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Upcoming Events

Mar 20, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Moderating AI and Moderating with AI

RSM Speaker Series

RSM welcomes Dave Willner for a talk on the promises and perils that foundation models present for the field of content moderation.

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Mar 27, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

A Contractual Approach to Social Media Governance

RSM Speaker Series

Gilad Mills discusses his work on social media governance with Martha Minow...

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Mar 28, 2024 @ 1:00 PM

Social Media and Well-Being in Context

RSM Speaker Series

The purpose of this discussion is to identify what we know and don’t know about how context influences the way social media is used and its effects on well-being.

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Apr 2, 2024 @ 3:00 PM

Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

Conversation & Book Signing

A new book by Dr. Apryl Williams exposes how race-based discrimination is a fundamental part of the most popular and influential dating…

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Apr 11, 2024 @ 6:00 PM

Enshittification, Disenshittification and The Bezzle: Cory Doctorow in conversation with Randall Munroe

Conversation & Book Signing

Activist, author and journalist Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification," the American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year, describing how platforms decay and why they're…

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Past Events

Mar 12, 2024 @ 9:30 AM

Building Accountability Infrastructures for Social Media and LLMs with a Focus on Mental Health

In-Person Workshop

Robert Gorwa and Michael Veale discuss their research into the governance questions raised by the moderation of model marketplaces...

Mar 6, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Moderating Model Marketplaces

Platform Governance Puzzles for AI Intermediaries | RSM Speaker Series

Robert Gorwa and Michael Veale discuss their research into the governance questions raised by the moderation of model marketplaces...

Mar 5, 2024 @ 4:00 PM

Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI

Urs Gasser returns to BKC for a book launch on "Guardrails" about decision governance.

Urs Gasser returns to BKC for a book launch on "Guardrails" about decision governance.

Mar 5, 2024 @ 12:15 PM

Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State

RSM Speaker Series

RSM welcomes Chinmayi Arun, Anupam Chander, and Haochen Sun for a conversation launching Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State, a new open access…

Feb 28, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Black Networked Resistance

Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age (RSM Speaker Series)

Raven Maragh-Lloyd discusses her new book, Black Networked Resistance, with Meredith Clark...

Feb 14, 2024 @ 12:00 PM

AI Pedagogy Workshop

For educators and others who want to meet this moment critically and creatively

Are you an educator? Are you feeling challenged, or inspired, or overwhelmed by this moment in AI? Join us...

Feb 7, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Breaking the Silence

Marginalized Tech Workers’ Experiences and Community Solidarity (RSM Speaker Series)

Anika Collier Navaroli and Nadah Feteih discuss the experiences of underrepresented employees at tech companies...

Feb 1, 2024 @ 6:15 PM

FBI: New Cyber Challenges and Recent Take-Downs

FBI’s Cyber Chief Bryan Vorndran Discusses the Bureau’s Strategy and Case Studies

Dec 13, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

The Future of Social Media Research

(RSM Speaker Series)

RSM welcomes Ethan Zuckerman for a conversation with Faculty Director James Mickens on the future of social media research and third-party social media tools.

Dec 6, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

The U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study

Understanding Social Media's (RSM Speaker Series)

Launched as a partnership between Meta and independent external researchers, the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study has led to groundbreaking social science scholarship…

Nov 29, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

Platforms, Privacy, and Power

Why Intimate Privacy Protections Matter (RSM Speaker Series)

The Institute for Rebooting Social welcomes Jon Penney and Alexis Shore for a discussion of their research on platform intimate privacy protections, coauthored with Danielle…

Nov 15, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

Palo Alto

A History of California Capitalism, and the World

RSM welcomes Malcolm Harris and Erik Baker for a discussion of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Harris’s national bestseller.

Nov 13, 2023 @ 12:30 PM

The Quantified Worker

With exhaustive detail, Ifeoma Ajunwa shows how different forms of worker quantification are enabled, facilitated, and driven by technological advances. Timely and eye-opening,…

Nov 9, 2023 @ 3:00 PM

The Young and the Influential

Labor Law Reform to Protect Kid-influencers

In a world where young people are the dominant users of social media, but still don’t have voting rights or positions of power to legislate reform, where do their rights to…

Nov 8, 2023 @ 11:00 AM

mL Talks: Autographic Design - the matter of data

Virtual Book preview & Conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber & Lev Manovich

Join us for a conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber and Lev Manovich about Offenhuber’s forthcoming book Autographic Design - The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World...

Nov 8, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

Platforms, creators and the co-option of social justice narratives

(RSM Speaker Series)

  RSM welcomes Zoë Glatt for a conversation with Visiting Scholar David Craig about her current research on…

Nov 2, 2023 @ 3:30 PM

Event on the EU AI Act: Which Lessons for US AI Regulation?

Join the AI & Tech Policy Caucus at HKS for a conversation with EU AI Act Co-author Gabriele Mazzini, former Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, and Secretary-General of the…

Nov 1, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

AI Ethics and Governance

An Industry Perspective (RSM Speaker Series)

  With the incorporation of AI across industries, questions about the ethical implications of using these tools have become mainstream. This panel discussion…

Nov 1, 2023 @ 9:30 AM

Regulating AI: A Sisyphean Task?

A Breakfast Talk @ the Berkman Klein Center

Join us on November 1st for a breakfast talk about the future of AI regulation from a transatlantic perspective at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…