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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding the Attention Economy’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy

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2019-03-04 18:00:00 2019-03-04 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Digital Democracy 101: Understanding the Attention Economy’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy SFU Vancouver Harbour Centre,515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

Monday March 4, 2019
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

SFU Vancouver Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

Discover the unseen forces on digital platforms that can affect what information you see – and what you don’t - in this free lecture by Carl Miller, Research Director at Demos. He'll explain how the ‘attention economy’ can harm democracy March 4, 6 p.m. at the SFU Vancouver Harbour Centre.
About the Event

Discover the unseen forces on digital platforms that can affect what information you see – and what you don’t – in this free lecture by Carl Miller, Research Director at Demos. He’ll explain how the attention economy can harm democracy. The competition for our time and attention by digital platforms, which can often skew what we see and from whom, may leave us without the trusted information we need to make a confident decision in an election.

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This is one of three free public lectures hosted by the Public Policy Forum and its partners that explain how our democracy is affected by the manipulation of information and trust on digital platforms. For details on the other lectures, you can check out our Digital Democracy 101 project page.

Speakers

Carl Jackiere Miller

Carl Jackiere Miller

Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos

Carl is interested in how social media is changing society, and how researching it can inform important decisions. This includes:

  • Digital politics and digital democracy
  • Cybercrime, and the hacking community
  • Cyber-bullying, hate crime, misogyny and abuse online
  • Information warfare and online disinformation
  • ‘Fake news’, digital and citizen journalism
  • Automated decision-making, Internet governance and digital addiction
  •  Building new methods and technology to study social media data

He researches and writes widely on these issues, including for Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London.

His first book is The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab. An examination of the new centres of power and control in the twenty-first century, it was published by Penguin RandomHouse in August 2018.

Carl’s website is  www.carlmiller.co

Twitter: @carljackmiller

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Moderator

Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Wendy is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011), Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016), and co-author of Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota + Meson Press 2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and she has held fellowships from: the Guggenheim, ACLS, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has been a Visiting Professor at AI Now at NYU, the Velux Visiting Professor of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School; the Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon, Visiting Professor at Leuphana University (Luneburg, Germany), and a Visiting Associate Professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard, of which she is an Associate.

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