IViR Lecture

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Victor Pickardwill give a lecture entitledReimagining Local Media Infrastructures: Non-Reformist Media Reforms to Better Serve Democratic Needson 18 December 2024 We learn as children that democracy requires a functional press system as a prerequisite for a self-governing society. There is also a general consensus that all communities have informational… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Reimagining Local Media Infrastructures: Non-Reformist Media Reforms to Better Serve Democratic Needs

IViR is pleased to announce thatDr. Cecilia Rikapwill give a lecture entitledIntellectual Monopoly amid the AI and Cloud ageon 22 November 2024 The world’s largest corporations are knowledge and information predators. They turned these intangibles into assets and craft narratives that further enable them to capture value from society at large. They capture knowledge co-produced… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Intellectual Monopoly amid the AI and Cloud Age

IViR and the Law Centre for Health and Life (UvA) are pleased to announce thatLeonardo Cervera Navaswill give a lecture entitledArtificial Intelligence and Data Protection,a view from the European Data Protection Supervisoron 18 October 2024. The AI Act is a leadership call for a human-centered approach to the regulation of new technologies. The EU aims to… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection, a view from the European Data Protection Supervisor

IViR is pleased to announce thatProfessor Benjamin Rauewill give a lecture entitledFreedom of speech on platforms: Lessons to be learned from copyright lawon 28 June 2024 It is not easy to strike a balance between the protection of intellectual property or personal rights and freedom of expression, especially on online platforms. Copyright law had to… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Freedom of speech on platforms: Lessons to be learned from copyright law

IViR is pleased to announce thatProfessor Kate Klonickwill give a lecture entitledBig Speechon 31 May 2024 The massive scale of Big Tech platforms is widely viewed not just as a threat to market efficiency or consumer welfare, but to the integrity of the public sphere and democracy itself. This is especially true when it comes… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Big Speech

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Linnet Taylorwill give a lecture entitled“Should we decentralise the oversight of AI?“on Friday 15 December 2023 AI regulation, like technology regulation in general, is structured around formal expertise and independent regulators who are not public-facing in their work. AI as a social phenomenon, however, is broad in its uses… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Should we decentralise the oversight of AI?

IViR is pleased to announce thatAlexandra Giannopoulouwill give a lecture entitledLeveraging the EU Charter of fundamental rights in digital rights strategic litigationon Friday 2 June 2023 This lecture will describe the Developing Information, Guidance, and Interconnectedness for (Charter) Rights Integration in Strategies for Enforcement (“digiRISE”) project developed by the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF).  The Charter… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Leveraging the EU Charter of fundamental rights in digital rights strategic litigation

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Julie Cohenwill give a lecture entitledInformational Capitalism, Digital Infrastructures, and Information Society Governanceon Friday 21 April 2023 In capitalist political economies, the emergence of informational and informationally mediated modes of development has produced large scale shifts toward identification and extraction of intangible resources, datafication of inputs to economic production,… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Informational Capitalism, Digital Infrastructures, and Information Society Governance

IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Dwayne Winseckwill give a lecture entitledRegulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from Communications Regulation & Antritrust Lawon Friday 3 February 2023 The purpose of this talk is to address the steady stream of public policy that has been taking shape in one country after another with respect to… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from Communications Regulation & Antitrust Law

IViR is pleased to announce thatNick Diakopouloswill give a lecture entitledPlatform Effects: How Algorithmic Intermediaries Shape Attention to Newson Friday 9 December 2022 Google, Twitter, TikTok, these and others are the algorithmic platforms that dominate our attention and exposure to important sources of information online. But how exactly, and to what extent, are these algorithmic… Continue reading IViR Lecture Series: Platform Effects: How Algorithmic Intermediaries Shape Attention to News