[Air-L] Vienna & online: project presentation & panel discussion "Google, surveillance capitalism, and discrimination – from critique to intervention?"
astrid mager
astrid.mager at univie.ac.at
Thu Mar 31 02:27:54 PDT 2022
Invitatation to project presentation & panel discussion "Google,
surveillance capitalism, and discrimination – from critique to
intervention?":
12. April 2022, 17:30 – 20:00h, online and in Vienna:
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
"Johannessaal"*REGISTRATION FORM
<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/pages/google-surveillance-capitalism-and-discrimination-from-critique-to-intervention>
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Google's hegemonial stand, its algorithms, and possible interventions
are at the focus of this event. ITA researcher Astrid Mager will present
the results of her FWF project and bring together leading search engine
researchers to discuss Google critique, regulation, and alternatives.
With Google being front and center, search engines have been exposed
again and again for not offering objective results. It has been proven
that Google placed its own products on valuable “front-page real
estate”, and notions such as the “Googlization of everything” underline
its hegemonic position. It has a business model based on user profiling
dubbed surveillance capitalism. More recently, Google’s algorithms have
been found to output biased and discriminatory results. Building on this
critique, what interventions are necessary and what are possible
alternatives? How has regulation, specifically of Google and surveillant
platforms more generally, responded to these developments? What else is
to be done about the hegemony of Google, its vast personal data
collection, its discriminatory results, and the governance and
accountability of engines and other online platforms? Finally, how can
we pave the way towards more open, just, and independent search engines
and infrastructures in the future?
This public event brings together leading search engine scholars to
discuss these questions from a European perspective. The evening opens
with a talk by Astrid Mager, senior postdoc at the Institute of
Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,
presenting the results of her project „Algorithmic Imaginaries“. It is
followed by a lively panel discussion with Rosie Graham
<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/graham-rosie.aspx>
(University of Birmingham), Bernhard Rieder
<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/i/b.rieder/b.rieder.html> (University
of Amsterdam) und Elizabeth Van Couvering
<https://www.kau.se/en/researchers/elizabeth-van-couvering> (Karlstad
University), moderated by Ov Cristian Norocel
<https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/cristian-norocel> (Lund
University) and Richard Rogers
<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/o/r.a.rogers/r.a.rogers.html>
(University of Amsterdam). **
*more information on the program and link to stream here:*
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/detail/event/google-surveillance-capitalism-and-discrimination-from-critique-to-intervention
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