We would like to cordially invite you to our Global Digital Cultures Soirée, which will take place on Wednesday, 4 December, 2024, between 18:00 and 22:00, at the Brakke Grond Cafe.
The speakers this time are Silvia Masiero (The University of Oslo), Bidisha Chaudhuri (UvA), and Valentina Carraro (UvA).
In this soiree, Silvia Masiero will present her new book Unfair ID (Sage, Data Justice Series, October 2024). Using a data justice lens to explore narratives of unfairness in, and harm caused through digital ID, she will discuss routes to build activist mechanisms to combat unfairness.
Valentina will discuss her new NWO-funded project on the geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Geopolitical actors increasingly draw on AI technologies to pursue their agendas, while securitization and militarization drive investment into AI research and development. The research will examine these mutually reinforcing and pernicious trends, focusing on the narratives that underpin them.
After brief presentations from these scholars, the floor will be open for questions and comments from participants.
As always, our soirées involve food and drinks; the evening will start with drinks, and dinner will be served around 20:00. Attendance is free of charge.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Stefania Milan & Richard Ronald on behalf of team GDC
Silvia Masiero is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is a long-term researcher of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D), with a focus on the role of digital platforms in socio-economic development processes. She has authored over 80 peer-reviewed research papers on topics including digital social protection, platform-mediated surveillance and decolonial approaches to information systems research. Silvia is Editor-In-Chief of the journal Information Technology for Development, Chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, and a Senior Editor at the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. She has received the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Mid-Career Award in the year 2023.
Dr Valentina Carraro is Assistant Professor at the GPIO and is affiliated with the AISSR programme group on Political and Economic Geographies. Her research broadly considers how emerging digital technologies and practices transform people, places and the relations between them. She is especially interested in the geopolitics of platforms, working at the intersection of digital and political geography.
Dr. Bidisha Chaudhuri is an Assistant Professor of Government, Information Cultures and Digital Citizenship at Department of Media Studies (Archival and Information Studies) at the University of Amsterdam. He current work focuses on digital governance and infrastructures, politics of data and algorithms, political economy of AI, work and ethics.