[Air-L] Gender & Tech Online Talk Series – August 28, 11am EDT - Platform Governance

[Jess Reia]

Dear colleagues,



The University of Virginia School of Data Science, in partnership with the
Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, is pleased to announce the third
session of the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series, which will take place
on August
28, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT).



The “Platform Governance” session will discuss free speech regulation,
activism, and platform policies. Speakers will be encouraged to address the
role that feminist labor activism and policy reforms play in creating
platforms that prioritize social justice and human rights, the prevalent
perspectives on freedom of expression in social media governance, the way
cultural norms and systemic biases in tech influence freedom of expression
online, and the necessary reforms to advance minorities’ participation in
platform governance from an STS education and practice perspective.



We are honoured to welcome two keynote speakers:

Julie Owono (Internet Sans Frontières & Meta Oversight Board)

Coleen Carrigan (UVA Engineering).



The webinar is free and open to the public. You can register here:
https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XBBg61Y2QzWMWpGN__9z0g#/registration


The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars,
advocates, and practitioners to examine the intersections of gender,
technology, democracy, and human rights. Its purpose is to critically
explore how digital platforms and technological infrastructures impact
women, queer, and gender-diverse individuals, while also identifying
pathways toward more inclusive, rights-based models of digital governance.




We invite everyone interested in advancing equity and justice in digital
governance to participate in this important conversation.



The series is co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia and sponsored by
the UVA School of Data Science and DTD Lab.



Please feel free to circulate this announcement within your networks.



Thank you!

Jess and Yasmin


*Jess Reia, Ph.D.  (they/them)*

Andrew Carnegie Fellow <https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/jess-reia/>
Assistant Professor of Data Science
Faculty co-lead, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab
<https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/digital-technology-democracy-lab>,
University
of Virginia

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Public Policy
<https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/main.htm>, Fudan University
2024-2025 Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology
<https://cdt.org/>
<https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/>

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