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September 2021
- September 24, 2021
- 10:30am to 12:00pm
- TPRC
- 404 Wilson Rd, East Lansing.
Effects of Big Tech Acquisitions on Start-up Funding and Innovation
Tiago S. Prado will present Effects of Big Tech Acquisitions on Start-up Funding and Innovation at the online 49th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC49) on Friday, September 24, 10:30 AM. The paper is part of the Quello Center research project on Modeling and Measuring the Economic Impacts of Digital Platform Innovation. Quello Center Working Paper No. 04-21, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3787127.
October 2021
- October 8, 2021
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Quello Center
- 404 Wilson Rd, Room 191, East Lansing.
Abundance: On the experience of living in a world of information plenty with Pablo J. Boczkowski, Northwestern University.
DIGITAL FUTURES WORKSHOP: Pablo J. Boczkowski at the Quello Center. Join us in person or via Zoom(sign up here). Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide…
November 2021
- November 3, 2021
- 12:00pm to 3:00pm
- The Pew Charitable Trust
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Keith N. Hampton and Johannes M. Bauer will present at the The Pew Charitable Trust event in Washington, D.C.
Keith N. Hampton and Johannes M. Bauer will present Quello Center research on the interaction of broadband, social factors, and educational outcomes at an invitation-only event organized by The Pew Charitable Trust in Washington, D.C. on November 3. Titled Universal Broadband Access and Shaping the Future of Education, the event is one of several planned conversations to discuss the opportunity, challenges, and concrete steps towards re-imagining and building an inclusive, innovative education system.
- November 5, 2021
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Quello Center
- 404 Wilson Rd, Room 405, East Lansing.
Cyber-insurance Policy: The Role of Carriers and Regulators in an Emerging Market
Josephine Wolff, Assistant Professor for Cybersecurity Policy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University Via Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu This talk will trace the emergence and continuing growth of the cyber-insurance industry, focusing on how it has evolved in the first twenty years of its existence, where it is headed, why online threats have been particularly challenging for many insurers to model, and what role policy-makers can and should play in helping the market stabilize and grow. Through a series of legal disputes centered on denied claims for cyber-related losses, the talk will examine how insurers have…
December 2021
- December 10, 2021
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Quello Center
- Via Zoom, Click View Event to Register.
Information Seeking During Covid-19. A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Beliefs, Knowledge, and Preventative Behavioral Intentions
Please RSVP here or email quello@msu.edu Submit any questions to quello@msu.edu The Quello Center Information Seeking Project examines how information seeking from online and offline sources is associated with knowledge of dynamically evolving events. We use the COVID-19 pandemic as a case in point for a class of phenomena for which incomplete (scientific) information about the phenomenon interacts with misinformation and disinformation. How is reliance on different information sources associated with beliefs about the pandemic, knowledge about it, and behavioral intentions to engage in precautionary measures? We applied multiple theoretical and empirical models to data from nationally representative surveys in the United States (N=2,280)…
January 2022
- January 14, 2022
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Rural Computing Research Consortium
- Via Zoom, Click View Event to Register.
Big Data in Agriculture: Applications and Policy
Via Zoom RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu A Rural Computing Research Consortium/Quello Center joint event. Precision agriculture (PA) has aided farmers, researchers, and agricultural technology providers (ATPs) with feeding a growing population with finite resources. By using remote sensing and other data collecting techniques, farmers can more precisely apply their inputs to maximize their yield. ATPs collect input and output data from farmers and use artificial intelligence and machine learning to build prescription maps which farmers can program farm equipment to follow. The use of PA has allowed farmers to use less resources, which saves money and reduces environmental impact. However, technology…
February 2022
- February 4, 2022
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Quello Center
- Via Zoom, Click View Event to Register.
Media-Concentration Control in Times of Platformization – Findings From a Cross-National Study
Prof. Dr. Natascha Just, Alena Birrer, MA, Danya He, MSc, Media & Internet Governance Division, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich Via Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu Internationally dominant Internet platforms have established themselves as crucial intermediaries for opinion-forming content and have disrupted national media and communications markets. This raises new questions about the control of opinion power and media concentration in times of platformization. This talk presents findings from a cross-national study on the control of market and opinion power in five countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, USA). It scrutinizes the current state of media-concentration control…
March 2022
- March 25, 2022
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Quello Center
- Via Zoom, Click View Event to Register.
“Because Technology” and Other Legal Imaginaries of COVID-19
Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University Via Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu The Covid-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to examine how a medical emergency — so different in kind from the national security emergencies we are accustomed to thinking about in this policy issue area — affected information policy as broadly defined. The talk will provide an overview of information policy as legal epidemiology, examines the legal imaginaries of the pandemic as they appeared in the first five months, and positions those imaginaries relative to the longer trajectories of the evolution of information policy.…
April 2022
- April 8, 2022
- 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Rural Computing Research Consortium
- Via Zoom, Click View Event to Register.
Living with HIV in Rural Areas: Addressing Healthcare Transportation Barriers through Technology.
Via Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu People living with HIV in rural areas need to get to healthcare facilities and places where they can find nutritious food that are often located in other towns or cities. Thus, access to affordable and reliable forms of transportation to healthcare and food resources is critical for this population. Yet, the transportation needs of this vulnerable population are often underserved as public and private transportation services are limited in rural areas. Ridesharing platforms have made it easier for people living in urban areas to get to work, grocery stores and healthcare providers. However, such technologies…
- April 27, 2022
- 8:00am to 9:30am
- International Telecommunications Society
- 404 Wilson Rd, East Lansing.
“Innovation in 5G technology: leadership, competition, and policy issues” Presentation and discussion of the Special Issue of Telecommunications Policy
Dr. Johannes Bauer will be speaking with Maria Alessandra Rossi, Maria Massaro, and Pier Luigi Parcu at a webinar organized by the International Telecommunications Society 5G development, implementation and disruptiveness continues to gather attention and debate among policymakers and researchers. 5G will provide the basis for digitization in many areas of our lives and will influence a broad spectrum of sectors. Full realisation of the Internet of Things (IoT), often called the next Industrial Revolution, relies on 5G development. At present, one estimate is that there will be up to 26 billion connected devices by 2026 (Ericsson, 2021). The global…