The Voyage of Digitality and Internet: Recent Episodes
Voyage of Digitality
In this episode, Oğuz Alyanak, postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute's Fairwork project, and I talked about the challenges in the gig economy. With examples such as the Gorillas Workers Collective (Berlin), we explored how community activism can drive us towards a fairer gig economy. Lastly, we discussed how researchers and consumers can participate action-oriented initiatives such as Fairwork as activists.
In the second part of A Technosocial Newsroom,Tomás Dodds, Assistant Professor in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University, and I talked about how the implementation of Instant Messaging (IM) software transforms the nature of newsrooms and how IM software. Using WhatsApp as an illustration, this episode explores how IM software can offer smaller newsrooms gain competitive advantage but at the same time blur journalists professional and personal relationships.
In the first part of A Technosocial Newsroom, Tomás Dodds, Assistant Professor in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University, and I talked about how technologies and platforms are transforming hierarchies in the newsroom and journalists' role perceptions. Taking the Estallido Social as an example, we discussed how technologies can help ordinary citizens, just like you and me, complement what traditional media fail to do during social unrests.
In the part 2 of The Laws and the Lawyers in the world of Technology and Innovation, Ljubiša Metikoš, PhD legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) and Human(e)AI, and I discussed how algorithms are implemented and envisioned in the judiciary system. We also looked into the loopholes of the EU AI Act and how we can learn from the United States' Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and potential Beijing Effects on the EU's tech regulations.
In the part 1 of The Laws and the Lawyers in the world of Technology and Innovation, Ljubiša Metikoš, PhD legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) and Human(e)AI, and I discussed the prospects, significance and challenges of legal research within the field of technology and innovation.
In the very first episode of Voyage of Digitality, we talk about the challenges and prospects of open knowledge on the Internet.
Our guest Savvina Daniil, a PhD student at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands, will share her research about book recommender system and the hidden biases behind these seemingly perfect AI technologies.
An introduction of the podcast series of the multimedia project - Voyage of Digitality and the Internet.