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Johannes Bauer to present at 2021 GCTC Agriculture and Rural SuperCluster Workshop Hosted by Purdue University
2021-07-21 15:15 - 17:15 (America/Detroit) | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
Johannes M. Bauer, Broadband and educational achievements: disentangling a multifaceted relationship, 2021 GCTC Agriculture and Rural SuperCluster Workshop, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, July 21, 2021.

The program website is at https://ag.purdue.edu/digital-ag-resources/event/2021-gctc-agriculture-and-rural-supercluster-workshop/.

This is a hybrid event in which Purdue University is hosting the SuperCluster workshop for in-person participation onsite at Convergence Center, Purdue University and on Zoom.

Prof. Johannes Bauer, Quello Center and MSU: Innovation, Creativity and The Digital Economy
2021-05-19 08:00 - 10:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
Johannes M. Bauer will give a public lecture at the University of Indonesia – Innovation, Creativity and The Digital Economy

Prof. Johannes Bauer, Quello Center and MSU: Digital Security in Enterprises in a Context of Increasing Digitalization
2021-05-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Online Event, https://plamadiso.weizenbaum-institut.de/symposium-digital-economy/
Johannes M. Bauer will participate in a webinar on the “Digital Security in Enterprises in a Context of Increasing Digitalization” webinar, hosted by Cetic.br|NIC.br. With Tatiana Jereissati, Demi Getschko, and Alexandre F. Barbosa (Cetic.br|NIC.br); Laurent Bernat (OECD); Éireann Leverett (Concinnity Risks); Cristine Hoepers (CERT.br|NIC.br); Leonardo Melo Lins (Cetic.br|NIC.br); and Georgina Núñez (UN ECLAC).
He will talk about the chapter co-authored with William H. Dutton on “The New Cybersecurity Agenda”, just published by NIC.br in Portuguese.
Recorded Live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIzQbLLNpZQ.

