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Nurturer archetype is needed when creating a container intending for bold and courageous visioning and action, for community leaders and engaged scholars too often burntout from extractivist relations. Thank you @MarthaFuentes for holding this space and looking fire doing it 🔥

First time to hear Heesoo Jang speak and already buzzing with ideas for new schemes and projects UMass Amherst 🔥

Panel 3, "Global Elections 2024: India, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana and the USA" was incredible! 🔥📷 Thank you Heesoo Jang, Herman Wasserman, @seyramavle, @krforde and Ethan Zuckerman for moderating!

Thank you so much "Calling Out and Calling In: How to Globalize the Tech & Democracy Space (and still get funded)" panelists for your candid conversation! Meetali Jain, Adam Fivenson, Toni Friedman, Herman Wasserman, Dhanaraj Thakur (@[email protected]), & our brilliant moderator Burcu Baykurt🔥 #GloTechLab

Thank you, Val Paskar! ✨🤩

"...transactional ties, where the tech industry deliberately exploits cash-strapped public institutions and asserts its expertise in data science. Under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have turned the state into a reliant client." -Burcu Baykurt GloTech Lab

🥳 #GloTechLab research lead Burcu Baykurt just published a new essay “Corporate Capture” Data & Society anthology👇 datasociety.net/library/keywor……

#GloTechLab Community Lead Prof. Seyram Avle @seyramavle and co-author Prof. Jean Hardy Jean Hardy discuss techno-optimism in the latest The Conversation U.S. article. Read here: tinyurl.com/mr2tt4w8

With my brilliant friends at Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…

Vittoria Elliott has a great overview of our arguments and what's at stake in the case in her piece for WIRED: wired.com/story/meta-sec…

GloTech News: New publication by GloTech Lead Burcu Baykurt entitled "Corporate Capture" published in Data & Society anthology: buff.ly/44p0rtB

#GloTechLab senior fellow Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta.

Come hang out with our #GloTechLab fellows (Jonathan Corpus Ong, Nora Suren, PhD Lizhen Zhao Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인, Larri Miller, M.S. (she/they)) at AoIR 2024 in Sheffield, UK AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected]

Join us TODAY at noon in the Communication Hub to hear Professor @bilgeyesil1 talk about her new book, Talking Back to the West! press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087… UMassCommunication SBS UMass Amherst UMass Amherst

We’re excited for next week’s public talk delivered by no other than GloTech Lab's inaugural Postdoc in Race and Digital Politics Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인. Dr Pyo is a global media and political communication scholar with a focus on digital technology and democracy & mediated civic engagement.

Our inaugural postdoc in race and digital politics, Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인, will give a talk this Friday on the new modes of contentious politics in South Korea. It's at noon in the Communication Hub (ILC 301). Do not miss it! UMassCommunication SBS UMass Amherst UMass Amherst

Thanks to Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인 for a fantastic talk today. We can't wait for the book!

We're excited to co-sponsor Eszter Hargittai 😷💉🌻's talk this Friday (11/15) at 130 PM in the Communication Hub! Professor Hargittai will talk about digital inequality in older adults' technology use. Join us if you're around! UMass Amherst SBS UMass Amherst UMassCommunication

We are excited to host “The Phoenix of Gaza XR,” a virtual reality exhibit about Gaza created by Naim Aburaddi & Ahlam Muhtaseb, and a keynote panel featuring them & Helga Tawil-Souri, on Feb 24-25 at ILC. UMass Amherst SBS UMass Amherst Details & registration: glotechlab.net/the-phoenix-of…