In the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, it's more important than ever that journalists and their employers understand what they’re getting into when using the social media...
Jillian York
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines state and corporate censorship and its impact on culture and human rights. Based in Berlin, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights at the European University Viadrina.
States, companies, algorithms and crowds: the many new faces of web censorship
Censorship is one of the most mainstreamed tools for repression in the digital age. Sometimes it is abuses of copyright regulation, sometimes just a tool for expression control, sometimes the collab...
Media commentators are calling for technology companies to be nationalized, boycotted, and even shut down, claiming they are the ruination of society. Really? Are we worse off or better off with the n...
The capture of traditional media by Facebook and its implications for free speech and privacy. Facebook, Apple and Google have all recently made significant strides in the field of publishing, with...
This beginner-level talk will help attendees understand the various threats to their online privacy that they encounter each day, and basic ways to respond to those threats.
The emergence of new technologies within the reach of all and of a wider and more accessible Internet have facilitated the creation and the sharing of non-professional news&opinion and accelerated...
The Italian translation of Ethan Zuckerman's 2013 book Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection - entitled in Italian Rewire. Cosmopoliti digitali nell'era della globalità - has just ...
Network, information, communication and technology; words of a world increasingly populated by women. This panel is inspired by the speech by Megan Smith, Google's vice president, at the Women 2.0 co...
With the emergence of a widespread surveillance system in the NSA files, the Edward Snowden case has deeply affected journalism, both in terms of the role played by the media and of the practices adop...