Challenges of Smart Cities/Public-Private Partnerships in the Digital Economy. A Conversation with Alyssa Harvey Dawson, Gusto's Chief Legal Officer
2021-04-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
Join us as we discuss issues related to smart cities/public-private partnerships and the challenges associated with driving innovative projects that require coordinating with diverse stakeholders, especially when topics of data, privacy and AI are involved.
Alyssa Harvey Dawson joined Gusto as its first Chief Legal Officer in August 2020. She brings over 20 years of broad-based legal experience overseeing corporate governance, commercial transactions, compliance, risk, data privacy, intellectual property, immigration and governmental matters. At Gusto, Alyssa is on the executive leadership team and oversees the company’s legal and compliance teams, partnering with the business to incorporate forward-thinking legal, risk and compliance strategies that enable the company to serve the needs of its small business customers and their employees.
Before joining Gusto, Alyssa was General Counsel, Head of Legal, Privacy and Data Governance at Sidewalk labs, where, among other things, she was responsible for developing the legal team and strategy, including creating and implementing its Responsible Data Use principles and policy. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Alyssa held positions with Harman International and Netflix where she built new processes from the ground up including how to license, design, and market new products.
Alyssa received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Michigan State University and Juris Doctorate Degree from Georgetown University Law Center. She serves on the Advisory Board of Quello Center, Alumni Board of Michigan State University Honors College, and is a Member of Aspen Institute’s Tech Executive Leadership Institute.
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IMPhD & Quello Center present: Sonic Privacy with Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications
2021-04-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
Sonic Privacy with Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications
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This presentation is based on a study that considers the collection of sonic – sound related – data and proposes a theory of sonic privacy for data collection. At its foundation, this theory of sonic privacy examines the right of individuals related to their sonic emissions and distinguishes between sounds heard by other individuals and those collected through technological machinations. The talk examines the prior literature and background providing the foundational thinking on privacy related to sound. Following this, it turns to the wealth of sound focused privacy cases and legislation, specifically in the areas of surreptitious recording.
Jasmine E. McNealy is an associate professor in the Department of Telecommunication, in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, where she studies information, communication, and technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. Her research focuses on privacy, online media, and communities. She holds a PhD in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Media Law, and a J.D. from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor of Science degree in both Journalism and Afro-American studies from the University of Wisconsin.
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Regulating ‘Fairness’ on Social Media: Lessons from the Fairness Doctrine with Philip M. Napoli (Duke University)
2021-03-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
DIGITAL FUTURES WORKSHOP: Philip M. Napoli, Duke University
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Debates about political bias in the content curation and moderation practices of social media platforms have spilled over into the policy realm, rekindling conversations about the Fairness Doctrine and its potential utility in possible regulatory approaches to social media. This presentation revisits the history of the Fairness Doctrine, including its frequent recurrence as a point of reference in subsequent media policy debates, and uses this history as a lens for critically examining current proposals for integrating Fairness Doctrine-like principles into a regulatory framework for social media, including efforts to make Section 230 immunity from liability contingent upon platforms exhibiting greater “fairness” in their content curation and moderation practices. This presentation will pay particular attention to fundamental technological and political differences between the legacy and current contexts, as well as to key lessons from the Fairness Doctrine that should inform current deliberations.
Philip M. Napoli is the James R. Shepley Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is also a Faculty Affiliate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy and the Duke Center for Law and Technology. Professor Napoli’s research focuses on media institutions and media regulation and policy. He has provided formal and informal expert testimony on these topics to government bodies such as the U.S. Senate, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Congressional Research Service. He is the author/editor of seven books, the most recent being Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age (Columbia University Press, 2019), which received the 2020 Broadcast Education Association Book Award. Professor Napoli’s research has been supported by organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund, and the Social Science Research Council. He has been interviewed in media outlets such as the New York Times, the NBC Nightly News, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and National Public Radio.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Cybersecurity Capacity Building with Ruth Shillair (MSU & Quello Center) and William Dutton (Oxford University)
2021-02-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
DIGITAL FUTURES WORKSHOP: Ruth Shillair, Michigan State University & Quello Center and William Dutton, Oxford University
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Governments and international organizations are focusing increasing attention on building the capacity of nations to withstand threats to the security of the Internet and related digital resources on which nearly all actors within their country increasingly depend. However, there are major questions surrounding such initiatives, such as the return on the investment in capacity building and any unintended consequences on such central issues as privacy and freedom of expression. The Oxford Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre (GCSCC) and their partners have sent teams of researchers into 80 countries to meet with stakeholders to assess cybersecurity capacity building efforts. This research takes the findings from these initiatives supplemented with publicly available national data to empirically examine the impacts of cybersecurity capacity on economic and public good indicators. This seminar will introduce a discussion of key methodological and substantive issues tied to cybersecurity capacity building and this cross-national comparative research.
Ruth Shillair is an assistant professor and director of the Master’s Program in the Media & Information Department at Michigan State University. She has been working on research with the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford and also the Quello Center. She also has published research on the impacts of the digital divide, especially on marginalized communities.
William H. Dutton is an Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California, an Oxford Martin Fellow, supporting the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and Visiting Professor, Media and Communication, University of Leeds. Bill was OII’s Founding Director and first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford before his appointment as the James H. Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he directed the Quello Center.

Platform Economics: Possible Futures by Robin Mansell (LSE) & Ed Steinmueller (Sussex)
2021-01-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
DIGITAL FUTURES WORKSHOP: Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science and W. Edward Steinmueller, University of Sussex
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Platform companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are the giants of the post-industrial age. They are replacing the physical artefacts of media, transforming business models and challenging bricks and mortar retail establishments. These large-scale changes have negative as well as positive consequences and they are creating challenges for policy makers. The new ordering of markets is likely a first step in the use of data these companies are accumulating about preferences, social interconnections, and behaviours. Speaking to these themes in their new book Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics(Edward Elgar, 2020), Prof. Mansell and Prof. Steinmueller will be discussing how different economic lenses defend or advance policy reform.
Robin Mansell is a Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, Board member and Secretary of TPRC, and past President IAMCR. Her research focuses on technology innovation, digital platform governance and its socio-political and economic consequences.
W. Edward Steinmueller is the R.M. Phillips Professor of the Economics of Innovation, Science Policy Research Unit, at the University of Sussex, UK. Steinmueller’s current areas of research include the role of digital technologies in fundamental social and economic transformations such as the 4th industrial revolution, the reshaping of science and technology policy to address social needs and grand challenges, and the production, adoption and socio-economic consequences of Internet-related technologies.

Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation by Silvia M. Lindtner
2020-12-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–8, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.
Lindtner’s investigations draw on more than a decade of research in makerspaces, tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a “new” optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.
Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence.
Silvia Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). She is a founding member of Precarity Lab, a research collective working on various forms of insecurity, vulnerability, and social and cultural exclusion that digital platforms produce, and mediate. She is the co-founder of the China research collective Hacked Matter, dedicated to critically investigating processes of technology innovation, urban design, and production cultures in China. Lindtner’s research interests include cultures and politics of technology innovation and entrepreneurship as well as shifts in tech labor, industry, policy, and governance. Lindtner draws from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, with a particular focus on China’s shifting role in global tech production, unpacking how enduring colonialism, racism, and sexism shape the global political economy of technology production, economic development, and science and technology policy. Lindtner’s work contributes to the fields of STS (science and technology studies), cultural and feminist anthropology, China studies, HCI (human computer interaction), global communication studies, science and technology policy, and design. Her research has been awarded support from the US National Science Foundation, IMLS, Intel Labs, Google Anita Borg, and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation.
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International Impact of AI on Economy and Society Webinar
2020-11-19 08:00 - 10:00 | Online Event
This webinar examines the current and potential impact of artificial intelligence on the economy and society.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already a widespread technology, affecting every aspect of our daily life. Even though it is, as yet, no more than a machine or program performing a narrow range of tasks efficiently, it already does so as well as or even better than humans. Some experts are hailing this spectacular improvement in AI capacity, but others are concerned. AI is a double-edged sword: it can either protect or damage people depending on how it is used. Technologies, including AI, are intrinsically neutral, and it is humans (both developers and users) who determine the purposes to which AI is put. With the help of AI, we can develop new materials and vaccines faster, manage internet traffic more efficiently, and boost production efficiency. AI however can also generate unexpected economic and social turmoil, such as disruptive industrial restructuring entailing unemployment and widening income inequality, malicious use by terrorists, privacy breaches, and violations of human dignity. We are now receiving AI with conflicting emotions, hopes and fears. Humans are especially afraid of AI because it is not just relieving us of long and hard physical labour, but it is also beginning to substitute human intelligence (our brain functions).
Recognizing the potential dual impacts of AI on economy and society, TP recently published the very special issue on “Artificial intelligence, economy and society,” this webinar summons seven authors of the special issue to continue their unfinished discussions. We cordially invite you to this timely international forum.

This online event convenes at 14:00 pm CET on November 19, 2020 and is scheduled to run for 90 minutes.
Start times in other parts of the world are as follows:
Canada and United States: 08:00 am EST
Asia: Bangkok 20:00; Beijing/Singapore 21:00; Seoul/Tokyo 22:00
The program for this event — including the list of speakers, as well as information on how to register — can be found at the following link: https://itsworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AI-Webinar-Outline.pdf
Rregistration is free of charge. Please register here

Digital Futures Workshop: Digital Media & Human Capital in Rural America with Keith N. Hampton
2020-11-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
Compared with their urban and suburban peers, rural students in the United States are less likely to complete higher education. Thus, they forego one of the main paths to the development of human capital and its associated benefits. Some have pointed to divides in Internet access, due to concentrated socioeconomic inequalities and gaps in the infrastructure for fixed home broadband, as a contributor to rural students’ reduced ability to acquire human capital. Overcoming the “homework gap” between students who can and cannot use the Internet from home, possibly through wireless Internet access, has been suggested as one solution to bridging human capital and economic divides. However, there is mixed evidence that Internet use in general plays a supportive role in the formation of young peoples’ human capital. This talk contributes to clarifying these incomplete and sometimes conflicting arguments about the role of access and use of digital media on human capital in a rural context.
Keith N. Hampton is a professor in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University, where he is also Associate Director for Academic Research at the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Media and Information Policy, and an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Sociology. Keith’s research is focused on the relationship between new information and communication technologies, social networks, democratic engagement and the urban environment. His recent research has looked at the outcomes of persistent contact and pervasive awareness through social media, including stress, social isolation, exposure to diverse points of view, and willingness to voice opinions.
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Digital Activity and Economic Resilience in Communities
2020-10-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
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We have lacked good data to understand how people use technology across communities and what impact this has on local outcomes. The need has been especially critical during the pandemic when so much of life shifted online. With access to de-identiﬁed data on GoDaddy’s 20 million “ventures” (or domain name websites) since 2018, we explore over time how this digital activity matters for economic opportunity and resilience in communities. Over 75% of these ventures are commercial, and this new data captures online activity of micro- businesses and startups that are too small or too new to be counted by the census. There is evidence that this grassroots digital activity contributes to prosperity in communities, before and during the Covid-19 shutdowns.
Karen Mossberger is the Frank and June Sackton Professor in the School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Center on Technology, Data and Society and also a senior sustainability scholar with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Her research interests include local governance, urban policy, digital inequality, evaluation of broadband programs and digital government. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Chicago Community Trust, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, among others. The work reported in this talk is co-authored by Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa and Scott LaCombe, Smith College.

TPRC48 Webinar: Antitrust and Platform Regulation
2020-08-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
TPRC48 Webinar

Thursday, August 13, 1 pm ET
ANTI-TRUST AND PLATFORM REGULATION
Moderator, Scott Wallsten, President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute
Panelists:
Johannes Bauer, Chairperson, Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University
Joe Kennedy, Senior Fellow, ITIF
Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition.
Shane Tews, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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Next Practices Live with Dr. Scott Wallsten and Dr. Johannes Bauer
2020-07-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Via Zoom, Via Zoom
A lot of countries are interested in having telecom operators share infrastructure. Some are concerned that capital costs are a barrier to competition. Others believe that sharing might result in lower prices. What are the real effects of sharing? Why is it that some operators willingly share infrastructure, but others do not?

Please join Next Practices Live as Mark Jamison talks with Dr. Scott Wallsten and Dr. Johannes Bauer about this very issue. Scott is President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He was the economics director for the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, served as an economist for The World Bank, and as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Johannes is a Professor and Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University. He is a frequent contributor to PURC training programs and internationally known as a leading scholar in telecommunications policy and regulation.
Mark will interview Scott and Johannes beginning at 10:00 am US Eastern Time on Thursday, June 25. Asking them questions for 20 minutes and then we will take written questions from all of you for 20 minutes. The last 20 minutes will be for you to share your experiences and get input from your colleagues around the world.
Click here to register. We will present this session utilizing an online Zoom meeting. You can join from your computer with your computer audio. A webcam is not required. If using your tablet or smart phone, you will want to download the Zoom app in advance. We are limited to 300 connections for this presentation, so don’t delay registering. If you cannot join Live, the presentation will be archived in video and audio formats.

Colonized by Data: The Costs of Connection, Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Ulises A. Mejias, Oswego State University of New York
2020-02-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
ARCHIVED TALK: https://livestream.com/wkar/colonizedbydata
This talk will introduce the speakers’ new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019). Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new “data colonialism” is based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data, paving the way for a further stage of capitalism. Today’s transformations of social life through data must therefore be grasped within the long historical arc of dispossession as both a new colonialism and an extension of capitalism. Resistance requires challenging in their new material guises forms of coloniality that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries. The struggle will be both broader and longer than many analyses of algorithmic power suppose, but for that reason critical responses are all the more urgent. New forms of solidarity are needed that help build connection on different terms from those currently on offer.
Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. In fall 2018 he was also a Visiting Professor at MIT. He jointly led, with Clemencia Rodriguez, the chapter on media and communications in the 22 chapter 2018 report of the International Panel on social Progress: www.ipsp.org. He is the author or editor of fourteen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). His latest books are The Costs of Connection and Media: Why It Matters (Polity: October 2019).
Ulises Ali Mejias is associate professor of Communication Studies and director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. He is a media scholar whose work encompasses critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media. He is the author of Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and various articles including ‘Disinformation and the Media: The case of Russia and Ukraine’ in Media, Culture and Society (2017, with N. Vokuev), and ‘Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond’ in Fibreculture (2012).

Virtual Interactions that Impact Physical Behaviors - Virtual Reality’s Promises and Pitfalls in Communication by Sun Joo Grace Ahn, University of Georgia
2020-02-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Friday, February 14, 2020, 11 AM, Room 145 CAS
Immersive virtual environments, commonly known as virtual reality, surround users with rich layers of sensory information and allow them to see, hear, and feel as if they are in the physical world. My work has explored the use of virtual experiences to impact how people think and behave in the physical world, particularly in the context of health and risk communication. This talk will introduce studies that span across over a decade of investigating virtual reality’s effect on attitude and behavior change. Findings shed light on when and how these virtual experiences are (or are not) effective, underlying mechanisms driving these effects, and individual differences that moderate the observed outcomes. Implications for adopting virtual reality in communication and behavioral sciences and considerations for future research will be discussed.
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (Ph.D., Stanford University) is an Associate Professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, and founding director of the Games and Virtual Environments Lab. Her main program of research investigates how interactive digital media such as virtual and augmented reality transform traditional rules of communication and social interactions, looking at how virtual experiences shape the way the way that people think, feel, and behave in the physical world. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and is published in numerous top-tier outlets in the fields of communication, health, and engineering. She is the recipient of the Mary Alice Shaver Promising Professor Award from the American Academy of Advertising, the inaugural Early Career Award from the National Communication Association’s Health Communication Division, and the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Spatial data analytics for 5G assessment By Edward Oughton
2020-01-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Quello Center, 404 Wilson Rd, Room 191, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Edward Oughton, University of Oxford
5G is now the focus in telecom markets around the world. Hence, decision makers in industry and government require new evidence to help strategically connect both people and things to a faster, more reliable internet. This presentation focuses on the development of new spatial data analytics to support decisions relating to telecommunication technologies, business models and policies, based on engineering-economic assessment of 5G roll-out. Research using four key methods which underpin these analytics will be presented including (i) simulation modeling, (ii) open-source software, (iii) machine learning and (iv) high performance computing. Attention will also be paid to how these techniques are now being applied in emerging economies to help connect more people to the internet.
Edward Oughton is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford and is known for developing decision-support models of digital infrastructure for both industry and government. He carried out one of the first assessments of 5G roll-out in Britain, subsequently applying these techniques to countries around the world. Edward has been awarded over $750k in funding and delivered projects for many institutions including the World Bank, Facebook Connectivity Lab, UK Treasury, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, AIG and Lockheed Martin. In 2017, he was nominated by the US Embassy (London) for the International Visitors Leadership Program based on his telecommunications research. Edward holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a 5G Researcher in Residence at the UK’s Digital Catapult. He also retains visiting positions at the Cambridge Judge Business School and Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

An open-source techno-economic assessment framework for 5G deployment
5G assessment of the Netherlands
5G assessment of the UK

