Important reflections on #GloTech report by Tori Elliott: emphasizes need to show interconnectedness of global ecosystem, business model. How platforms create _global_ systems that transverse borders (and why we need transnational / global frameworks to analyse its power & flows)

🔥🔥🔥 incredible panel with Kathy Roberts Forde, Heesoo Jang, Seyram Avle, and Herman Wasserman

We are so thrilled that one of our rockstar panelists, Heesoo Jang, will be joining us at the UMass Journalism dept.! 🤩 #GloTechLab

We are so thrilled to have you here, Marcelo Alves! ✨🤗

We are incredibly fortunate to have Seyram Avle on our leadership team!

Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you Martha Fuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥

We can't imagine the #GloTechLab without Burcu Baykurt 's vision! 🔥

Understated: fantastic moderating by Ethan Zuckerman! Chef's kiss #GloTechLab

First time to hear Heesoo Jang speak and already buzzing with ideas for new schemes and projects UMass Amherst 🔥

Panel 3, "Global Elections 2024: India, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana and the USA" was incredible! 🔥📷 Thank you Heesoo Jang, Herman Wasserman, Seyram Avle, Kathy Roberts Forde and Ethan Zuckerman for moderating!

Thank you so much "Calling Out and Calling In: How to Globalize the Tech & Democracy Space (and still get funded)" panelists for your candid conversation! Meetali Jain, Adam Fivenson, Toni Friedman, Herman Wasserman, Dhanaraj Thakur (@[email protected]), & our brilliant moderator Burcu Baykurt🔥 #GloTechLab

Thank you, Val Paskar! ✨🤩

"...transactional ties, where the tech industry deliberately exploits cash-strapped public institutions and asserts its expertise in data science. Under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have turned the state into a reliant client." -Burcu Baykurt GloTech Lab

🥳 #GloTechLab research lead Burcu Baykurt just published a new essay “Corporate Capture” Data & Society anthology👇 datasociety.net/library/keywor……

#GloTechLab Community Lead Prof. Seyram Avle Seyram Avle and co-author Prof. Jean Hardy Jean Hardy discuss techno-optimism in the latest The Conversation U.S. article. Read here: tinyurl.com/mr2tt4w8

With my brilliant friends at Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…

Vittoria Elliott has a great overview of our arguments and what's at stake in the case in her piece for WIRED: wired.com/story/meta-sec…

GloTech News: New publication by GloTech Lead Burcu Baykurt entitled "Corporate Capture" published in Data & Society anthology: buff.ly/44p0rtB

#GloTechLab senior fellow Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta.

Come hang out with our #GloTechLab fellows (Jonathan Corpus Ong, Nora Süren Lizhen Zhao Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인, Larri Miller, M.S. (she/they)) at AoIR 2024 in Sheffield, UK AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected]