After Surveillance.

Digital Intermediaries of Confidence, Trust, and Security

Convenors

Florian Hoof, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Moira Weigel, Harvard University

Conference Schedule

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

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

02:30 PM – 03:15 PM

Research Paradigms After Surveillance