Join online on Zoom, https://zoom.us Meeting ID: 663 036 200

Amanda Holmstrom: Communicating Social Support to those in Need: What Research Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us
2020-01-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Friday, January 17, 2020, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in CAS 145
We rely on the people around us to help us move through our personal, professional, and relational struggles. Consequently, the provision and reception of high-quality, supportive communication is vital for physical, mental, and relational well-being. However, we sometimes lack the skills to send the most effective messages of support to those in need. In my talk, I’ll discuss my research program that is centered around the communication of social support. In doing so, I’ll focus on key theoretical and pragmatic implications of this body of research.
Amanda Holmstrom is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. Her teaching and research revolve around interpersonal communication topics. Specifically, much of her research focuses on relationships between supportive communication processes and individuals’ psychological, physical, and relational well-being. The goal of this research is both to advance theory and to develop interventions to enhance individuals’ well-being via social support. Her research involves diverse populations, including breast cancer patients, unemployed workers, parole and probation clients, and agricultural producers. She is the current chair of the Interpersonal Communication Division of the International Communication Association.

Amy Gonzalez, UC Santa Barbara: Importance of Access to Digital Technology for Building and Maintaining Social Capital and Quality of Life
2019-12-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
We are reliant on digital technology for nearly every aspect of daily life, including searching for job, completing coursework, and accessing healthcare. In this talk I will present data from two studies demonstrating the essential nature of digital access for the health, quality of life, and social capital of individuals from marginalized communities. First, I will present findings from a diary study in Philadelphia on the use of digital technology to broaden social networks for those constrained by geographic segregation. Second, I will present findings from a 6-month field experiment in Indiana demonstrating that stable access to cell-phones improves health and quality of life over time. These effects were moderated by social support, such that those individuals with the fewest supportive relationships benefited the most from stable cell phone access. In tandem, these findings point to the need for ensuring digital access in low-income communities and communities of color.
Amy Gonzales is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work examines the effects of social interaction via communication technologies on individual identity, social support, and well-being , as well as the consequences of disrupted access to communication technology. She is especially interested in these phenomena for people from disadvantaged communities (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, low- income populations, LGBTQ individuals, etc.). Her work aims to advance theoretical understanding and real-world solutions that may help mitigate the long-term consequences of new digital infrastructures that may otherwise exacerbate social inequalities.

IMPhD & Quello Center present: Lanier Holt, The Ohio State University
2019-11-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Is there anything that can be done? Examining the effect media messages have on race and perception.
Very little of what we know about the world today comes from reality. Increasingly what fills the gap between what we know, and come to believe, comes from media messages. Media scholars have long known first-hand experience/reality offset almost all media effects. However, recent research has also shown that racial discussions are rare, and even on social media, people are more likely to self-select themselves into racially homogenous enclaves than to have a diverse network of friends. This presentation discusses the status of Black-White relations today, the media’s role in it, why Whites have a negative opinion of Blacks, and what can be done to both identify and possibly negate negative racial opinions borne from media messages.
BIO: Dr. Holt is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. His work sits at the confluence of Journalism, Media Effects and Social Psychology. It specifically analyzes the underlying psychological processes that inform opinions on race-related media coverage. It goes beyond merely recording individuals’ reactions to media, which is the traditional approach used by critical race scholars to investigate what people think after reading or watching media messages. Rather, his theoretical approach is based in understanding the underlying mechanisms for how and why mostly White media consumers process the messages to do, and what their perceptual outcomes are after exposure to these race- related media messages. Dr. Holt is a former professional journalist and communicator having worked at World Headquarters for Honeywell Inc., and later the company’s aerospace business unit. He has also worked for several newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, and Rochester Post-Bulletin.

