Two talks by danah boyd at the University of Vienna. 🌐👏 Don't miss out on expertise on technology and society:
📅 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰 on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 16:45 - 18:15 at the BIG Lecture Hall, University of Vienna.
💬 What is it about?
Online communities promised global connection but delivered misinformation, division, and distrust. Beyond algorithms, our fraying social fabric needs attention. In this talk, danah boyd explores how to rebuild it and the role technology can play.
This lecture is part of the lecture series "Foundations and Methods of Digital Humanism". It explores the movement of Digital Humanism and is a cooperation between Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF) and #univie.
More about it here: ⤵
https://lnkd.in/dVMR7t73
📅 𝗜𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗜 on Thursday, January 30, 2025 starting at 15:00, in Lecture Hall 2 at Währinger Straße 29.
💬 Over the past decade, practices like red-teaming and responsible #AI have emerged to keep AI investments on track. These methods address pitfalls, minimize risks, and guide systems towards positive outcomes. In this talk, danah will discuss challenges in minimizing harm and offer frameworks for understanding the current landscape.
More info on the CS talk here: ⤵
https://lnkd.in/dHxcCXZB
🗣 About danah boyd:
danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, specializing in the intersection of technology and society, particularly how structural inequities influence and are influenced by technology, and founded the research institute Data & Society.
More about boyd's research here: ⤵
https://www.danah.org/
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