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SUMMARY:Fake News & Media Literacy: A 'Hear Me Out' Dialogue | Free Library of Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:Join your fellow Pennsylvanians in dialogue across distance and difference! The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased our reliance on social media and the Internet for information. This development\, combined with underlying political partisanship\, has created a breeding ground for disinformation\, conspiracy theories\, and information overload. In this two-hour session\, we will discuss the impacts of fake news and provide tools for accessing and evaluating reliable media. Register in advance here.\n\n\n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/fake-news-media-literacy-a-hear-me-out-dialogue-free-library-of-philadelphia/
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:CARGC Colloquium: EU Futures in the Disinformation Age | Annenberg Center for Communication
DESCRIPTION:The concatenation of European crises shows major transformations in the contemporary international arena and points to the reasons for a structural change in the modes and uses of European public diplomacy\, both inside and outside of EU institutions. Since 2008\, European institutions have learned to live in a state of crisis and response: the Eurozone crisis (2008)\, the Ukrainian issue (2014)\, the refugee movement (2015)\, the Brexit referendum (2016)\, the new transatlantic relationship (2017)\, and the COVID19 pandemic (2019). Each of these situations has caused a tremendous amount of stress and strain that has tested institutions and offered a lesson in international political communication as well. \nBut what’s new in the current Russian crisis? What’s the role of disinformation in the EU future? Why is disinformation recognized as the “biggest challenge and threat” to the EU power? In this context\, the construction of the enlightened dream of the EU is fading in the biggest political and economic crisis of its history. The fight against disinformation will be decisive in the future of the EU based not only on rational arguments\, but also on other attributes of public communication and political leadership. There is reason for hope. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cargc-colloquium-eu-futures-in-the-disinformation-age-annenberg-center-for-communication/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Living by Protocol | Harvard Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:The use of social media has become a daily routine for billions of people throughout the last decade. The problems and possibilities of this new media reality were reflected and questioned by artists long before its popularization. Cyberfeminism and Net Art layered a foundation as the digital realm as an artistic medium in the early 1990s. Today\, contemporary art is almost unthinkable without the network effects of Instagram\, Twitter\, YouTube\, TikTok\, and Facebook. \nLiving by protocol queries the contemporary reflections of artists on\, with\, and by social media. The nine grid structured monitors within the Lightbox Gallery become a subface onto the social database structures secret of extraction. The program will consist of six weeks of curated\, rotating media works and experiments. The show will commence with one week of talks\, discussions\, and other hybrid programming. Social media will be simultaneously the topic\, platform\, and space of experimentation.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/living-by-protocol-harvard-art-museum/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum
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SUMMARY:The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for this virtual event by Monday\, May 16\, 3:00 PM ET. \nZuccotti Park\, the site of Occupy Wall Street\, and One Liberty Plaza\, the multi-billion-dollar tower\, represent a complex power play between public and private interests. In the digital realm\, social media grapples with a similar contention: social networks would not exist without platform businesses and yet their public benefits are at odds with the drive for private profit. \nJoin us for a special Berkman Klein Center Luncheon featuring Joanne Cheung\, who will discuss her research and open access article Real Estate Politik: Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks\, which emerged from the Berkman Klein Ethical Tech Working Group and was originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Social Computing\, “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (Part 1\, Part 2). \nCheung argues that “social networks are privately owned public spaces caught between the misaligned incentives of public good and private profit” and that their business models perpetuate historical inequities. \nCheung’s article also explores the structural problems with social media from the perspective of land use. She compares the financialization of attention by platforms with the financialization of land by commercial real estate development—and explores activist land use models for public interest technology. \nRSVP \nRSVP for this virtual event by Monday\, May 16\, 3:00 PM ET. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-tower-and-the-park-structural-misalignments-of-social-media-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T140000
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SUMMARY:The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers\, Philanthropists\, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World | Berkman Klein Center
DESCRIPTION:Who is part of technology development\, who funds that development\, and how we put technology to use all influence the outcomes that are possible. To change those outcomes\, we must—all of us—shift our relationship to technology—how we use it\, build it\, fund it\, and more. \nJoin us for a fireside chat featuring Afua Bruce\, Sue Hendrickson\, and Amritha Jayanti\, who will discuss the future role and applications of the technology pushing the social impact sector forward. \nTheir conversation will explore the implications of the use\, creation\, and funding of technology and how social impact organizations\, technologists\, funders\, policymakers\, and—most importantly—communities can accelerate change for the better. \nThe Berkman Klein Center is pleased to present this event in collaboration with the Belfer Center to highlight the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project and Bruce’s new book (with Amy Sample Ward) The Tech That Comes Next. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-tech-that-comes-next-how-changemakers-philanthropists-and-technologists-can-build-an-equitable-world-berkman-klein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Librarians and Misinformation: Curating the Information Needs of Communities | Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to meet our information needs\, the public still overwhelmingly trusts libraries. That’s because librarians fulfill a service mission as community information stewards–long serving as the only place people can go for free internet access\, computer instruction\, books and access to critical government resources. \nAs the information needs of communities have expanded from a crisis of access to a crisis of trust\, librarians help patrons discern fact from fiction online and increasingly find themselves defending decisions about which books and information to carry and which to pull. The curatorial decisions of libraries have been shoved into the fray of polarized cultural and political debates about how to educate about racism in public schools\, how to provide community resources on queerness\, and whether or not to carry literature that promotes hate. \nMeanwhile\, debates rage about how tech companies and governments can regulate and retool our information ecosystems to keep communities safe and informed. Including the perspective of librarians in these conversations is essential to keeping solutions grounded in serving the information needs of our communities. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/librarians-and-misinformation-curating-the-information-needs-of-communities-shorenstein-center/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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