Communication Regulatory Science: Optimizing Hookah Tobacco Public Education Messages to Reduce Young Adult Use
2019-10-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
A talk by Glenn Leshner, University of Oklahoma
Friday, October 11, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in CAS 145
Communication regulatory science (CRS) is “communication research that uses validated techniques, tools, and models to inform regulatory actions that promote optimal communication outcomes and benefit the public” (Noar, et al, 2019). An example of CRS research is provided in the context of hookah smoking behavior. Hookah tobacco use is a public health concern because it poses substantial health risks, promotes addiction, and is associated with progression to cigarette smoking. Based on our literature review and pilot testing, we identified message risks/themes to test that target these constructs: 1) health harms, 2) addictiveness, 3) social use, 4) flavoring. Participants’ psychophysiological responses were recorded during message exposure in order to get moment-by-moment cognitive and emotional responses to different message themes and content. Data from a 2 (hookah user status: users/non-users) x 2 (message risk: health risk/addiction risk) x 3 (additional theme: basic/social use/flavoring) x 2 (message repetition) controlled mixed experiment will be presented. Measurements include ECG, GSR, FACS, eye-tracking, recognition, and other self-reports.
Glenn Leshner is the Edward L. and Thelma Gaylord endowed chair in journalism in the Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He also directs the OU PRIME Lab, located in the Center for Applied Social Research on OU’s research campus. He is a member of the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center and the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Stephenson Cancer Center at the OU Health Sciences Center. His research is in the area of communication regulatory science (CRS), psychological processing of mediated information, including attention, memory, affect, and behavior, particularly with respect to health messages. He has conducted research on how individuals process health-related information, such as anti-tobacco audio/visual messages. He has produced more than 130 articles, book chapters, and conference papers, and has published in top-tier journals such as Communication Research, Media Psychology, Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and Health Communication. Leshner has won research paper awards from both AEJMC and ICA, and directed a dissertation of the year presented jointly by ICA and NCA. He comes to the Gaylord College after serving more than 20 years on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism where he co-directed the PRIME Lab. He received his Ph.D. From Stanford University, his M.M.C. from the University of South Carolina, and his B.A. from Rutgers University.
Sponsored by the Quello Center and Information and Media Ph.D. program.

Where is Digital Technology's Ralph Nader? A talk by Kentaro Toyama
2019-10-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Room 155, 404 Wilson Road, Room 155, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
WATCH THE LIVE STREAMUntil the mid-1960s, the automobile industry cared little for safety regulation. That changed in 1966 when the United States passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicles Safety Act, which then House Speaker John McCormack credited to the “crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something… Ralph Nader.” Today, we are faced with a digital technology industry that appears to care little for regulation, worrying that any constraints will dampen innovation. Yet, despite mounting concerns about technology’s role in destroying privacy, eroding mental health, increasing inequality, and even threatening democracy itself, regulation is slow and lagging. Where is our generation’s Ralph Nader? In this talk, I argue that for a variety of reasons, we cannot expect a single person to wield that kind of political influence over the tech industry. Instead, I propose that a coalition of university departments is the best suited to sustaining meaningful pressure against the Silicon Valley excesses.
Kentaro Toyama is W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information and a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. He is the author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. From 2005-2009, Toyama was co-founder and assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India.

Quello at the 47th TPRC
2019-09-20 00:00 - 2019-09-21 23:59 | American University Washington College of Law, 4300 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington, Washington, DC, 20016, United States
Quello Researchers will present five papers at the 47th Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy in Washington, DC.
Topics include communications policy and political participation, policies to narrow the digital divide in distressed communities, international comparisons of online political expression, 5G policy, and next generation internet innovation.

Citizen Interaction Design and Its Implications for HCI - a talk by Cliff Lampe, UM
2019-09-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Hybrid-Com Arts Room 191 and Via Zoom, 404 Wilson Rd, Room 191, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Friday, September 13, 2019, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, Room 191 ComArtSci
Abstract: In this talk, he will describe the Citizen Interaction Design program, which partners with Michigan cities to conduct user experience research projects, connects students to information problems in civic contexts, and implements civic technology for a broad range of civic problems. Dr. Lampe will discuss the structure of this program, several projects that have been done in cities like Jackson, Detroit and Lansing, as well as the pedagogical outcomes of the work. Finally, he will connect this program to HCI research more broadly, and discuss next stages of this program.
Bio: Cliff Lampe is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was on the faculty of the College of Communications Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University. His work crosses Communication and Computer Science topics, with a focus in social computing and human-computer interaction. His recent work has included studies of social media use, online communities, and civic technology. Cliff is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, and holds multiple service roles in the ACM community, including current Executive Vice President of ACM SIGCHI.
Co-sponsored with the I&M PhD Program.
