Knight First Amendment Inst.Join us on April 28-29 for "Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society" – an event curated w/ @randomwalker exploring how online amplification works, what can be done to mitigate the harms and take advantage of the benefits. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/optimizing-for-what-algorithmic-amplification-and-society-tickets-558764247907
We're thrilled to welcome Alondra Nelson as the symposium's keynote speaker. Alondra is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and former deputy assistant to President Biden, where she served as principal deputy director for Science and Society and acting director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.
PANEL 1: Level Setting
With @tarleton at Microsoft Research New England, Daphne Keller at Stanford Law School, @KLdivergence at UChicago Data Science Institute, and moderator @randomwalker.
PANEL 2: Audits
With @williambrady at Northwestern University, Fabian Baumann at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Smitha Milli at Cornell Tech, Inioluwa Deborah Raji at UC Berkeley, and moderator @whiskeyocelot at Cybersecurity for Democracy.
PANEL 3: Normative Questions
With @anniedorsen, @benlaufer at Cornell Tech, @sethlazar at Australian National University, and moderator @kgb.
PANEL 4: Reform (Part 1)
With @__lucab at UC Berkeley, @riyer at Psychology of Technology Institute, @yoyoel at UC Berkeley, and moderator Camille Francois at Columbia University.
Visualizing Virality with the Brown Institute
Columbia undergrad Samia Menon and graduate student Sahil Patel will present a data visualization demonstrating why a Tweet does or does not go viral through processes like user re-sharing and algorithmic demotion.
PANEL 5: Empirical Look at User Behavior
With Jason Burton at Copenhagen Business School & Max Planck Institute for Human Development, @kjfeng at University of Washington, Benjamin Kaiser at Princeton, and Angela Lai at New York University.
PANEL 6: Reform (Part 2)
With Georgina Born at University College London,
@aliossandro at BBC Product Group, and @lukethorburn at King's College London.
Learn more about our great speakers, read their paper abstracts, and register to join in-person or online here: https://knightcolumbia.org/events/optimizing-for-what-algorithmic-amplification-and-society
