I was on Monocle Radio this morning to discuss Google and Meta’s decision to block local news for Canadian users.
Monocle Radio appearance
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*New publication* The Internet’s Town Square? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Parler’s “Past Imaginary”
With Cindy Ma, we have a new paper published in Social Media + Society. In it we explore efforts to publicly portray the fringe social media platform Parler as “the internet’s town square”, in stark contrast to the reality of the platform.
skeptechs 5.8: Apple in your eye, with Emmie Hine
Emmie Hine joins us for the latest episode of skeptechs, where we discuss the ethics and human rights of extended reality against the backdrop of Apple’s Vision Pro headset.
Successful PhD defence
I’m delighted to say that earlier today I successfully defended my PhD (DPhil) thesis at the Oxford Internet Institute.
The thesis is titled “The responsible governance of hate speech in app stores: The case of Parler” and my examiners were Professors Vicki Nash and Matthias Kettemann.
I’m extremely grateful to the enormous number of people who helped me get this far, including my supervisors Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo, my funder the Alan Turing Institute, colleagues, friends, and family.
skeptechs 5.4: Applying data science for health, with Ben Goldacre and Nick De Vito
In the latest episode of skeptechs we were delighted to be joined by Ben Goldacre and Nick De Vito of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, exploring how they develops tools and platforms to enable safe health analyses and promote open science.
Monocle 24 appearance
I was back on Monocle 24’s The Globalist show this morning for another tech round-up, this time covering the legal liability of online platforms for dangerous content, and the launch of Meta’s “verified” product.
skeptechs 5.3: Digital democracy, with Prathm Juneja
In the latest episode of skeptechs, Nayana and I talk to friend and colleague Prathm Juneja about his work on the use of the internet in electoral campaigning and government.
Monocle 24 appearance
I was back on Monocle 24 this morning discussing the rise of “eco-thrillers” and how they shape public awareness of the climate crisis.
skeptechs 5.2: Chatting GPT
We have a new episode of skeptechs out, covering Chat GPT, layoffs in tech, and controversy over the removal of a documentary from the Indian web.
skeptechs 5.1: The platform economy and podcasting
We kicked off the new season of skeptechs with an interview with members of the OII’s Fairwork project—listen here!
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