News on Platforms & Infrastructure
LIVESTREAM HERE: Please RSVP for this hybrid event. Please join us on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 3:45pm for a discussion between Monika Bickert, Vice President for Content Policy at Meta, […]
In this talk, Lindsey D. Felt will introduce a framework that locates disability innovation, artistry, and crip politics as central to the development of AI and technology. From M Eifler’s Prosthetic […]
Can AI be a Force for Global Public Health? From the Covid-19 pandemic to more recent outbreaks of Monkeypox and Poliovirus, wastewater surveillance technologies and their data have demonstrated the […]
Join CDT, CLASP, and I Vote for Me for a conversation on how monitoring programs increase disciplinary action and law enforcement contact. Date: November 17, 2022 Time: 2 PM – […]
On Tuesday, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP)—a data visualization project focused on documenting urban displacement and resistance—unveiled a new tool: the Evictorbook, a database of corporate landlords in San Francisco […]
Trust is not a one-size-fits-all concept. It is constructed and produced in ways that serve some communities, and exclude others. Many of our current technological systems are designed in ways […]
I had blinked at the aesthetic poverty of the most recent pitch for Meta’s Horizon Worlds VR game, featuring Mark Zuckerberg’s dead-eyed cartoon avatar against a visual background that one […]
It starts with a tick box on a form. To assess the potential risk to vulnerable people, my university ethics committee asks whether a research project involves “people with a […]
Might Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter impact next week’s U.S. midterm elections? Based on the impulsive and unprofessional behavior we’ve seen over just the past week, the answer is “yes.” […]
The Critical Digital Studies Group is hosting its first guest speaker event with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland).From the Archive to TikTok: Care and Feeding as Praxis in […]
Licensed healthcare professionals on YouTube can now apply to get panels added to their videos that mark them as reliable health information sources, the company said Thursday. They’ll also be […]