Events
The following is a list of events from Digital Civil Society Lab. View all events from Stanford PACS.
Upcoming Events
Reviving Africa’s Endangered Civic Spaces
April 28th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - As threats to digital rights continue, it is important to...
2021 Tech and Racial Equity Conference: Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
May 19 - 20th, 2021 - 10:00 am to 5:30 pm PDT - May 19-20 Rapidly developing technologies can be an unprecedented force...
Past Events
The Challenges of Audits, Accountability & Algorithmic Justice
April 14th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - As its popularity and proliferation increase, AI tools are slowly...
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
April 12th, 2021 - 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Kate Crawford is a leading expert on how artificial intelligence is altering...
AI and Democracy: Pursuing the Possibilities
April 8th, 2021 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PDT - Democracy and the Digital Transformation of Our Lives Digital technologies...
How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media: Evidence from a Mixed-Method Field Experiment on Twitter
April 7th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize...
Conversation between Writers of Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
March 19th, 2021 - 9:30 am to 10:30 am PDT - One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is...
I Was Still Black When He Gave Me 200k: Transnational Frictions, Class, and the Tech Entrepreneurial Life
February 17th, 2021 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm - Please join the Center for African Studies and Stanford PACS...
Pre-Conference Session: Syndemic Crises, Philanthropy and Civil Society – A Discussion Of Blueprint 2021
February 16th, 2021 - 9:00 am to 10:00 am PT - Lucy Bernholz, director of the Stanford PACS Digital Civil Society...
Book launch: Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
January 21st, 2021 - 10:00 am to 11:15 am - Join Stanford PACS and Data & Society for a special...
[Virtual Series] Where, What, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure?
November 10th, 2020 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm -
[Virtual Series] Digital Public Infrastructure: A Corporation for Public Software
October 27th, 2020 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am -
[Virtual Series] Digital Public Infrastructural Possibilities
October 20th, 2020 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am -
Race, Technology and Civil Society: Foundations + Intersections
October 9th, 2020 - 9:30 am to 11:00 am - How is racial bias coded into technological systems? Can technology...
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
September 21st, 2020 - 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm - When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their...
[Virtual Event] #RaceTechCS Twitter Chat
July 9th, 2020 - 11:00 am to 12:30 pm - How are technologies being used to surveil BIPOC communities and...
[Virtual Event] Protecting the Black Vote during COVID-19
June 24th, 2020 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am - COVID-19 promises to have a significant impact on the 2020...
[Virtual Event] Legitimizing True Safety
June 3rd, 2020 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am - In 2016, the Detroit Police Department rolled out a real-time...
Barbara van Schewick – Net Neutrality: The Battle to Keep the Internet Open and Free
March 3rd, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - It’s easy to take for granted that we get to...
Jen Schradie – The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives
February 25th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - The internet has been hailed as a leveling force that...
Book Talk | Meaningful Inefficiencies
February 21st, 2020 - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm - Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life—from governing...
Victoria Baines – Rethinking Citizen Engagement in Cybersecurity
February 11th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - Cybersecurity professionals are trained to counter threats and vulnerabilities in...
Catherine Sandoval – Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift: The Hacker Paradigm Obscures Risks of Net Neutrality Repeal
February 4th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - Professor Sandoval unmasks the “hacker paradigm” that pervades cybersecurity analysis...
Race and Digital Civil Society Lightning Talks & Lunch
January 27th, 2020 - 10:45 am to 1:30 pm - Bias in government automated decision systems, the future of farmwork,...
+1 Speaker Series – Abbie van Sickle
January 21st, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - The Comm230X +1 Speaker Series highlights evolving perspectives at the...
Allen Gunn – Another Cloud is Possible: Rethinking Information Infrastructure for Civil Society
January 14th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - As civil society organizations become evermore dependent on digital technologies,...
Consuelo Amat and Natalie Cadranel – Working with History’s Avengers at the Nexus of Academia and Grassroots Technology
November 19th, 2019 - 6:00 pm - How do the worlds of academic research, product development and...
Creating a Just Technological Future
November 13th, 2019 - 11:30 am to 1:00 pm - POSTPONED Due to unavoidable circumstances, this talk has been postponed....
