Digital Intermediaries of Confidence, Trust, and Security
Convenors
Florian Hoof, Goethe-University Frankfurt Moira Weigel, Harvard University
Conference Schedule
December 16
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
Welcome Florian Hoof, Goethe University Frankfurt Moira Weigel, Harvard University
09:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Certifying Cybersecurity Experts Rebecca Slayton, Cornell University
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Mapping Media Cultures of Digital Security and Trust Florian Hoof, Goethe University Frankfurt
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Data and AI: On the rise of Machine Empiricism in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Amira Moeding, University of Cambridge
12:15 PM – 01:00 PM
Digital Sovereignty as an Ill-Structured (or wicked?) Problem Daniela Zetti, University of Lübeck
01:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Lunch
02:30 PM – 03:15 PM
AI Sovereignty and Networked Sovereignty: A View from Africa Iginio Gagliardone, WiSER Johannesburg
03:15 PM – 04:00 PM
The Platformization of Cybersecurity: Uncovering Invisible Labor in “Bug Bounty” Platforms Jean-Christophe Plantin, LSE
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Coffee Break
04:30 PM – 05:15 PM
An Annotated Bibliography After Surveillance
05:30 PM – 06:30 PM
Keynote 1: Nicole Starosielski, UC Berkeley Opening the Black Box: Toward an Engaged Digital Infrastructure Research Agenda
06:30 PM
Dinner in NO Building & Lounge
December 17
09:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Platform-Mediated racialization: A case study of rural Chinese wig sellers and Black clients on Alibaba Shichang Duan, University of Amsterdam
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Amazon Fixers: The Limits of Platform Governance and the Codes of Consulting Moira Weigel, Harvard University
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Keynote 2: Nick Couldry, LSE Big Data’s Emerging social Orders: the Changing Stakes of Analysis and Critique. A Conversation with Moira Weigel and Florian Hoof
12:30 PM – 01:45 PM
Lunch
01:45 PM – 02:30 PM
Seeing Like a Mouse: The Ends of Workplace Surveillance and the Semiotics of Deception Nick Seaver, Tufts University