Join the lecture on Postmortem Privacy with prof Anita Allen on May 21, 2024 in Spui25 Amsterdam.

For more info: spui25.nl/programma/post…

Exciting day! Today the festive opening event of AlgoSoc is taking place at KNAW Trippenhuis where Prof Lina Dencik delivered her Keynote ‘Optimising or displacing the welfare state? Infrastructural power in an age of datafication.’✨ #AlgoSoc #Datafication

Verandert AI de democratie? Over dit mooie onderwerp mocht ik een lezing houden voor Studium Generale UU En je kunt deze nog bekijken: sg.uu.nl/video/2023/11/…

📢 Dive into the future of information law with the IViR Science Fiction & Information Law Essay Competition IViR. Share your vision in a short story and explore the evolving world of AI and law. 🤖👽🚀
Details at: ivir.nl/nl/3rd-ivir-sc…

#AI #InformationLaw #SciFiEssays

On this #TuesdAI , we welcomed PhD and Post-Doc researchers of AlgoSoc's media sector at the AIMD Lab where we had an (academic) speed-dating session to find overlaps in interest and discuss future collaboration. We're grateful for the inspiring session and excited for more!

Get your tickets now and sip on cocktails 🍹while delving into the ChatGPTiffication of our Democracy where NHelberger is @[email protected] talks about the impact of AI on our society, privacy and democracy, exploring the pros & cons of AI developments
🗓️11 Dec TOLHUISTUIN
algosoc.org/events/science…

🎓Exciting news! Sabrina Kutscher, our PhD candidate, has won the thesis prize from the Association for Privacy Law for her outstanding work on data brokers' behavior under GDPR. Congratulations, Sabrina! 🏆 #PrivacyRights #ThesisPrize2023 verenigingprivacyrecht.nl

ALERT👉On 31 Oct., #AlgoSoc 's Dr. Corinne Cath-Speth launches her new book 'Eaten by the Internet' at SPUI25. Interested in power in the contemporary Internet industry? Join her and fellow authors Gurshabad, Dr. Fieke Jansen, Michael Veale and ᗪᖇ. ᑎIEᒪᔕ 🔎📡〰️🗼. See ➡️ shorturl.at/ijzB1

Very proud of AlgoSoc PI Corien, who received the #StevinPrize from outgoing Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf on October 4th for her contribution to the discipline of law and (information) technology, and for helping to bridge the gap between science and policy. Congratulations! 👏

Hoe generatieve AI-systemen te reguleren? De ontwikkeling gaat razendsnel en de belangen van de bedrijven erachter zijn veelal commercieel. Aan de overheid om ze in toom te houden, adviseert AlgoSoc PI José van Dijck het ministerie van EZK 👉shorturl.at/fiDEV

AlgoSoc co-director Claes de Vreese UvA Amsterdam gives the opening keynote at the Dubrovnik Media Days: The AI (r)evolution in communication.

Persoonlijk nieuws:
NWO kent Vidi-subsidie toe aan AlgoSoc collega Johan Wolswinkel voor zijn onderzoek: Besluitvorming in tijden van een open overheid: van ‘regeltransparantie’ naar ‘zaaktransparantie’.
Namens AlgoSoc gefeliciteerd!
tilburguniversity.edu/nl/actueel/nie…

As they say, some ✨personal news✨:

I’m delighted to be making beautiful Amsterdam my new home!🏠

I'll be joining AlgoSoc alongside NHelberger is @[email protected] Claes de Vreese and theo araujo | @[email protected] as a postdoc researcher, working on algorithms, media, and public opinion at UvA Amsterdam!

This is such wonderful news. theo araujo | @[email protected] is an eminent scholar, wonderful mentor and director of ASCoR | @[email protected]. Congratulations 🎉

UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag UvA Amsterdam AlgoSoc, we are lucky to have you as a colleague.

Some personal news!

After two wonderful years teaching in the Media and Culture BA, I'm really happy to announce that this coming September I'll be starting my PhD as part of the AlgoSoc consortium, under the supervision of Thomas Poell | @[email protected], Natali Helberger and José van Dijck.

De discussie over de gevaren van AI wordt gekaapt door AI-ontwikkelaars en bedrijven die daarvan financieel profiteren. De focus moet liggen op bestaande gevaren van AI voor mens en planeet, niet op superintelligentie, vindt AlgoSoc researcher Roel Dobbe @[email protected]
algosoc.org/results/ai-ind…

How will artificial intelligence impact the field of political communication? #AlgoSoc scientific co-director Claes de Vreese with Fabio Votta📊🐧 highlights some of the substantive areas that #AI might affect and discusses critical ethical questions ➡️algosoc.org/results/ai-and…

Huge congratulations to our AlgoSoc co-Principal Investigator Corien Prins (@TilburgU and WRR Thinktank) for receiving the prestigious NWO Nieuws Stevin Prize for her research on law and technology and it’s impact on society 🤩🚀👏🏽

Huge congratulations to our AlgoSoc colleague Esther Rozendaal who has been appointed full professor at Erasmus University 🎉

eur.nl/nieuws/esther-…