The May 2024 Internet Democracy Initiative Conference
Northeastern University’s Internet Democracy Initiative (IDI), led by Prof. David Lazer and an interdisciplinary group of university faculty, is a platform for positive change in a socially interconnected world.
About the Conference
In May 2024, the Internet Democracy Initiative will host a Internet and Society Conference at the Northeastern University-London campus. Like the IDI, the conference will focus on the role of the internet in structuring democracy, society, and markets with emphasis on areas that have widespread information and social media implications. Conference sessions will feature academic, industry, and government experts engaging with one another across five thematic areas:
- misinformation,
- media narratives,
- cyber governance and cyber resilience,
- AI governance and regulations, and
- data access and ethics.
The goal of the conference is to further collaborations that can bring about the types of changes that the IDI imagines. Across the sessions, speakers and participants will be asked to consider mechanisms to ensure that historically excluded voices are represented, amplified, and considered in data structures and decision-making processes.
Dates
May 8–10
Location:
Northeastern University, London
Details:
The conference will feature opening and closing keynote addresses, a plenary panel, and concurrent sessions on Thursday May 9th and Friday May 10th, 2024.
Wednesday May 8th will feature pre-conference workshops where doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars can share their research, and faculty and researchers across the Boston and London campuses will discuss mentoring, grant-writing and identify opportunities for collaboration.
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