POSTPONED: Center for Critical Internet Inquiry 2024 Spring Symposium
See the full schedule here.
Featuring an opening Keynote address by Dr. Kate Starbird
Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering
Director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory
Co-Founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public
and featuring a closing Keynote address by Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
Parity Consulting
Responsible AI Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Research Affiliate at the Minderoo Center for Democracy and Technology, Cambridge University
Visiting Researcher, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
About the Symposium
Over the past two decades, the Internet has transformed from a tool used by motivated
hobbyists, researchers and scientists into a vital source of information, entertainment, work
activity, social and political engagement for the general public. Increasingly, a loose archipelago
of privatized content islands compete for the public’s attention and trust, spreading material at
a scale and speed heretofore unimaginable. Even as lawmakers, civil society advocates and
activists take aim at the human rights implications of unchecked power and the outsized impact
of a handful of companies, we continue to see increased threats to labor rights and autonomy
across multiple sectors, rampant racist, misogynistic, transphobic and homophobic hate
speech, and the entrenchment of global power imbalances. This symposium brings together
exciting and challenging work from an interdisciplinary community of scholars poised to move
the conversation forward.
About UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) is a critical internet studies
community committed to reimagining technology, championing social justice, and strengthening
human rights through research, culture, and public policy.
