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SUMMARY:First Amendment Disrupted? The State of Freedom of Expression in the US | Gallup
DESCRIPTION:“Join Gallup and the John S. and James. L Knight Foundation for a discussion on the future of the freedom of expression in the U.S. and the state of free speech during the turbulent present. Rapid changes in our society are putting new pressures on First Amendment freedoms. At the same time\, free expression and civil discourse are more important than ever. \nKnight Foundation’s Sam Gill\, senior vice president and chief program officer\, will share relevant findings and observations from recent research on free speech on college campuses conducted with Gallup — a glimpse into how an emerging generation thinks about this bedrock set of rights. \nThe event will also include insights by PEN America and a panel moderated by Sanford Ungar of the Georgetown Free Speech Project\, featuring Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute\, Emily Chamlee-Wright of the Institute for Humane Studies and Ronald Crutcher of the University of Richmond. Audience members will be given the opportunity to ask questions of speakers and panelists. \nGallup and Knight Foundation thank our sponsors PEN America\, the Free Speech Project and the American Council on Education.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/first-amendment-disrupted-the-state-of-freedom-of-expression-in-the-us-gallup/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T190000
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SUMMARY:The Shift: Public Space | Institute for Public Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:“NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge\, Civic Signals\, The Social Science Research Council\, and The Knight Foundation invite you to a discussion on public spaces in the series on “The Shift\,” featuring Eric Klinenberg\, Toni Griffin\, Chelina Odbert\, Tony Ageh\, Eli Pariser\, and Mona Sloane. In the first episode\, this series will examine how we develop digital forms of public space as much of our social life moves online\, and how this shifts our sense of community. What is the role of public space in society? What can public space do (and not do)? What do we lose when we lose physical public space\, and how do people make up for that in the digital realm? The discussion will address these questions by exploring how vital public spaces are enacted virtually – such as the library\, the park\, the street -\, looking at what makes these spaces civically useful in both their physical and their digital form\, and asking what we can and must learn from this for a post-COVID-19 world.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-shift-public-space-institute-for-public-knowledge/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T130000
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SUMMARY:The Crisis in Local News | The Aspen Institute
DESCRIPTION:“Local news\, in crisis before the pandemic\, is now facing a cataclysm. Advertising has plummeted. Print has no market. And consolidation has driven record cuts. At stake is not just jobs\, but the access to critical trustworthy information for millions of Americans — just when they need it most. In this program\, co-hosted with the Knight Foundation\, we’ll examine potential solutions to serve a country in dire need of independent news. \nWe will be joined by: \n\nElizabeth Green\, Co-founder & CEO\, Chalkbeat\nJiquanda Johnson\, Founder & Publisher\, Flint Beat\nWendi C. Thomas\, Editor\, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism\nSteven Waldman\, President & Co-founder\, Report for America\nVivian Schiller\, Executive Director\, Aspen Digital”\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-crisis-in-local-news-the-aspen-institute/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T130000
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SUMMARY:Cyber Policy Center Online Series | National AI Strategies and Human Rights: New Urgency in the Era of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:“National AI Strategies and Human Rights: New Urgency in the Era of COVID-19\, takes place Wednesday\, May 6th\, at 10am PST with Eileen Donahoe\, the Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi) at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and Megan Metzger\, Associate Director for Research\, also at GDPi. Joining them will be Mark Latonero\, Senior Researcher at Data & Society\, Richard Wingfield\, from Global Partners Digital\, and Gallit Dobner\, Director of the Centre for International Digital Policy at Global Affairs Canada. The session will be moderated by Kelly Born\, Executive Director of the Cyber Policy Center. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe seminar will focus on the recently published report\, National Artificial Intelligence Strategies and Human Rights: A Review\, produced by the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford and Global Partners Digital – and will also provide an opportunity to look at how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting human rights and digital technology work more generally. \nWe will also be jointly hosting a webinar with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies on May 8th at 1pm PST\, with experts from around the center and institute discussing emerging research on Covid-19\, and the implications to future cyber policies\, as well as the upcoming elections. More information on the May 8th event\, can be found here. ”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cyber-policy-center-online-series-national-ai-strategies-and-human-rights-new-urgency-in-the-era-of-covid-19/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T140000
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SUMMARY:Vision: Flattening the infodemic curve with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble | The Knight Foundation
