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We Need to Talk About Robots: Gender, Datafication and AI
This talk reviews how the acceleration of data infrastructure development and growing adoption of data practices in everyday life are entwined with wider cultural discourses about gender and sexuality. Using artificial intelligence (AI) assistants and social robots such as Alexa and Siri as an example, it analyses these links from a feminist data studies perspective focusing on three key themes. Aristea Fotopoulou is the author of “Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability” (2017, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer) and currently…
Find out more »Dialogue in Agriculture
Together with a diverse range of partners, CABI has been implementing development communication programmes in multiple countries around the world. For the last seven years, we have been implementing the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) project and the Plantwise programme. The programmes have used a combination of intervention approaches and services to increase farmer productivity, resilience and access to markets in over 30 countries. This meeting reflects on the lessons to emerge from that work. The event will bring together…
Find out more »Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural and Political Contexts
This talk is about a recently published book on memes which provides a solid, encompassing definition of internet memes, exploring both the common features of memes around the globe and their particular regional traits. It identifies and explains the roles that these viral texts play in internet communication. It looks at cultural, social and political implications; significance for self-representation and identity formation; promotion of alternative opinion or trending interpretation; and subversive and resistant power in relation to professional media, propaganda,…
Find out more »International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit
The next International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit will be held March 30 through April 3, 2020 in Marrakech, Morocco. The 2020 SBCC Summit will be a space for making new connections and developing partnerships, sharpening cutting-edge insights and advancing innovations in the social and behavior change communication field. Three main themes for the 2020 Summit are: “Catalyzing Transformational Change in Areas of Urgency,” which considers such topics as the climate crisis, health access and equity and humanitarian efforts;…
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