[Advisors] ** Starting now** 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
mmoll at ca.inter.net
Tue Jan 18 12:54:38 PST 2022
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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/
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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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