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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Danaë Metaxa\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nDanaë Metaxa\, PhD\, Computer Science\, Stanford University; and incoming Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, with a secondary appointment in Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series-danae-metaxa-stanford-university/
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SUMMARY:Free Speech on Public Platforms with Professor Jamal Greene
DESCRIPTION:Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse\, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy\, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights\, Global Affairs\, and Philosophy. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book\, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence\, the series draws upon a range of scholars\, technology leaders\, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society and human life.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/free-speech-on-public-platforms-with-professor-jamal-greene/
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Brandeis Marshall\, Spelman College
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nBrandeis Marshall\, Professor of Computer Science\, Computer and Information Sciences Department\, Spelman College
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series/
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Ali Alkhatib\, University of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nAli Alkhatib\, Director\, Center for Applied Data Ethics\, University of San Francisco
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series-ali-alkhatib-university-of-san-francisco/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211103T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211103T133000
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SUMMARY:2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies—particularly due to advances in artificial intelligence—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use. However\, this debate has often been dominated by ‘Western’ ethical perspectives\, values and interests\, to the exclusion of broader ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. Against this backdrop\, the 2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics will bring together a range of cultural\, social and structural perspectives on the ethical issues relating to digital information technologies\, with the aim of broadening the approach of digital and AI ethics. The symposium will be hosted virtually by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on November 3 and 4. Information on how to register can be found below. 
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/2021-symposium-on-intercultural-digital-ethics/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T173000
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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Data Curation: Data Journalism
DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Meredith Broussard\, Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and author of the award-winning book\, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT\, 2018). \nCritical AI’s main focal point for Fall 2021 is our Ethics of Data Curation workshop (to be held over Zoom)\, the product of a National Endowment for the Humanities and Rutgers Global sponsored international collaboration between Rutgers and the Australian National University. The lead organizers for the series are Katherine Bode and Baden Pailthorpe at ANU and Lauren M.E. Goodlad at Rutgers. All of the workshops and associated talks are free and open to the public but space is limited so please register well in advance (see schedule and registration links below). \n\n\n\n\nOur Ethics of Data Curation workshop invites you to join a network of cross-disciplinary scholars including leading thinkers on the question of data curation and data-centric machine learning technologies. Please join the discussion\, or if the time doesn’t work for you\, watch the recordings of our workshop meetings and join us on Critical AI’s blog for asynchronous conversations.\nRegister here for Meredith Broussard’s talk at 5:30 \nRegister here for the workshop discussion to follow \n\n\n\n\n\nOctober 14\, 2021 5:30PM
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-ethics-of-data-curation-data-journalism/
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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Data Curation: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive analysis of large language models and their impact by Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru\, et al.  \nThe discussion of this important essay will be led by co-facilitators Kath Bode (Data History\, ANU) and Matthew Stone (Computer Science\, RU). \nPrimary Reading: Emily Bender\, Timnit Gebru\, et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” \nCritical AI’s main focal point for Fall 2021 is our Ethics of Data Curation workshop (to be held over Zoom)\, the product of a National Endowment for the Humanities and Rutgers Global sponsored international collaboration between Rutgers and the Australian National University. The lead organizers for the series are Katherine Bode and Baden Pailthorpe at ANU and Lauren M.E. Goodlad at Rutgers. All of the workshops and associated talks are free and open to the public but space is limited so please register well in advance (see schedule and registration links below). \nOctober 7\, 2021 5:30PM \nRegistration Link
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-ethics-of-data-curation-on-the-dangers-of-stochastic-parrots/
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SUMMARY:Reconciling Social Media & Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Description: While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration\, from regulation to antitrust action\, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a new social media ecosystem that relies less on centrally managed platforms like Facebook and more on decentralized\, interoperable services and components. \nIn this mini-symposium\, we will explore some of these ideas and critique them. \nParticipants include: \nTracy Chou\, founder and CEO of Block Party\, software engineer\, and diversity advocate\nJoan Donovan\, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy\nCory Doctorow\, science fiction author\, activist and journalist\nFrancis Fukuyama\, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy\, Development\, and the Rule of Law\, and Director of Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy\nDipayan Ghosh\, Co-Director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and faculty at Harvard Law School\nJustin Hendrix\, CEO and Editor\, Tech Policy Press\nDaphne Keller\, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center\nNathalie Maréchal\, Senior Policy and Partnerships Manager at Ranking Digital Rights\nMichael Masnick\, Founder\, CEO and Editor\, Techdirt\nRichard Reisman\, innovator\, entrepreneur\, consultant\, and investor\nRamesh Srinivasan\, Professor\, UCLA Department of Information Studies and Director of UC Digital Cultures Lab \nTime: Oct 7\, 2021 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/reconciling-social-media-democracy/
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SUMMARY:Tech Whistleblowing: Resources\, Ramifications\, & Resiliency
DESCRIPTION:Tech sector whistleblowers have played an increasingly vital role in exposing racism and toxic workplace environments\, algorithmic bias\, and other platform harms. But the cost of coming forward with information can be tremendous – including psychological\, legal\, and employment ramifications. This webinar will explore what is needed to build and maintain safe and secure channels for tech whistleblowers to share platform harms with the public\, and how civil society can support whistleblowers who boldly tell the truth. \nSpeakers: \n\n\nDelphine Halgand-Mishra\, Executive Director\, The Signals Network \n\n\nIfeoma Ozoma\, Founder and Principal\, Earthseed \n\n\nTrevor Timm\, Executive Director\, Freedom of the Press Foundation \n\n\nModerator: \n\n\nAmber French\, Executive Director\, Media Democracy Fund