Jay Hamilton – What is Computational Journalism? How Could it Better Support Democracy?
November 5th, 2019 - 6:00 pm - Prof. Jay Hamilton discusses his work at the Stanford Computational...
Digital Civil Society Conference
October 31 - November 1st, 2019 - 9:30 am to 5:00 pm - We depend on digital infrastructure, online information ecosystems, and networked...
Nicole Coleman – Are You Worried About Data Bias? Invest in Libraries
October 29th, 2019 - 6:00 pm - With our most powerful optimizing engines today fueled on information...
Available Light: Photography, Intimacy and Apartheid
October 16th, 2019 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - This event is part of the Africa Research Workshop at...
Sharad Goel – Equitable Algorithms and Computational Policy
October 15th, 2019 - 6:00 pm - Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used to guide decisions by...
Ge Wang – Humans in the Loop: The Artful Design of Technology
October 1st, 2019 - 6:00 pm - How might the shaping of technology make our lives richer...
Digital Civil Society Policy Consultation
May 29th, 2019 - 10:00 am to 3:30 pm - It’s clear that the world is now digital. But why...
Launch of the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index
May 23rd, 2019 - 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm - Join Stanford’s Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi), Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), the...
Technology and Organizing for Racial Justice
May 8th, 2019 - 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm - Join us for a discussion of the ways that technology...
The Future of Human-Centered AI: Governance Innovation and Protection of Human Rights
April 16th, 2019 - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm - This all-day program will tackle the tensions between artificial intelligence...
Old Civic Spaces in New Digital Places: Theorising Kenya’s Digital Civil Society
March 7th, 2019 - 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm - The concept of a digital civil society is a fluid...
The Active Citizen in the Digital Age: Getting Connected
March 6th, 2019 - 5:00 pm - Democracy depends on participation. In the digital era, participation often...
Come Together: Digital Associations and Democracy
February 11th, 2019 - 9:00 am to 5:30 pm - Digital technologies and democracy are topics of intense public discussion....
Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
December 13 - 15th, 2018 - Please note this workshop is invitation-only and not open for...
A Conversation with Virginia Eubanks
November 30th, 2018 - What do the map on your phone, your IRS audit...
Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins
November 28th, 2018 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm - Please join the Digital Civil Society Lab for a lecture...
The Active Citizen in the Digital Age: Mobilization and Representation
November 13th, 2018 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Mobilization and Representation – Aditi Mehta, Tanzila Ahmed, and Alex...
Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
June 27 - 30th, 2018 - Please note this workshop is invitation-only and not open for...
Ordinary Social Listening in a Psychotechnological Age
June 6th, 2018 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Please join us for a talk by Prof. Naomi Waltham-Smith...
Policy Responses to Fake News and Junk Science
May 14 - 15th, 2018 - Please note this workshop is invitation-only and not open for...
Can Democracy Survive the Internet?
May 2nd, 2018 - 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Examine the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns,...
The Active Citizen in the Digital Age: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
April 25th, 2018 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - The Elite Charade of Changing the World – a Conversation...
Social Media and Democracy, with the Social Science Research Council
April 19 - 20th, 2018 - The 2016 American elections intensifed popular as well as scholarly...
Tim Wu – The Curse of Bigness Revisited
February 20th, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm - In the early 20th century, Louis Brandeis first asked whether...
Predict-a-palooza: Civil Society Forecast 2018
January 11th, 2018 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am - Civil society – our shared space and work for the...
The Active Citizen in the Digital Age: Getting Political
December 13th, 2017 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - The Active Citizen in the Digital Age is an ongoing…
What Did Silicon Valley Do to Democracy and the Media?
November 13th, 2017 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm - This panel is part of the Technology and Human Values series at...
Digital Impact World Tour | New York City
October 23rd, 2017 - The Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on…
Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
May 4 - 6th, 2017 - Digital Technology and Democratic Theory is a three-part workshop series and...
Digital Impact: Policy and Practice for the Nonprofit Sector in 2017
January 17th, 2017 - Join panelists Lucy Bernholz, Allen Gunn, Cayden Mak, Riana Pfefferkorn,…