MRes Digital Futures and Governance

First intake for Sept 2021. Email Andy at [email protected] for info.

[Andrew McStay @digi_ad]

Curious: anyone any idea why the word "ethics" has boomed (in books) since the 1980s?

https://t.co/J8BSdSKKkP

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

Enjoying Whitney et al 2021, HCI Tactics for Politics from Below: Meeting the Challenges of Smart Cities. https://t.co/ZBSg0zSave

(A great read for what happens when diverse citizen perspectives are left out of smart city design and implementation. Plus how to include them!)

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

Open to all! Prospective and interested students, come join @MAD_Futures' @digi_ad, @VianBakir1, and what is an ace line up .

[Megan Boler @meganboler]

Join us for Panel on "Weaponized Media: politics of affect & propaganda" April 20, 11:30am EST w/@OJutel @KarinWahlJ @VianBakir1 @digi_ad @susannapaasonen @WarrenSack @luke_stark https://t.co/sPnQcIKq5j #affect #digitalmedia @UofTNews @Routledge_MandC
tix: https://t.co/BeaLb0CEVY

[The Emotional AI Lab @EmotionalAI]

BIG development. New EU AI draft rules say 'any natural person whose personal data is being processed by an emotion recognition system or a categorisation system shall be notified that they are exposed to such a system' (Art. 42(2)). https://t.co/lVqAkl5IFY

[The Emotional AI Lab @EmotionalAI]

On what regulation might look like, see ethical recommendations produced by @digi_ad and @paminthelab. We'd make a few changes, but what say you?

https://t.co/EWHMFyR4Ic

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

Prospective @MAD_Futures students! There are many ways to communicate privacy and governance issues. Essays and reports are not always best :)

[Stevie Martin @5tevieM]

everytime you try and go on a website

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

We're enjoying reading Jonathan Ong & Jason Cabañes' study of Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the scenes of troll accounts & fake news production in the Philippines.

Their ethnographic interviews with the disinformation network rocks!
https://t.co/PK3BdUqVdR

[Dr Bissie Anderson 🌻 @bissieanderson]

My @MediaBangor Y2/Y3 Digital Advertising students were on 🔥 today discussing empathic media and emotional AI, reaching a philosophical level of debate. It felt as if we were in a room together debating this resonant topic IRL. So proud of them! @digi_ad @EmotionalAI @MPCBangor

[The Emotional AI Lab @EmotionalAI]

Good piece on the history, reception and culture of physiognomy, and why understanding its original fascination matters now. https://t.co/jZl2ZXIX8G

[@frederike.bsky.social @F_Kaltheuner]

More jobs, this time @mozilla

[Andrew McStay @digi_ad]

With input from us at the @EmotionalAI Lab. Worth noting that age really is the key variable when it comes to uses of data about emotion. Over the years we find that young folk not keen (but more open if in control), with older folk most likely to reject in all circumstances.

[The Emotional AI Lab @EmotionalAI]

'Emotional AI in the Wokeplace'? Fascinating how all parts of the political matrix have their critical on take on this topic! Article by @AndrewOrlowski for @Telegraph, featuring @digi_ad and findings by the Emotional AI Lab.

https://t.co/QqT0rw86La

[Andrew McStay @digi_ad]

A little piece from me on automated empathy for Technology and Society: the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (@IEEESSIT). Enjoy!

https://t.co/aNYMueVm6U

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

https://t.co/qlb9xxDRcc

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

This is on our reading list too! The deceptive manipulation of people's emotions across social media platforms (currently the most prevalent of 'emotional AI' companies) has profound policy implications. Our MRes Digital Futures & Governance students shall reflect upon this.

[The Emotional AI Lab @EmotionalAI]

It's going to be fascinating to see how this plays out and what joined-up looks like, perhaps esp. in post-Brexit context. https://t.co/y5lbY9ldxB

[MRes Digital Futures and Governance @MAD_Futures]

Settling down now to read the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age 2020.

https://t.co/PUtfMrRlOp