DESCRIPTION:“The COVID-19 crisis has generated a wave of misinformation that is undermining trust in the media and government institutions. Join us live as Sam Gill speaks with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble who is an Associate Professor at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/vision-flattening-the-infodemic-curve-with-dr-safiya-umoja-noble-the-knight-foundation/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T160000
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SUMMARY:Cyber and Covid-19 | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
DESCRIPTION:“COVID-19 is having a profound impact on our online systems – exposing both the essential role they can and do play in our modern society\, and the risks and vulnerabilities they represent. Substantial research is emerging on this topic\, and the implications of that research  will have important consequences for both medium (e.g.\, 2020 elections) and long-term cyber policies. \nWelcome Remarks: Mike McFaul \n\nIntroduction to CPC and the center’s work on COVID from moderator Kelly Born\nAlex Stamos of the Internet Observatory will discuss their work examining shifting narratives about coronavirus from Chinese and Russian State Media\, early insights into covid misinformation in other countries (e.g.\, Nigeria)\, and how tech companies are responding; as well as how Zoom and other platforms have been working to adapt policies and practices to meet growing demands\, and risks.\nNate Persily at PDI will discuss the challenges of running the elections in the current environment\, including implications for state necessary changes to state policies and practices.\nEileen Donahoe at GDPI will discuss geopolitical threats to the international human rights law framework due to ineffective response to COVID by democratic govs; cite risks to 5 specific substantive civil/political rights; and recommend that democratic govs apply international human rights process principles in COVID-19 context.  [I will use ~2 slides  -only  if others use slides]\nMarietje Schaake will discuss human-rights challenges (to privacy\, freedom of association\, and freedom of expression) that have arisen with various applications of AI in COVID-19 context – e.g.\,contact tracking and content moderation; as well as emerging criteria for policymakers to consider when deploying tracing and related technologies.\nAndy Grotto from GTG will discuss recent work on How to Report Responsibly on Hacks and Disinformation\, and the implications for mainstream media’s coverage of COVID.\n30 min for Q&A”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cyber-and-covid-19/
LOCATION:Webinar
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 and the US Democratic Process | NetGain
DESCRIPTION:“COVID-19 has exposed the susceptibility of our democratic processes to digital shortcomings\, including increasing uncertainty around the ability to carry out free\, fair\, and safe elections in 2020 as well as the already present challenges of a high tech census. Across the country\, advocates and campaigns are also facing a new reality as community education\, outreach\, and offline mobilization grinds to a halt\, and organizations must rely on digital formats to carry out their work plans. \nThis webinar will explore the ways in which our democratic institutions are being forced to adapt quickly to the new environment posed by COVID-19\, including digital security threats and other concerns related to civil society moving to exclusively digital formats.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/covid-19-and-the-us-democratic-process-netgain/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T180000
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SUMMARY:Coronavirus and the 2020 Election | JFK Presidential Library
DESCRIPTION:“EJ Dionne\, Washington Post columnist and political commentator; Janet Hook\, staff writer at The Los Angeles Times; and Ronald Brownstein\, senior editor at The Atlantic\, discuss implications of the novel coronavirus for the 2020 elections. Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty moderates the panel. \nRegister for this free virtual Kennedy Library Forum to receive an email reminder with a viewing link before the event.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/coronavirus-and-the-2020-election-jfk-presidential-library/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Cyber Policy Center Online Series | May 20
DESCRIPTION:“Kate Starbird and her team will be speaking about a new project that looks at how scientific findings and science credentials are mobilized in the spread of misinformation. \nAdditional information\, including Zoom RSVP link\, to be posted soon.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cyber-policy-center-online-series-may-20/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200529T143000
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SUMMARY:On Race and Technoculture | Data & Society
DESCRIPTION:“Join us online for a talk with André Brock\, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\, in conversation with Data & Society’s Director of Research Sareeta Amrute as part of Data & Society’s classic Databite series. Brock’s book asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western technoculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis (Brock\, 2018)\, Afro-optimism\, and libidinal economic theory\, this Databite employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic. \nTechnoculture is the American mythos (Dinerstein\, 2006) and ideology; a belief system powering the coercive\, political\, and carceral relations between culture and technology. Once enslaved\, historically disenfranchised\, never deemed literate\, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as- technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things.” Hence\, Black technoculture. \nThis talk will include closed captioning and Q&A. Please include accessibility requests with your RSVP.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/on-race-and-technoculture-data-society/
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