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/tech-whistleblowing-resources-ramifications-resiliency/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211005T190000
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SUMMARY:Design and Technology Cloud Salon: Lena Chen and Maggie Oates
DESCRIPTION:Lena Chen is a Chinese American writer and artist creating performances and socially engaged art in live and virtual contexts. Her practice has been informed by her experiences as one of the earliest documented survivors of revenge porn and her work in the sex industry as a stripper\, cam performer\, and fetish provider. She earned a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University\, and is a MFA candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. \nThe most legible title for Maggie Oates is “creative technologist.” On odd days\, she’s a caregiver\, a privacy nerd\, a performer\, an aspiring transformative justice practitioner\, and an artist. Her academic and personal research focuses on the intersection of privacy and The Arts\, particularly on how artists and institutions (over/under/mis/lovingly) use digital data. She is based indefinitely in Pittsburgh\, PA\, USA. \nThe Design and Technology programs at Parsons present Cloud Salon\, a Zoom webinar series that invites artists\, designers\, technologists\, and industry professionals to present projects and to engage in direct conversations with participants. This talk is organized in partnership with Decoding Stigma. \nDecoding Stigma is an interdisciplinary\, international group of people within the Venn diagram of sex work\, technology\, and academia\, hosting events and meeting regularly to deconstruct and re-generate the relationship between sex work and tech. We make up a distributed network of radical individuals “stranded” on different institutional islands\, coming together to try to answer the question: what can tech learn from sex workers? \nThis talk will begin with a 20-minute presentation by Lena Chen and Maggie Oates\, followed by a 40-minute conversation with participants\, moderated by Decoding Stigma. \nSponsored by the BFA Design and Technology and MFA Design and Technology programs at Parsons School of Design.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/design-and-technology-cloud-salon-lena-chen-and-maggie-oates/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T130000
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SUMMARY:Women of Color and the Digital Labor of Repair
DESCRIPTION:Women of color make our digital products. They assemble them in Asian factories and their cheap labor has made the tech industry’s innovation possible. This presentation focuses on their immaterial and knowledge work that contributes directly to the Internet’s usability. Women of color on social media and gaming platforms contribute unpaid labor to call out misogyny\, violations of user agreements\, and hateful behavior. They lead our most effective and important campaigns against racism from their keyboards. This is piecework in the classical sense\, squeezed in between paid work and leisure\, it is unpaid\, but it is productive. It is unpaid not because it is not valuable\, but because of the type of person who is doing it\, a type of person who is not treated as a person. This labor of digital repair is exactly the kind of labor that can’t be automated or outsourced. \nThis presentation will analyze three examples of young women of color’s work as digital documentarians of public racism on TikTok\, Facebook\, and Instagram using a comparative critical race studies approach. Join Lisa Nakamura\, founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and P.I. of the DISCO: Digital Inquiry\, Speculation\, Collaboration\, and Optimism Network\, a 3-year Mellon-funded 4.8 million dollar collaborative higher education grant\, to discuss anti-racist platform building\, maintenance\, and repair. \nTogether\, you’ll explore: \n\nThe history of women’s\, children’s\, and transgender people’s labor as community leaders (CL’s) from America Online to Instagram how they model a high-touch mutual aid-informed digital culture of care.\nTheoretical and speculative approaches to anti-racist platform alternatives\nRacial and gendered solidarities and intimacies on visual digital social platforms\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Director of the Digital Studies Institute and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books on race\, gender\, and the Internet\, most recently Racist Zoombombing (Routledge\, 2021\, co-authored with Hanah Stiverson and Kyle Lindsey) and Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT\, 2020\, as Precarity Lab).
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/women-of-color-and-the-digital-labor-of-repair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210818T130000
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SUMMARY:The New Jim Code: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
DESCRIPTION:From everyday apps to complex algorithms\, technology has the potential to hide\, speed\, and deepen discrimination\, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin presents the concept of the “New Jim Code” to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies\, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions\, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. This presentation takes us into the world of biased bots\, altruistic algorithms\, and their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. Ruha will also consider how race itself is a tool designed to naturalize social hierarchies and\, in doing so\, she challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold\, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves. \nRuha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University\, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab and author of two books\, People’s Science and Race After Technology\, which was awarded Brooklyn Public Library’s 2020 Nonfiction Prize. She’s also the editor of Captivating Technology. She’s currently working on her fourth book\, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. She speaks widely about the relationship between innovation\, inequity\, knowledge and power\, race and citizenship\, health and justice. For more info\, visit www.ruhabenjamin.com
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-new-jim-code-reimagining-the-default-settings-of-technology-society/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210818T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210818T170000
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SUMMARY:Conference on Applied Statistics and Data Analytics
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URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/conference-on-applied-statistics-and-data-analytics/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210812T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210812T170000
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SUMMARY:Medical Data Privacy and Protection
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URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/medical-data-privacy-and-protection/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210716
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SUMMARY:4th International Symposium of Intelligent Unmanned Systems on Artificial Intelligence
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URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/4th-international-symposium-of-intelligent-unmanned-systems-on-artificial-intelligence/
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