Talks & Events
The End of Digital Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Digital technologies were supposed to help strengthen democracy around the world, not threaten them. In this talk, Professor Gina Neff of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge will look back on the optimism about digital...
Broadband as a Utility – Roundtable Discussion
TIPI's Dr. Sharon Strover recently joined Professor Sherri Greenberg and Dr. Kenneth Flamm for a conversation on broadband as a utility in Texas with Dr. Art Markman and the IC² Institute.
First Annual Symposium of Good Systems—A UT Grand Challenge
2020-10-19, 2:00p - 4:00p From Good Systems: Join us as we examine how our grand challenge work to date has brought us closer to our mission of designing ethical AI technologies, as well as what steps we need to take going forward. The symposium has both live...
Antiracist Tech Club (ART Club) seeks new futures for our engagement with technology
If you're interested in data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and creating new futures for our engagement with technology, you're in the right place. We're an interdisciplinary group of librarians, information scholars, and humanities students. The Antiracist Tech...
Shiny Things Workshop
2020-02-21 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. There is so much buzz about artificial intelligence, but what’s real and what’s fiction? In this hands-on session about AI’s effects on science and society, Harvard researcher and artist Sarah Newman will help us explore...
Disinformation Group Meeting
12:00 p.m. in FAC 402 As part of our Good Systems work, Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement, Mary Neuburger, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Sharon Strover proposed to host monthly “Disinformation Network” meetings to...
The Grand Challenge of Ethics and AI: A Fireside Chat with Tim Hwang
2019-10-07 3 p.m. Good Systems is hosting a fireside chat with Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, and Professor Sharon Strover from the Moody College of Communication. Dubbed “The Busiest Man on...
Addressing the Next Wave of Computational Propaganda with Sam Woolley
Guest writer and UT Austin Journalism undergradutate, Emily Brown On Friday, Sept. 2o, Samuel Woolley, a leading researcher in the intersection of politics and technology, gave a lunch-time lecture regarding the dangers of computational propaganda. “We need to...
Brown Bag Lunch with Sam Woolley
2019-09-20, 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Lady Bird Johnson Room, CMA 5.136 Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute as we host Samuel C. Woolley, Assistant Professor in the Journalism School at the Moody College of Communication. Professor Woolley will present...
TIPI Brown Bag Lunch Featuring RTF & Journalism Doctoral Student Presentations
2019-06-03, 11:30 a.m., CMB 3.112 Join us for a special brown bag lunch featuring RTF & Journalism doctoral student presentations. Richelle Crotty & Alexis Schrubbe: A Band-Aid on the Digital Divide: Investigating Mobile Beacon and Library Mobile Hotspot...