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SUMMARY:Network Book Forum: The Distance Cure | Hannah Zeavin with Dr. Romy Gad el Rab and Livia Garofalo
DESCRIPTION:Join author Hannah Zeavin for this conversation with Data & Society’s Health and Data researcher Livia Garofalo and psychiatrist Dr. Romy Gad el Rab\, inspired by Zeavin’s new book “The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy” (MIT Press). Provocations and Q&A follow the discussion.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/network-book-forum-the-distance-cure-hannah-zeavin-with-dr-romy-gad-el-rab-and-livia-garofalo/
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SUMMARY:The Future of Speech Online: Making Transparency Meaningful
DESCRIPTION:Transparency is in high demand in tech policy: Advocates are calling for more information to help fight discrimination and empower users to speak online\, researchers are seeking access to data to better understand the online environment\, and lawmakers are demanding answers from tech companies at high-profile hearings. Whether people are concerned about online services restricting too much\, too little\, or not the right speech\, everyone seems to agree that more transparency would improve the status quo. But what do we mean by transparency? What kinds of information do people actually want\, and what problems will it help us solve? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe fifth annual Future of Speech Online event on December 14-16\, 2021\, will tackle these questions as we explore this year’s theme of “Making Transparency Meaningful.”
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-future-of-speech-online-making-transparency-meaningful/
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SUMMARY:Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s
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. \nMy talk will concentrate on the ways that a select group of hackers secured their legitimacy by engaging with journalists\, popularizing the terminology of gray hat hacking\, releasing sensational tools to demonstrate security vulnerabilities\, and calling out Microsoft for their shoddy security. \nThis case study allows us to ask a broader series of questions about security: How are issues nominated as matters of concern? How might those operating outside the security establishment influence the security agenda? What does it mean that a domain so consistently equated with technical matters relies on social processes\, like media spectacle and extra-institutional collaboration?
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/security-by-spectacle-the-invention-of-gray-hat-hacking-the-fight-against-microsoft-in-the-1990s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Jasmine McNealy\, University of Florida
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. \nJasmine McNealy\, Associate Professor\, College of Journalism and Communications\, University of Florida
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series-jasmine-mcnealy-university-of-florida/
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SUMMARY:Technology for Social Good? AI\, Human Rights\, and Harm Reduction with Dr. Jay Aronson
DESCRIPTION:The volume of information available to human rights practitioners has grown steadily since the globalization of Internet access and the widespread adoption of smartphones across geographies\, cultures\, and socioeconomic classes. This vast material landscape creates an unprecedented visual record of the experiences of a significant percentage of humanity. When properly collected and analyzed\, this material can help human rights analysts\, fact-finders\, and researchers reconstruct war crimes\, human rights violations\, and terrorist acts taking place in locations that offer limited or no physical access. At the same time\, practitioners and organizations have been confronted with new challenges in dealing with the collection of massive amounts of data from a distance. This situation has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis as travel has become restricted and researchers\, analysts\, and fact-finders must rely on online digital information to investigate and validate claims of human rights abuse. In this talk\, Dr. Aronson will describe two case studies of how he and his colleagues have confronted these challenges with partners from across the human rights domain. He will pay particular attention to ethical approach that is taken in doing their work.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/technology-for-social-good-ai-human-rights-and-harm-reduction-with-dr-jay-aronson/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211201T203000
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SUMMARY:From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon
DESCRIPTION:First emerging from the anonymous imageboard 4chan\, Anonymous found its activist sea legs in 2008 during a worldwide protest campaign against the Church of Scientology. Not long after\, Anonymous surged in visibility and popularity as hackers used the name to lay claim to high-profile hacktivist actions. Other groups and individuals used it to coordinate dozens of political operations\, often supporting social justice movements. A decade later\, after Anonymous activity waned\, different movements and currents\, like the anonymous far-right and the conspiracy theorists QAnon had sprung forth from similar anonymous imageboards. Like Anonymous\, these movements and currents played integral\, even outsized roles in various political arenas.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/from-busting-cults-to-breeding-cults-anonymous-hacktivism-vs-qanon-2/
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SUMMARY:From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Biella Coleman will present From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon. Talk will be followed by Q&A period.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVirtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in English \nFirst emerging from the anonymous imageboard 4chan\, Anonymous found its activist sea legs in 2008 during a worldwide protest campaign against the Church of Scientology. Not long after\, Anonymous surged in visibility and popularity as hackers used the name to lay claim to high-profile hacktivist actions. Other groups and individuals used it to coordinate dozens of political operations\, often supporting social justice movements. A decade later\, after Anonymous activity waned\, different movements and currents\, like the anonymous far-right and the conspiracy theorists QAnon had sprung forth from similar anonymous imageboards. Like Anonymous\, these movements and currents played integral\, even outsized roles in various political arenas. \nIn contrast to Anonymous\, they often worked against the cause of social justice and\, in its stead\, supported reactionary\, racist\, conspiratorial or fascist political planks. How are we to understand this radical metamorphosis and the relationships between these currents and movements? In this talk\, I will examine the role of critical events\, translators\, and larger political forces in accounting for their differences and address issues around anonymity\, the difficulties in researching anonymous quarters of the internet\, and popular journalistic accounts in meshing together aspects of these movements that should be pried apart. In so doing\, I will make a case for careful historical analysis in media studies work and to call for the end of a class of categories\, like Internet activism\, that fails to capture the dynamics and importance of online tools for political movements today. \nGabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a cultural anthropologist\, she researches\, writes\, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism. Her first book on Free Software\, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking has been published with Princeton University Press. Her book\, “Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous\,” published by Verso\, was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. \nThis event is part of the 3rd Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. \nSeason 3 of our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research)\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, and the McGill Writing Centre. \nThere is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide captions in English.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/from-busting-cults-to-breeding-cults-anonymous-hacktivism-vs-qanon/
