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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | =='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | ||
====Thursday, | ====Thursday, 30 April 2020: Ghost Work in Pandemic Times with Mary L. Gray==== | ||
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* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians | * Location: Broadcast and archived for NDAd Mozillians on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-30 Airmo]. | ||
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Gray will draw from ''Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass'' (her 2019 book, coauthored with computer scientist Siddharth Suri), to argue that public health and economic recovery hinge on reckoning with the value of on-demand workers. The talk will outline the rise of on-demand services and the labor conditions and market flows that organize it. She will connect the global shift away from a shared worksite, co-present colleagues, and secure employment status many are experiencing today to the lessons learned from people who have been navigating ghost work conditions for more than a decade. Gray will end with a warning about another form of ghost work on the horizon: If not stopped now, the drive to develop automated contact tracing could reinforce ‘the paradox of automation’s last mile’—a relentless tech optimism that draws our attention to tech innovation as it elides the value of contingent human labor. Weathering the COVID-19 pandemic will require building technologies that assist and amplify rather than erase trusted healthcare workers. | |||
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Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow at Harvard University. Gray also maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Gray, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how everyday uses of technologies transform people’s lives. She is the co-author of ''Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a Global Underclass.'' Gray chairs the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally-registered review board of its kind in the tech industry. She is recognized as a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics, particularly research at the intersections of computer and social sciences. She currently sits on the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), the nation’s oldest organization advancing ethics in the social and biomedical sciences. | |||
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=='''Previous Speakers'''== | =='''Previous Speakers'''== | ||
===2020=== | ===2020=== | ||
====Thursday, 16 April 2020: Rethinking Trust and Well-Being in this Strange New World with Jeff Hancock==== | |||
* Time: 10am PT / 1:00pm ET / 7:00pm CET | |||
* Location: Broadcast and archived for Mozillians and the public on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-04-16 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWCZNuopco Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR]. | |||
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A new trust framework is emerging – fueled by social, economic and technological forces that will profoundly alter how we trust, not only what we see and read online, but also one another. At the same time, technology is now crucial for staying distant socializing while we must keep our social distance. These changes have profound implications for our psychological well-being. In this talk we will discuss how principles from psychology and communication intersect deception, trust and well-being with technology. We will discuss several studies that reveal key principles to guide how we think about truth and trust on the internet, and I will report on a new meta-analysis examining every study examining social media and well-being. | |||
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Jeff Hancock is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and the Founding Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. A leading expert in social media behavior and the psychology of online interaction, Professor Hancock studies the impact of social media and technology on well-being, relationships, deception and trust, identity, and more. | |||
His research has been published in over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings and has been supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. Professor Hancock’s TED Talk on deception has been seen over 1 million times and his research has been frequently featured in the popular press, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS and the BBC. | |||
Professor Hancock worked for Canada Customs before earning his PhD in Psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada. He was a Professor of Information Science (and co-Chair) and Communication at Cornell University prior to joining Stanford in 2015. He currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife and daughter, and he regularly gets shot at on the ice as a hockey goalie. | |||
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====Thursday, 26 March 2020: Three waves of open source voice: how do we shape the voice landscape over the next 5 years?, with Kathy Reid==== | ====Thursday, 26 March 2020: Three waves of open source voice: how do we shape the voice landscape over the next 5 years?, with Kathy Reid==== | ||