[Advisors] Fwd: Taming Big Tech: "How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in Canada" In Conversation with Wendy Chun - Tuesday, Jan 18, 4pm ET

[Marita Moll]

Hello advisors. Another Taming Big Tech session on Tues. I hope some of 
you can make it. I do expect to be there.

Marita

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CFE In Conversation: How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in 
Canada

#7 in CFE Series: Taming Big Tech: Exploring the Alternatives

Wendy Chun In conversation with Andrew Clement

Tuesday, Jan 18,  4pm  ET

Weblink: 
https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-re-claim-digital-platforms-democracy-canada 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-re-claim-digital-platforms-democracy-canada>

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/627314265065431/ 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/952696912122090/>

Wendy Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser 
University. She leads the Digital Democracies Institute which aims to 
develop methods for creating effective online counterspeech and 
alternative models for connection to combat the proliferation of online 
“echo chambers,” abusive language, discriminatory algorithms and 
mis/disinformation. Join Wendy in conversation with Andrew Clement, host 
of the CFE Taming Big Tech series and Professor Emeritus


  UPCOMING IN THE ‘TAMING BIG TECH’ SERIES...

#6 *Use a scalpel or a 
club?*<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/use-scalpel-or-club>- Konrad von 
Finckenstein 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_von_Finckenstein> Senior fellow, 
C.D. Howe Institute, former Commissioner of Competition, former Chairman 
of the_Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission_ 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Radio-television_and_Telecommunications_Commission> (CRTC) 
- 2022 Jan 12, 4:00pm to 5:30pm ET

#7 *How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in Canada* 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-re-claim-digital-platforms-democracy-canada> - 
Wendy Chun 
<https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/wendy-chun.html>_,_ Canada 
150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University and director 
of the Digital Democracies Institute 
<https://digitaldemocracies.org/> - Jan 18, 4:00pm to 5:30pm ET

#8 *The Golden Age of Surveillance: Can privacy laws save us?* 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/golden-age-surveillance-can-privacy-laws-save-us> - 
_Tamir Israel_, Staff Lawyer, Canadian Internet Policy and Public 
Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) <https://cippic.ca/>, University of Ottawa 
Centre for Law, Technology and Society - Jan 26, 4:00pm to 5:30pm ET

LISTEN TO PREVIOUS SESSIONS IN THE ‘TAMING BIG TECH’ SERIES...

*#1**How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Seize the Means of 
Computation* 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/podcasts/how-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-seize-means-computation>*- 
*Cory Doctorow*,* <https://craphound.com/> SF author and digital rights 
activist, in conversation with Andrew Clement – 2021 May 19

*#2 Take Control of Algorithms, Data, and Infrastructure 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/podcasts/take-control-algorithms-data-and-infrastructure>**- 
*Meredith Whittaker*,* 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Whittaker> ex-Googler 
and Co-founder/Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU 
<https://ainowinstitute.org/>, in conversation with Andrew Clement  - 
  June 2

*#3 Defund Big Tech, Refund Community 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/podcasts/defund-big-tech-refund-communities> -* panel 
with *Lilly Irani,* UC San Diego; *Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar, *MIT Media 
Lab; *and Dawn Walker,* UofT - June 10

*#4**Governing Big Tech in Canada*** 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/governing-big-tech-canada>*- *Taylor Owen 
<https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen>*, 
*Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications at McGill 
University, founding director of The Center for Media, Technology and 
Democracy <https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/> in conversation with 
Andrew Clement - Nov 2


*#5 “How Should Democracies Regulate Speech Online?” 
<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-should-democracies-regulate-speech-online> 
*- Jameel Jaffer <https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/jameel-jaffer>, 
__Adjunct Professor of Law and Journalism, Columbia University and 
executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute in 
conversation with Andrew Clement - Dec 8

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Andrew Clement
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information
Coordinator, Information Policy Research Program
University of Toronto
140 St George Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G6
andrew.clement at utoronto.ca <mailto:andrew.clement at utoronto.ca>
skype: andrewclement2
http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty/andrew-clement 
<http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty/andrew-clement>
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