AI, EXTREME SPEECH AND DISINFORMATION: GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND THE WAY AHEAD News 26-27 July 2021 Venue: Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich Team AI4Dignity is organizing a two-day collaborative coding event with fact checkers, AI developers and academic researchers to improve machine learning models to flag and label online extreme speech Also featuring Public plenary and panels How can AI assisted […]
KEYNOTE TALK: DIGITAL TRUTH-MAKING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Events News At the international conference, “Digital Truth-Making: Ethnographic Perspectives on Practices, Infrastructures and Affordances of Truth-Making in Digital Societies”, organised by Christoph Bariether at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Sahana Udupa will give the keynote talk on decolonial approaches to online incivility and extreme speech.
EASA PANEL ON ENGAGED MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY Events News With Philipp Budka (University of Vienna), Sahana Udupa has convened the media anthropology network panel on “engaged media anthropology”, at the European Association for Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference 2020, Lisbon, Portugal. Short abstract of the panel: What forms of engaged media anthropology have emerged in the […]
DIGITAL DIGNITY: EXPLORATIONS IN RELIGIOUS POLITICS ONLINE Events Upcoming Events In an invited presentation, Sahana Udupa, Salma Siddique and Max Kramer will build on their ongoing ethnographic fieldwork on online practices among prominent Hindu and Muslim political groups in India and the diaspora in the UK, to explore what it means to image in a […]
KEYNOTE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY: POLITICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOUTH ASIA Events News 20 May 2020 Sahana Udupa is invited to give the keynote address at the international conference on politics of social media in South Asia, organized by David Gellner, Ralph Shroeder and Amogh Sharma. The title of her talk is, “Disinformation, Misinformation […]
KEYNOTE TALK: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION PRECONFERENCE ON DIGITAL SOUTH ASIA Events News 21 May 2020 In the one-day preconference “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Infrastructures, Informationalization” organised by Radhika Parameswarnan, Indiana University, Kalyani Chadha, University of Maryand and Sangeet Kumar, Denison University, at the International Communication Association Annual Conference in Gold Coast, […]
ICA PANEL ON ONLINE EXTREME SPEECH Events News 27 May 2020 At the International Communication Association Annual Conference 2020, Sahana Udupa has organized a panel, “Aggressive Emotion, Precarious Labour and Colonial Continuities: Theoretical Debates on Disinformation and Extreme Speech Online”. The panel contributes to debates around online vitriol and disinformation by advancing theoretical insights […]