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New pub day! In this short commentary I get a little personal and talk about how clumsy and anxious it can be to critique the climate emissions of digital systems... on digital systems. doi.org/10.1177/205630…

Excited to be in Paris for Viva Technology 2023 and this inevitably fun -- and timely -- conversation with Charlie Beckett Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social Jeremy Kahn on #medialiteracy and #AI TOMORROW (Friday) 📍15:50 | Stage 2

Lastly, here's a brilliant and very related piece by Rachel and Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social for AI Now Institute that shows how Big Tech mislabels AI systems as "sustainable" and conceals major ethical issues: tinyurl.com/bdz3fy57. Very relevant to machine translation ethics. (8/8)

Immensely proud of the teams at Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy and MASS LBP for all the work that went into making this happen. It's going to be a special week. digitalassembly.ca

so excited to be at Canadian Museum for Human Rights hosting our Youth Assembly Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy MASS LBP. This day has once again reinforced how engaged and thoughtful youth are in leading policy change in Canada

aaaand it's out! ALGORITHMIC AUTHENTICITY, with @whkchun and others, is available open access from meson press in PDF meson.press/books/algorith…

Defend my PhD thesis? After all it did to me??

On International Day for Democracy, the Forum on Information & Democracy's Observatory announces the appointment of 19 prominent figures for its first steering committee, including Frances Haugen, Jeremy Rifkin, Timothy Garton Ash and Ghassan Salamé. We are delighted to launch the Observatory's

Your move, McGill University Divest McGill theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s…

Delighted that our Deputy Director Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social has been appointed as the Canadian representative for Forum on Information & Democracy Observatory on Information & Democracy alongside senior fellow Frances Haugen The 19 member committee aims to understand the impact of tech on democratic governance

“The misogynistic targeting of Rachel Gilmore’s gender in the sustained online abuse she receives cannot go unnoticed”. There is no ambiguity here.

Catch Proton's founder, @AndyYen, at #Vivatech, discussing the intersection of technology and democracy with ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳, Mitchell Baker, Jeremy Kahn, and Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social. 🗓️ Today, 2:25 pm CET | 8:25 am ET ▶️ Watch the panel livestream on stage 3 here: vivatechnology.com

The first panel of our event Charting the Course: Navigating Climate Justice in the Digital Age has kicked off! With Esli Chan, Geoff Dembicki, Chris Russill, moderated by Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social

So happy to have this finally out in the world!

We welcomed Arif Virani at his alma mater McGill University this morning for a rich round table discussion on online safety and the Online Harms Act - a significant topic in the upcoming fall parliamentary session. @lshape Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social Aengus Bridgman (him/il) Skyler Wang Max Bell School of Public Policy @ReiRabb

Our deputy director Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social is moderating a session today at 10am ET for The International Observatory on Information & Democracy, where she’s the Canadian representative on the steering committee. Today is the global launch of their first report! bit.ly/3WfPWpK

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

our new report on climate obstruction looks at the prevalence of known climate delay narratives in Canada - including the idea that Cdn oil is somehow more "ethical" compared to other countries 🤔 mediatechdemocracy.com/climate-obstru…

Check out the latest episode of Big If True, in which Deputy Director of the Centre, Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social discusses 5 key narratives shaping "The New Climate Denial." Watch the full segment here: tinyurl.com/4d7ztybh