AI and the Future of Protest Politics: Politics and Emotions in the Age of Digital Transformation and Surveillance Capitalism
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We are happy to invite to our international workshop “AI and the Future of Protest Politics: Politics and Emotions in the Age of Digital Transformation and Surveillance Capitalism”, a two-day, hybrid event taking place at the Philosophy Department in Bergen, on 30th November (Thursday) and 1st December (Friday) 2023, from 9:00—17:00 (CET).
Our goal is to bring together prominent scholars from different disciplines to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms, and their underlying technological and economic principles, on political discourse and protest.
The event will draw on the Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures—an international research network among the ‘Culture, Society & Politics’ and the ‘Practical Philosophy’ research groups at UiB’s Philosophy Department, the MediaFutures Research Centre Bergen, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, and the MIT Program Human Rights and Technology.
This project is Co-lead by Professor Franz Knappik (Bergen) and Dr. Christopher Senf (Bergen) as well Professor Christoph Trattner (MediaFutures) and Professor Nir Eisikovist (UMass).
Confirmed speakers:
Keynote: Herman Cappelen (Hong Kong, AI & Humanity Lab)
Rosalie Waelen (Twente)
Katharine Browne and Sebastian Watzl (Oslo, GoodAttention ERC Research Project)
James Wilson Williams (Copenhagen)
Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna)
Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston)
Kjetil Rommetveit (UiB)
Torgeir Uberg Nærland (UiB)
More news follows soon. Stay tuned!
