Excited to announce our Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute's $1.2M award to partner with the City of Philadelphia to evaluate and support their NTIA-funded initiative to create a more digitally empowered city. @PSUBellisario@_DavidBermantiny.cc/bx07001
Applications are open for the Emerging Scholar program at the Milton Wolf Seminar, April 8-10. Deadline 2/14. Come join us in Vienna. Details here:
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MIC is hiring! We are starting a research programđź‘€at the ways in which corporations are shaping AI governance agendas in 3 national contexts. If you are a critical data/AI studies researcher, please check out the call for applications! Dec 25 deadline.
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🏆2 new grants! #1 expands our research w/ @PSUBellisario on digital equity from @IPMFoundation & #2: Novel collab with @LinaDencik & Joanna Redden to investigate how corporate influence on development of AI impacts democracies in 3 countries from @NEHgovtinyurl.com/33phbt8y
Congratulations to our co-directors Lina and Joanna! We’re very pleased to see the work of the Lab continue and look forward to collaborating with @MIC_Center on this important research!
New project! Excited to have received funding under the T-AP scheme to start a collaboration with Joanna Redden and @VWPickard to investigate corporate activities in the advancement of AI across UK, Canada and US. Project starts in Sep so watch this space!
Our Milton Wolf Seminar emerging scholar blog posts are published! Themes at the intersection of AI, global media policy, journalism, and geopolitical upheaval. Check out how their research comes into conversation with discussions we had in Vienna.
asc.upenn.edu/research/cente…
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You won't want to miss this book talk w/ Kate Wright @newsprof1 on 4/11. Rare interviews and declassified docs from Trump's (& Michael Pack's) @USAGMgov abuse of power & mismanagement 2020-2021. Pack is back w/ 2024 visions.
@MediaatRisk1 cosponsoring
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