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WEBCAST TODAY: ISOC-NY TV – Creating a Broadband Bill of Rights for NYC
by Joly MacFie 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Edited version of a brainstorming session last Sunday ISOC Live posted: "On Saturday 13 March 2021 at 6pm-7pm IST (12:30-13:30 UTC) the Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group (ISOC RD SIG) presents a webinar ‘Problems around accessing Internet in Rural communities: Zimbabwe and Africa Context‘ featuring Ms. " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nycbroadband>On *Wednesday March 17 2021*, the *ISOC-NY TV show <https://isoc-ny.org/p2/tag/isoc-ny-tv>* presents ‘*Creating a Broadband Bill of Rights for NYC <https://2021.open-data.nyc/#details1902>*‘ an NYC Open Data Week workshop where *Community Tech NY <https://communitytechny.org/>* invited all comers to share their vision of a more equitable, holistically healthy digital ecosystem for New York City. The workshop was ably facilitated by *Claudina Sarahe (cs)* of *Composites Collective <https://compositescollective.com/>.* *What: ISOC-NY TV – Creating a Broadband Bill of Rights for NYCWhere: Manhattan Neighborhood NetworkWhen: Wednesday March 17 2021 2pm-3pm EDT | 18:00-19:00 UTCManhattan Cable: SPECTRUM 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel <http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nycbroadband <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nycbroadband>* *TWITTER: @isocny #opendataweek @BetaNYC @itsmisscs @gretabyrum* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live>* *https://youtu.be/vaCXEh2Bk6Q <https://youtu.be/vaCXEh2Bk6Q>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/nycbroadband <https://archive.org/details/nycbroadband>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13871/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Special issue on AI Ethics and Regulation
by Mihály Héder 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Hi and apologies for cross-posting, CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue: *AI ethics and regulation: A practitioner's point of view* Important dates Article Submission Due *15th May, 2021 * Author Notification *25th June, 2021 * Revised Article Due *31th July, 2021 * Publication *Q3 2021 * InfTars is a *Web of Science SSCI* and *Scopus*-indexed journal. The journal calls for papers requesting constructive criticism of the AI ethics guidelines landscape. Practitioners in the broad sense – the people involved in developing such guidelines, regulators and AI developers – are especially welcome to submit to this issue. Both theoretical and empirical works are welcome. Some particular topics of interest include: - AI ethics guidelines uptake in real-life projects; - Connection of the field of Applied Ethics (in moral theory) to AI Ethics; - “What’s new?” Discussion of the similarities and differences between AI ethics guidelines and other recent professional ethics (such as nanoethics and bioethics); - Methodological concerns of compiling AI ethics guidelines; - AI and privacy: real-life challenges; - “The devil is in the detail!” Issues with particular details of AI ethics guidelines; - Challenges of producing and implementing AI ethics guidelines from a practitioner’s point of view. *Conversation starters* - Hagendorff, T. “The ethics of AI ethics: An evaluation of guidelines.” Minds and Machines 30 (2020): 99-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09517-8 - Héder, M. “A Criticism of AI Ethics Guidelines.” Információs Társadalom 20, no 4. (2020) https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.XX.2020.4.5 - Zerilli, J., Knott, A., Maclaurin, J. et al. “Transparency in Algorithmic and Human Decision-Making: Is There a Double Standard?” Philosophy and Technology 32 (2019): 661–683. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-018-0330-6 Cheers Mihály Héder

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Free Webinar: Twitter derived measures of sentiment towards minorities & associations with adverse birth outcomes & cardiovascular disease
by KARAMI, AMIR 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

The social media core of UofSC Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC) will host an invited speaker who is a faculty at UMD and was awarded NIH grants on utilizing social media for health. Title: Twitter derived measures of sentiment towards minorities & associations with adverse birth outcomes & cardiovascular disease Mar 24, 11 am - 12:30 pm Register at https://bit.ly/2MXtbWZ [https://attachments.office.net/owa/KARAMI%40mailbox.sc.edu/service.svc/s/Ge…] -- Warm Wishes, Amir Karami, PhD Assistant Professor, UofSC School of Information Science<https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/faculty-staff/karami_amir.php> Social Media Core Director, Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC<https://bigdata.sc.edu/social-media-core/>) Faculty Associate, South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality<https://chq.sc.edu/> Chair-Elect, SIG-Social Media<https://www.asist.org/sig/sigsm/team/> Website<https://sites.google.com/site/karamihomepage/> \ LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-karami-16690019> \ Twitter<https://twitter.com/karami_amir> \ GitHub<https://github.com/amir-karami> He/Him/His<https://www.mypronouns.org/he-him>

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WEBCAST TODAY: #EURALO Round Table: Internet Governance – EUROPE vs the rest of the world
by Joly MacFie 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Match of the day! ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday, 16 March 2021 at 19:00-20:30 UTC the European Regional At-Large Organization (EURALO) hosts a roundtable 'Internet Governance - EUROPE vs the rest of the world' which will include a keynote 'Digital Cacaphony in a Splintering Cyberspace' from " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralo3>On *Tuesday, 16 March 2021* at *19:00-20:30 UTC* the *European Regional At-Large Organization <https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/euralo>* (EURALO) hosts a roundtable '*Internet Governance - EUROPE vs the rest of the world* <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=159482474>' which will include a keynote '*Digital Cacaphony in a Splintering Cyberspace <https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210108-internet-governance-outlook-2021-di…>*' from *Wolfgang Kleinwächter*. *HOST Sébastien Bacholle*t, EURALO Chair *GUEST SPEAKER* *Wolfgang Kleinwächter*, Professor Emeritus from the University of Aarhus *PANEL* *Fiona Alexander*, American University *Richard Hill*, President, Association for Proper Internet Governance *Lucien Castex*, AFNIC *MODERATOR* *Olivier Crépin-Leblond*, ISOC UK England *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralo3 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralo3>* *AGENDA https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=159482474 <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=159482474>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM http://bit.ly/30OnKgA <http://bit.ly/30OnKgA>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/2OvwNR1 <https://bit.ly/2OvwNR1>* *TWITTER #euralo <https://bit.ly/3lksioj> @icann Wolfgang Kleinwächter @fionamalexander Richard Hill @Olivier_CL @SebBach* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/euralo3 <https://archive.org/details/euralo3>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13865/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Instances of concealing previous ownership of domain name?
by Greenhalgh, Spencer P. 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Hello internet research friends and colleagues, As part of an ongoing research project, I've stumbled onto a case where the current owner of a domain appears to have requested that Wayback Machine captures of the domain name under the previous ownership be removed from the Internet Archive—presumably because the new owner doesn't want to be associated with the old owner or to be seen as having purchased the domain from them. Are any of you aware of cases of this happening? I didn't know that it was even a thing and am trying to get some context for what might be happening here. Self-promotion and tangentially-related resources are more than welcome. Best, Spencer ------ Spencer Greenhalgh, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Science College of Communication and Information University of Kentucky pronouns: http://pronoun.is/he/him/his website: spencergreenhalgh.com Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/my/greenhalgh

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Call for Papers- Platform Governance by Competing Systems of Political Economy: The US and China
by Yik Chan Chin 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Platform Governance by Competing Systems of Political Economy: The US and China Conference co-organizers: ● Dr. Milton Mueller, Internet Governance Project, Georgia Institute of Technology; ● Dr. Yik-Chan Chin, School of Journalism and Communication & Internet Institute, Beijing Normal University Online: Beijing&Atlanta June 23-25 2021 Deadline for abstract submission: April 15 2021 The purpose of this conference is to compare and contrast the American and Chinese systems of platform governance. Participants will include experts in platform businesses and infrastructure as well as academics specializing in communication-information policy and law, internet governance, international relations, privacy and cybersecurity policy. Recognizing that the digital economy is highly globalized, the conference will also analyze US-China transnational interactions in the platform economy. This includes those elements of trade policy, cybersecurity, finance and capital investment regulation that affect the operation and regulation of platforms. The term platform governance refers to the rules, practices, and design decisions used to influence the way multi-sided markets or information intermediaries manage users, data and content. We do not look at platform governance issues in isolation, but consider them to be expressions of two different systems of political economy. The US and China have the two largest and most innovative internet economies, but there are major differences between their political systems, economies, foreign policies and approaches to international law and global governance. Some observers believe that the US and Chinese systems of political economy are incompatible, and cannot cooperate but can only conflict. The belief in incompatibility may be true or it may be based in ignorance. There is very little empirical comparative analysis of US and Chinese platform governance. If we look, we may find as many similarities as differences. When there are notable differences, it is also important to understand what has created these differences and to assess the degree to which they really do lead to incompatibility or conflict. This conference is intended to allow Western and Chinese scholars and experts to conduct a dispassionate and objective comparative analysis of each other’s platform governance regimes. The virtual conference will take place June 23-25, 2021. We invite 800-1000 word abstracts on any of the topics listed below by April 15. Submissions in English and Chinese will be considered. We intend to offer simultaneous translation of paper presentations. Send emails by April 15 to us-china-conference(a)internetgovernance.org All submissions should be focused on comparative analysis. It is our intention to do a special issue of a journal for selected papers presented in the conference. For enquiry about the conference, please email: yik-chan.chin(a)bnu.edu.cn or us-china-conference(a)internetgovernance.org ● Placing platforms in their political-economic context Both the US and China have economic systems that could be characterized as “capitalist” and/or market-driven. China relies more on state- owned enterprises and state direction. The U.S. has a more powerful private sector and a more autonomous civil society. The differences of their political systems, however, are profound, with a single party playing a leading role in China and the US having institutionalized competition between two parties. ○ How do the social, economic and political role of platforms differ in the US and China? ○ What are the government regulatory institutions involved in governing platforms in the US and China? What determines the roles of government and the platforms themselves in governance? ○ How does the presence or absence of competition between political parties affect political communication and economic policy? ○ How do the US and Chinese governments handle the problems of transnational and extraterritorial jurisdiction in platform governance? ● Social media, politics and content governance ○ What are the principles and mechanisms underlying content management in the US and China? ○ What are the liability frameworks for platforms in the US and China? If Section 230 immunities are a critical factor in the American approach, would amending or ending those immunities make American social media more or less like China’s? ○ When American social media platforms restrict so called “coordinated inauthentic behavior” from China, what is the role of the US government? How does it compare to China's efforts to restrict foreign information services’ access to Chinese citizens? ○ What kind of coordination of content governance is taking place among national governments, and the platforms themselves? Does this coordination embrace Western and Chinese platforms, or only Western ones? ● Cybersecurity and privacy ○ How do US and Chinese standards, national policies and laws regarding end to end encryption by platforms compare with each other? What are the similarities? What are the differences? ○ How does US-China cyber conflict - defined as inter-state rivalry using cyberspace for espionage - affect each country’s policies towards platforms? Is the economic success of each country’s platforms seen as a strength, a vulnerability, or a risk? ○ What role do alleged or real cybersecurity risks play in opening or closing each country’s cloud market? ○ How do US and Chinese efforts to create national policies and laws regarding data privacy compare to one another? How do they intersect with other policy regimes governing data privacy transnationally? ● Platform agglomeration economies and regulation. Digital platforms are expanding into multiple areas, including app stores, digital payments, lending, e-commerce, food services and possibly even cryptocurrencies. ○ Is the number of platforms in China and the US increasing or decreasing? How concentrated are US and Chinese platform markets? Which one is more concentrated? ○ How do the paths toward agglomeration in the US and China differ? ○ How are competition policy authorities in the US and China reacting to the growth of platforms? What methods are used by the regulators to measure market power or abuse of dominance? ○ Would competition from US platforms entering China’s markets help Chinese consumers? Would competition from Chinese platforms entering US markets help American consumers? ○ How do American platforms’ positions in payment systems compare to Chinese ones? ○ How have the financial system and the policies of financial regulators in the US and China been affected by the rise of platforms, how do they react? --------- Dr. Yik Chan Chin Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication Beijing Normal University Beijing, P. R. China Email: yik-chan.chin(a)bnu.edu.cn https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yik_Chan_Chin http://ssrn.com/author=1377946

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#RecruitMeNot - Student/researcher solidarity with Timnit Gebru
by Peaks Krafft 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

No Tech For Tyrants, a grassroots student-led tech justice advocacy group, has put out a call to show solidarity with Timnit Gebru by pledging not to work for Google until the demands of the Google Walkout for Real Change are met: * That Google meet with the Ethical AI team to explain the process by which the paper was unilaterally rejected by leadership. * Transparency to the broader public, including Google users and our colleagues in the academic community, about Google leadership’s decisions * Providing clear guidelines on how research will be reviewed and how research integrity will be respected within Google Over 500 students and researchers have already signed! Sign the pledge! change.org/recruitmenot <http://change.org/recruitmenot> Please share with students and researchers. And share the pledge on Twitter!<https://twitter.com/NoTech4Tyrants/status/1371478379229278213> #RecruitMeNot Cheers, Peaks (they/them<https://pronoun.is/they/>) — P. M. Krafft, PhD Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet…> (accepting applications for 2021!) University of Arts London Creative Computing Institute This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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CfP - Opting Out of Pandemic Digitalities: Digital Disengagement and Covid-19
by Adi Kuntsman 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

***Opting Out of Pandemic Digitalities: DigitalDisengagement and Covid-19*** Edited by Adi Kuntsman, Sam Martin and EsperanzaMiyake Under consideration by Bristol University Press Call for Contributions Emerging from the concept of “digital disengagement” – aframework developed by the editors to examine digital media from the point ofdisconnection, refusal, and opting out –this book brings into interdisciplinary dialogue two critical key areas ofconcern in the context of COVID-19. The first one is what we call “pandemicdigitalities” – the rapid and extensive increase, reliance and shifts inmeaning of digital technologies in the age of COVID-19 and post-COVIDfuturities across various spheres in science, technology and society: frompublic health, to education, to politics, to everyday life. The second concernsthe politics of refusal, the right and even the viability to opt out of digitaltechnologies, networks, tracing surveillance, and databases. At this unique moment in time, both have global spreadand significance: the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every society globally; sodo digital technologies and networked communication. Crucially, “global” shouldnot be mistaken for “universal” – while both the virus and digital technologiesare spread around the world, their adoption, use and impact are profoundlydifferent both across, and within different countries, societies andcommunities. Within the growing field of Disconnection Studies, research onopting out and digital refusal has focused almost exclusively on “theWest”/“global North”. To this date, no literature addresses in great depth theimplications, consequences and (im)possibilities of opt out in the quicklychanging digital landscape and lived realities of the COVID-19 pandemic whichhas forced a rapid and sudden digitisation in times of crisis. Taking a critical global perspective, this timely editedcollection thus has two key aims: firstly, to explore digital disengagement andopt out through the lens of the global pandemic; and secondly, to explorepandemic digitalities through the critical perspective of digitaldisengagement. As we are arguing elsewhere, digital disengagement is acontinuum, rather than a dichotomy, containing a range of individual andinstitutional practices, legal frameworks, and technologies, as well as degreesof disengagement that shrink and expand elastically across time and space. Anddigital disengagement is also a matter of justice, operating within andvis-à-vis political forces and forms of structural injustice. How do thesetimes and spaces of digital disengagement open and close in the era of COVID-19and post-COVID futurities? What does digital justice look like at the time ofthe pandemic? Looking at digital disengagement through the lens ofCOVID-19 and at the pandemic through the lens of the pandemic, we invitecontributions that would take a variety of perspectives: legal, social,cultural, political, and economic. We seek contributions that address, but arenot limited to, the following in the context of digital disengagement and thepandemic: • Inequalities (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, class,ability) • Individual versus collective concerns (e.g. individual data rightsversus collective data justice, individual freedoms versus social responsibility,collective good or herd needs) • Health and wellbeing (e.g. Zoom fatigue, LongCovid, lockdown) • Digital economies • Key workers, home-schooling and digitallabour • Spaces, times (e.g. lockdown, social-distancing) • Increasedsurveillance (e.g. track-and-trace, digital health apps, WFH/remote working) •New spaces of digital disengagement • Environment (e.g. extractive economies,regeneration and sustainability) • Social Media (e.g. misinformation and fakenews, media saturation) Format: contributions of up to 5,000 words length, in avariety of formats (creative and academic, autoethnographic, reports, criticalcommentary and more). ***SUBMISSION INFO*** Please send a 500 words abstract to digitaldisengagementproject(a)gmail.com by May 10th 2021. Authors will be notified byMay 31st, with full submissions due by end of December 2021. Dr Adi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics Programme Leader, MA in International Relations and Global Communications Coordinator, PhD pathway in Digital Politics Department of Politics | Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building| Manchester | M15 6LL| Web| Online office hours (term time only): Thursday 1-2pm and Friday 4-5pm on Teams (chat or call). Latest publications: --“Reverberation,Affect and Digital Politics of Responsibility”, in Boler and Davis, AffectivePolitics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means, Routledge. --“Environmentalmedia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic”, rapid response special issue of Journal of Environmental Media (co-edited with Becky Alexis-Martin and Liu Xin) | | | | | | | | | | | Journal of Environmental Media: Ingenta Connect Table Of Contents | | |

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JoCTEC Fall 2021 CFP
by Plothe, Theo 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Journal of Communication Technology Call for Proposals Fall 2021 Issue The Journal of Communication Technology (ISSN 2694-3883), the official journal of the Communication Technology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce a Call For Papers for the Fall 2021 issue to be released in October/November 2021. JoCTEC welcomes scholarship from a broad area of inquiry, with the expressed mission to bring together research that facilitates discussion and cultivates understanding of the ways in which communication technologies are changing not only media processes and content, but also audiences, institutions, and society at large. We ask for submissions with a particular focus that pertains to communication technologies, this includes but is not limited to studies of advertising, science, networks, health, politics, history, policy, public relations, management, economics, ethics, minorities, visual communication, and social media. JoCTEC is not limited to a particular theoretical and methodological perspective. We welcome research that informs debates from comparative empirical perspectives and more conceptual and theoretical approaches. What remains at the forefront for our journal is that scholarship is systematic and rigorous concerning communication technologies and their impacts, no matter the disciplinary precision of the inquiry. While we will still consider article submissions on a rolling basis for regular issues, to receive full consideration for the Fall 2021 issue, we have set a July 1, 2021 deadline. Please find submission guidelines and information below. Guideline for Paper Submission: Submissions should follow the manuscript guidelines for JoCTEC. • Prepare the manuscript using APA (7th ed) citation style, with text of no more than 9,000 words (inclusive of abstract, figures/tables, and references). • Submit the manuscript in Word format with all author-identifying information omitted to allow for blind peer review. • Confirm manuscript is not before another journal for consideration, and that the manuscript has not been previously published, including in a language other than English. • The submission deadline is July 1, 2021. Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University

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Call for Papers: Genealogies of Data Junior Scholars Workshop
by Alex Hanna 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

The Genealogies of Data Research Group is calling for original works-in-progress from junior scholars (defined as pre-PhD or having received a PhD after 2017) to present and discuss at a Junior Scholar Symposium on May 24, 2021. We are looking for papers that interrogate the ethical and political modes of data construction, broadly defined, within computational sciences. We hope to bring together researchers working on data histories, data infrastructures, data (after)lives, and related narratives, as well as their implications for AI and data-driven forms of development. This workshop seeks to engage with researchers across multiple disciplines, including machine learning-oriented researchers in computer vision and natural language processing, social science-oriented researchers in the history of science, sociology of knowledge and science, anthropologists of technology, social and political theorists, law and policy scholars, and civil society actors and activists. The workshop will be structured as an all-day symposium, split into several differently themed sessions. Presenters will give a short talk on their work, and an invited senior scholar will comment on the papers in the themed session. The deadline for submission is April 5, at 11:59 PM PST. We will extend up to 12 invitations at this workshop and notify participants by the end of April. Please remove all identifying information from your original work-in-progress and submit it via this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLdquaSmmJXuynE0amp6hBbpQELdQftTT…>. Manuscripts should contain (1) an abstract of no more than 400 words and (2) a text of a minimum length of approx. 4000 words and a maximum length of approx. 6000 words (the title, abstract, and bibliography are not counted). Presenters will be expected to attend the event in its entirety and will be offered a small honorarium for their time. If you have questions, please direct them to <genealogiesofdata(a)gmail.com>. Our workshop is supported by the UC San Diego Institute for Practical Ethics <https://ipe.ucsd.edu/>, the USF Center for Applied Data Ethics <https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/dataethics/cade-fellows/>, and the UC San Diego International Institute <https://internationalinstitute.ucsd.edu/>. Razvan Amironesei (CADE, USF) Emily Denton (Google Research) Alex Hanna (Google Research) Andrew Smart (Google Research) Hilary Nicole (Google Research) -- Alex Hanna, PhD alex-hanna.com Senior Research Scientist | Google Lecturer | UC Berkeley School of Information

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