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SUMMARY:Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series: Dr. Sohini Ramachandran
DESCRIPTION:The initial draft sequence of the human genome\, published in 2001\, promised to usher the world towards personalized medicine\, in which a patient’s genome is used to diagnosis\, treat\, and prevent illness. Almost twenty years later\, many clinically actionable mutations have been identified and are incorporated into treatment\, and medical genomics offers exciting opportunities for data-driven discoveries about the genomic underpinnings of health. As increasingly large genomic datasets merged with medical records become available to researchers and the public turns to direct-to-consumer companies for genomic analysis\, challenging humanistic issues surrounding privacy\, preexisting conditions\, ancestry\, and kinship abound. As a human population geneticist\, I study the evolutionary forces that produce and maintain genetic variation in our species. I’ll describe a series of fundamental challenges for interpreting results from direct-to-consumer genetic testing and for making personalized medicine a reality for all.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-and-technology-a-research-lecture-series-dr-sohini-ramachandran/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211124T090000
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SUMMARY:Chosen by the Secret Algorithm: A Closer Look at Colombia’s Pandemic Payments
DESCRIPTION:In April 2020\, the Colombian government announced an unconditional cash transfer program to provide income to families who were deemed vulnerable to economic shocks caused by the pandemic. A mere 2 weeks after the scheme was launched\, 3 million families were notified by SMS that they had been selected as eligible and received the funds directly into their bank accounts. Rather than having those in need apply themselves\, the government independently chose eligible beneficiaries. The government did this by combining as much data as possible about its citizens\, building a new master database from 34 public and private databases\, including from private credit bureaus. This data had been collected for completely different purposes and\, in some cases\, without the knowledge of the included individuals. The master database was used to predict ‘income-generating capacity\,’ using a secret algorithm\, and thereby automatically determine who would be deserving of additional financial support during the pandemic. The Colombian approach poses a range of questions that are relevant far beyond its borders. Did it work? Who ultimately decided who was eligible\, and might such decisions be democratically controlled? Is this a move away from a neoliberal model of ‘targeting’ social benefits\, or its continuation in different form? What model of ‘datafied’ government is Colombia building within its welfare system\, and how will it affect the human rights of the most marginalized?
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/chosen-by-the-secret-algorithm-a-closer-look-at-colombias-pandemic-payments/
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SUMMARY:Cyber Partisans: An Insider's Interview on Truth\, Terror\, and Technology in the Lukashenko Regi
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Gabriella Coleman (Harvard University)\, Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University)\, and Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) \nHacktivism is on the rise\, and there’s a new\, notable crew on the block: the Cyber Partisans. Hailing from Belarus\, this collective was chartered in 2020 to fight and expose the Lukashenko regime. First hacking a TV station to stream videos of police brutality\, their tactics and interventions have become more diverse\, sophisticated\, and wide-ranging in 2021. Collaborating with former police officers and hacking into government databases\, they’ve landed and analyzed troves of leaked data that showcase everything from alleged police informants’ names to proof that the regime doctored Covid-19 death statistics to downplay the severity of the pandemic. \nTo learn more about the group’s operations and organization\, along with their history\, goals\, and successes\, please join us on Thursday\, November 18\, from 3-5 p.m. EST for an online event featuring the Cyber Partisans’ spokesperson\, Yuliana Shemetovets. She will join us live on video and communicate with several other members of the collective to answer questions from the event organizers and the audience.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/cyber-partisans-an-insiders-interview-on-truth-terror-and-technology-in-the-lukashenko-regi/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211117T100000
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SUMMARY:Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series: Dr. André Brock
DESCRIPTION:Race and technology are closely intertwined\, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years\, that is only one of the many ways that technology and race intersect in computer science\, public health\, digital media\, gaming\, surveillance\, and other domains. To build inclusive technologies that empower us all\, we must understand how technologies and race construct one another and with what consequences. \n\nWhere does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved\, historically disenfranchised\, and never deemed literate\, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS)\, reorienting Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as-technology” to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things”. Hence\, Black technoculture. Utilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis\, Afro-optimism\, and libidinal economic theory\, this presentation employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-and-technology-a-research-lecture-series-dr-andre-brock/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211110T140000
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SUMMARY:CDMC Symposium: Researching and Intervening in Digital Inequalities
DESCRIPTION:Digital infrastructure and the touchpoints it forms\, and does not form\, with people’s daily lives took on renewed significance during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Technology became the means through which people\, newly-required to work from home\, continued in employment; through which children and young people stayed connected with their schools; and through which relationships with friends and family were maintained.  It made goods and services accessible from home when shops were closed\, and provided entertainment\, news and information.  It offered a means of engaging with health services when face-to-face care was not possible.  Yet not for everyone.  For all the ways that technology created opportunities to participate and connect\, it by corollary\, compounded and amplified existing social and economic inequalities.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/cdmc-symposium-researching-and-intervening-in-digital-inequalities/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211110T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211110T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211109T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211109T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211109T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211109T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211109T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211109T170000
DTSTAMP:20211109T144441Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20211029T165037Z
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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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DTSTAMP:20211001T014028Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211007T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211007T173000
DTSTAMP:20211001T013422Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211007T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211007T130000
DTSTAMP:20211001T011612Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T140000
DTSTAMP:20211001T021558Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210818T140000
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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
DTSTAMP:20210517T204906Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20210517T204926Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20210517T204753Z
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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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