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Elihu Katz Colloquium: Lauren Feldman (Ph.D. ’08), Rutgers University

Hybrid Annenberg Room 500 and on Zoom

Lauren Feldman is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. Her current research emphasizes three primary areas of interest: climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change. Feldman’s research has been published in more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as in several edited […]

Web3 is Going Just Where? A fireside chat with Molly White and Jonathan Zittrain

In the wake of the FTX collapse, what impact have cryptocurrencies had on the world and what can we learn from them about the next generation of the internet we want to build? Join Molly White of Web3 is Going Just Great fame and internet and society professor Jonathan Zittrain for a wide-ranging fireside chat […]

GWU IDDP: Nina Hall in Conversation with Dave Karpf

George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

On Thursday, February 16 at 11am ET Dave Karpf will be in conversation with Nina Hall about her recent book Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era. In her book Nina does what no other International Relations scholar has done before, research the power and spread of digital advocacy organizations. Dave and Nina will discuss her investigation of how […]

EU Disinfo Lab: A CERN for the Information Environment

Alicia Wanless, Director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will present during this EU DisinfoLab webinar her study, co-written with Jacob N. Shapiro, professor at Princeton University: “A CERN Model for Studying the Information Environment”. Their idea? Create the equivalent of a European Center for Nuclear Research, […]

Call for Proposals | European Media and Information Fund

The European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) opened three calls for proposals for projects in Europe aiming to fight disinformation on 27 January 2023. EMIF will distribute up to €4,800,000 across three areas of interventions: Investigations into Disinformation Dynamics Research for a Transparent and Resilient Information Ecosystem Media and Information Literacy for Societal Resilience These […]

AI & Social Manipulation | Northeastern University Network Science Institute

Northeastern University Boston, MA, United States

Networks have dramatically changed the way we experience the world. Information access and broadcasting have been revolutionized. The Internet, the Web, and online platforms bring us together: our society is experiencing the effects, both positive and negative, of ubiquitous and unparalleled connectivity. In this talk, I will overview my decade-long journey into understanding the implications […]

Co-Opting AI: Recruiting | NYU Institute for Public Knowledge

Virtual

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the 370 Jay Project, and the NYU Tandon Department of Technology, Culture and Society invite you to a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This event will examine how AI intersects with the profession of recruiting and with gaining access to the labor market. It will take a connect […]

GWU: Anthroencryption: Strategies for Protecting the World’s Vulnerable People

Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E St. NW, Washington, DC, DC, United States

Governments, humanitarian organizations and private contractors are capturing, storing and sharing an ever increasing volume of identity data, much of it pertaining to individuals such as refugees, whistleblowers and other vulnerable people who may never interact directly with the databases where their data is stored. While many countries have enacted legislation to establish baseline safety […]

Essentially Unprotected: Health Data and the Surveillance of Essential Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Virtual

The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the lives of essential workers in America, shifting the conditions, timing, equipment, and spatial practices of their work, and expanding surveillance inside the workplace. And while employers collected increasing amounts of data about workers’ health, little of it was shared with workers themselves. The result was an information vacuum that […]