"The Personal and the Computational"
Dartmouth College, October 24 & 25, 2023
All workshop sessions are in the Wright Center/Neukom Institute, 252 Haldeman
Tuesday, October 24th
8:15-9:15am — Breakfast in 252 Haldeman
9:15-9:30am — Introduction by Susan J. Brison and Jacopo Domenicucci
Human agency
9:30-10:00am — Maria Brinker (University of Massachusetts, Boston), "Digital personalisation and human agency" / Chair: Susan Brison
10:00-10:25am — Discussion
5-minute break
10:30-11:00am — Elizabeth Edenberg (Baruch College, CUNY), "Securing Rights in the Digital Sphere" / Chair: Kate Norlock
11:00-11:25am — Discussion
11:25-11:40am — Coffee break in 252 Haldeman
11:40am-12:10pm — Jacopo Domenicucci (Dartmouth College), "Codes and Agency" / Chair: Sonu Bedi (Dartmouth College)
12:10-12:35pm — Discussion
12:35-2:00pm — Lunch in 252 Haldeman
Speech
2:00-2:30pm — Etienne Brown (San José State University), "Algorithmic Amplification and the Right to Reach" / Chair: Jacopo Domenicucci
2:30-2:55pm — Discussion
5-minute break
3:00-3:30pm — Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester), "Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter?" / Chair: Barrett Emerick
3:30-3:55pm — Discussion
3:55-4:10pm — Coffee break in 252 Haldeman
4:10-4:40pm — Lucy McDonald (King's College London), "Context Collapse Online" / Chair: Marion Boulicault
4:40-5:05pm — Discussion
Free time
7:00pm — Dinner in Ford-Sayer/Brewster, downstairs at the Hanover Inn
Wednesday, October 25th
8:30-9:30am — Breakfast in 252 Haldeman
Between ethics and epistemology
9:30-10:00am — Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini (Union College), "Value alignment and Trust in AI Tools" / Chair: Shannon Brick
10:00-10:25am — Discussion
5-minute break
10:30-11:00am — Jeff Lockhart (University of Chicago), "Machines making up people: Machine Learning and the (re)production of human kinds" / Chair: Melina Mandelbaum
11:00-11:25am — Discussion
11:25-11:40am — Coffee break in 252 Haldeman
11:40am-12:10pm — Hanna Kiri Gunn (University of California, Merced), "Why There Can Be No Politically Neutral Social Epistemology of the Internet" / Chair: Moya Mapps
12:10-12:35pm — Discussion
12:35-2:00pm — Lunch in 252 Haldeman—Wrap-up session
Invited discussants:
Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh)
Shannon Brick (Georgetown University)
Barrett Emerick (St Mary's College of Maryland)
Melina Mandelbaum (University of Cambridge)
Moya Kathryn Mapps (Stanford University)
Kathryn Norlock (Trent University)
Organizers:
Susan J. Brison (Director, Susan and James Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities, Dartmouth)
Jacopo Domenicucci (Neukom Fellow, Dartmouth)