We are thrilled to announce that Frances Haugen is joining the Centre as Senior-Fellow-in-Residence. McGill University Read full announcement: mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/faceb…

Thrilled to join such a thoughtful group of voices - looking forward to learning from you all!

From Paris to hot off the press! Platform companies, civil society actors and the importance of ‘network governance’ by Robyn Caplan

harm that is not meaningful to white men has been *actually* happening for decades.

🚨💯 prestigious researchers published a call in favor of the Observatory on Information and Democracy: "technology should live in the house of democracy and not the other way around". An effort initiated by RSF and coordinated by the @Forum_Info👇 informationdemocracy.org/2023/05/17/wor…

New pub day! In this short commentary I get a little personal and talk about how clumsy and anxious it can be to critique the climate emissions of digital systems... on digital systems. doi.org/10.1177/205630…

Excited to be in Paris for Viva Technology 2023 and this inevitably fun -- and timely -- conversation with Charlie Beckett Sonja Solomun Jeremy Kahn on #medialiteracy and #AI TOMORROW (Friday) 📍15:50 | Stage 2

Lastly, here's a brilliant and very related piece by Rachel and Sonja Solomun for AI Now Institute that shows how Big Tech mislabels AI systems as "sustainable" and conceals major ethical issues: tinyurl.com/bdz3fy57. Very relevant to machine translation ethics. (8/8)

Immensely proud of the teams at Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy and MASS LBP for all the work that went into making this happen. It's going to be a special week. digitalassembly.ca

so excited to be at Canadian Museum for Human Rights hosting our Youth Assembly Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy MASS LBP. This day has once again reinforced how engaged and thoughtful youth are in leading policy change in Canada

aaaand it's out! ALGORITHMIC AUTHENTICITY, with wendy hui kyong chun and others, is available open access from meson press in PDF meson.press/books/algorith…

Defend my PhD thesis? After all it did to me??

Thank you!! Excited for support from NEH Digital Humanities on our intergenerational storytelling & oral history project about memory, politics & info networks in Asian diasporas. Looking forward to collabing w/ the durian don dada AFIRE Chicago Tayo & our friends and communities in this work✨

On International Day for Democracy, the Forum on Information & Democracy's Observatory announces the appointment of 19 prominent figures for its first steering committee, including Frances Haugen, Jeremy Rifkin, Timothy Garton Ash and Ghassan Salamé. We are delighted to launch the Observatory's

Delighted that our Deputy Director Sonja Solomun has been appointed as the Canadian representative for Forum on Information & Democracy Observatory on Information & Democracy alongside senior fellow Frances Haugen The 19 member committee aims to understand the impact of tech on democratic governance

“The misogynistic targeting of Rachel Gilmore’s gender in the sustained online abuse she receives cannot go unnoticed”. There is no ambiguity here.

Catch Proton's founder, @AndyYen, at #Vivatech, discussing the intersection of technology and democracy with ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳, Mitchell Baker, Jeremy Kahn, and Sonja Solomun. 🗓️ Today, 2:25 pm CET | 8:25 am ET ▶️ Watch the panel livestream on stage 3 here: vivatechnology.com

The first panel of our event Charting the Course: Navigating Climate Justice in the Digital Age has kicked off! With Esli Chan, Geoff Dembicki, Chris Russill, moderated by Sonja Solomun

So happy to have this finally out in the world!