\, only a handful of the post-Soviet states have met expectations for free\, independent media. Several others maintain strict\, Soviet-style controls on information\, and press freedoms continue to decline in Russia\, Belarus and elsewhere. But the struggle goes on\, aided by western support. We’ll talk with people at the forefront of the struggle in Ukraine and Moldova\, two countries where western support remains crucial for independent media and investigative journalism. \nJoin us for a conversation with Corina Cepoi\, Chief of Party\, Project Director and Country Director at Internews in Moldova and Kyrgyzstan\, and Oleg Khomenok\, member of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) Board of Directors\, International Fact-Checking Network expert\, and Senior Media Advisor at Internews Network\, moderated by Ann Cooper\, CBS Professor Emerita Of Professional Practice\, Columbia University\, and Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein Fellow. \n[…] URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-post-soviet-press-a-long-road-to-freedom-shorenstein-center/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T000000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T165722Z UID:70176-1638748800-1638748800@mediawell.ssrc.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T110000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T040030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T040402Z UID:70177-1638525600-1638529200@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T160000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T041906Z UID:70172-1638464400-1638547200@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T150000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T035739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T041329Z UID:70168-1638370800-1638370800@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211129T120000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211130T041504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T042143Z UID:70186-1638187200-1638187200@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T120000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211007T014042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T014746Z UID:69352-1637582400-1637582400@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T153000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211101T152000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T153432Z UID:69808-1637546400-1637595000@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T120000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211101T151940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T153725Z UID:69805-1637323200-1637323200@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260928T115537 CREATED:20211101T151917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T154227Z UID:69806-1637152200-1637155800@mediawell.ssrc.org 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 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR