Dear Colleagues, Greetings! Casey Fiedler will give the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture in the 2025 International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference on Saturday, June 14, 3 pm to 4:30 pm, at Hyatt Regency Denver, in Denver, CO. The title of Fiedler’s lecture is "The Internet is Good for You. The Internet is Bad for You." Fiedler notes that hardly a week passes without a new ethical controversy centering on our lives online: privacy violations, trolling and harassment, misinformation, negative impacts on mental health. Fiedler indicates that discussions around these topics often come with calls for drastic technical or policy solutions, like age gating social media or even wholesale platform bans. However, Fiedler argues, though instigating incidents make splashy headlines, the perceived underlying problems are rarely so straightforward. Fiedler advises that anonymity online allows harassment to flourish, but also provides access to important support spaces, especially for stigmatized topics. Fiedler suggests that social media recommendation algorithms can “know” us so well that it feels simultaneously invasive and validating. Fiedler argues that platforms can also help us find community—or push our content to the people who would hate it most. Fiedler notes that social media is bad for us, and social media is good for us; both of these things can be true at the same time, and both tend to be amplified in the case of marginalized groups. This talk takes a journey through the good and bad of people’s online experiences, from queer fan fiction writers to Black Twitter to professional content creators to health support communities, and poses the ethical question: How can we get less of the bad without sacrificing the good? Casey Fiesler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science (as well as Computer Science, by courtesy) at CU Boulder, with additional affiliations with Silicon Flatirons at the law school and the ATLAS Institute. She completed her PhD in Human-Centered Computing in the school of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where her dissertation focused on the role that copyright law plays in online creative communities. She primarily researches and teaches technology ethics and law, and online communities. Current areas of focus include big data research ethics, ethics education, ethical speculation in technology design, content moderation and social media policy, technology empowerment for marginalized communities, and broadening participation in computing; much of this work is supported by the National Science Foundation (including a CAREER grant), Mozilla, and Omidyar. Her research is frequently covered in the media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, and Teen Vogue. She and her students conduct research under the umbrella of the Internet Rules Lab. Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series, established by Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (CCCSIR, www.cccsir.com) in 2003, brings leading Internet researchers to annual ICA conferences to promote the development and interest of Internet research. With the interdisciplinary nature of Internet research, the lecture series brings researchers from various disciplines as well as industry leaders to establish dialogues with communication researchers about topics and issues of Internet research. The theme of Steve Jones Lecture Series is " The Internet as Culture.” For more information about this lecture and lecture series please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen@uni.edu.