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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | =='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | ||
====Thursday, October 17, 2019: When Users Control the Algorithms: Values Expressed in Practices on the Twitter Platform | |||
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* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT | |||
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://FIX Airmo] and | |||
[https:/FIX YouTube] | |||
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Recent interest in ethical AI has brought a slew of values, including fairness, into conversations about technology design. Research in the area of algorithmic fairness tends to be rooted in questions of distribution that can be subject to precise formalism and technical implementation. We seek to expand this conversation to include the experiences of people subject to algorithmic classification and decision-making. By examining tweets about the “Twitter algorithm” we consider the wide range of concerns and desires Twitter users express. We find a concern with fairness (narrowly construed) is present, particularly in the ways users complain that the platform enacts a political bias against conservatives. However, we find another important category of concern, evident in attempts to exert control over the algorithm. Twitter users who seek control do so for a variety of reasons and their strategies often produce considerable social utility. Beyond the experiences on any single platform, we argue for better and clearer definitions of what constitutes legitimate and illegitimate control over algorithmic processes. | |||
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Jenna Burrell is an Associate Professor in the [https://ischool.berkeley.edu School of Information] at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on how marginalized communities adapt digital technologies to meet their needs and to pursue their goals and ideals. She is the co-director of the [https://afog.berkeley.edu/ Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group]. She is currently working on a book about rural communities that host critical Internet infrastructure such as fiber optic cables and data centers. Her first book [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/invisible-users Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana] (The MIT Press) came out in May 2012. She earned a PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics. | |||
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish] | |||
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** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series | |||
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers | |||
====Thursday, October 10, 2019: Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work==== | ====Thursday, October 10, 2019: Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work==== | ||
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT | * Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT | ||