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  • Ethics & Politics of AI: Tarleton Gillespie

    Content moderation can serve as a prism for examining what platforms are, and how they subtly torque public life. Our understanding of platforms too blithely accepted the terms in which they were sold and celebrated - open, impartial, connective, progressive, transformative - skewing our study of social behavior that happens on them, stunting our examination of their societal impact. Content moderation doesn’t fit this celebratory vision. As such, it has often been treated as peripheral to what they do—a custodial task, like sweeping up, occasional and invisible. What if moderation is in fact central to what platforms do? Moderation is...

  • Labor in the Global Platform Economy

    Times shown are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad   FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS: Video from this talk will be streamed live; see https://esc.dev.isr.umich.edu/ for details.   "Labor in the Global Platform Economy" is one of two public panel conversations that are part of the "Making the 'Future of Work' Work" workshop, funded by […]

  • Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics

        Times shown are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad   FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS: Video from this talk will be streamed live; see https://esc.dev.isr.umich.edu/ for details.   "Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics" is one of two public panel conversations that are part of the “Making the ‘Future of Work’ […]

  • ESC POD: Ph.D. Student Mixer

    A mixer for Michigan Ph.D. students interested in ESC to be held at "Hathaway’s Hideaway," a 1901 ward meeting hall redecorated with bar and restaurant furnishings from establishments that are significant in the history of Ann Arbor.

  • Aynne Kokas: From Grindr to Cybersovereignty

    The Chinese government has become increasingly involved in global standards-making events such as the annual Internet Governance Forum and China’s Wuzhen Internet Summit (aka the World Internet Conference) that leverage China’s national standing in international standards-building events to shape global the future of global Internet governance. At the same time, Chinese regulators are also exporting standards not through national, or international governance frameworks, but through the community standards of individual platforms. This talk examines how the Chinese government is expanding its regulatory control over global consumer platforms through the expansion of Chinese-owned consumer platforms.

  • ESC POD: Faculty Mixer

    A mixer for Michigan faculty interested in ESC to be held at "Hathaway’s Hideaway," a 1901 ward meeting hall redecorated with bar and restaurant furnishings from establishments that are significant in the history of Ann Arbor.

  • Megan Finn: We Are All Well

    When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may turn to Twitter for government bulletins and the latest news, check Facebook for updates from friends and family, look to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for online maps that show the quake's epicenter, and hope to count on help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This information order articulates a particular epistemic experience of earthquake...

  • Tina Eliassi-Rad: Just Machine Learning

    In this talk, I will discuss current tasks, experiences, and performance measures as they pertain to fairness in machine learning. The most popular task thus far has been risk assessment. Most human decision-makers seem to use risk estimates for efficiency purposes and not to make fairer decisions. The task of risk assessment seems to enable efficiency instead of fairness. I will present an alternative task definition whose goal is to provide more context to the human decision-maker. I will discuss our null model for fairness and demonstrate how to use deviations from this null model to measure favoritism and prejudice in data.