Join us on January 24 at 12:30 in ASC 236 for Gabriel Laender’s discussion, “Blockchain for Policy: a Pragmatic Assessment.”
Gabriel Laender is a Brazilian attorney, ICT researcher and legal tech entrepreneur. He was policy advisor to the Strategic Affairs Secretariat of the President´s Office (SAE), and later became telecommunication advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Executive Office of the President (Casa Civil), where he coordinated the regulatory aspects of the Brazilian National Broadband Plan…. Read More » “January 24, Gabriel Laender — “Blockchain for Policy: A Pragmatic Assessment””

Join us on November 8 to hear Dr. Tianshu Sun (University of Southern California Marshall School of Business). Tianshu Sun’s research conducted in collaboration with leading private and public sector platforms addresses how firms can use business analytics and large-scale field experiments in conjunction with big data to improve business decisions. His current research focuses on understanding 1) how digital platforms can use IT-enabled and analytics-driven interventions to influence information sharing among individuals, and 2) how organizations can leverage mobile devices and Internet of Things to influence individuals’… Read More » “November 8, Tianshu Sun (USC Marshall): Displaying Things in Common to Encourage Friendship Formation”

The promise of mobile broadband for minority communities
Please join us on Thursday, October 18 at 12:30 pm in ASC 236. We will hear from James E. Prieger, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
This seminar will review research on the broadband digital divide for minorities in the U.S., and the particular promise that mobile broadband may hold. Compared to white populations, some minorities have fewer fixed broadband options but more mobile broadband providers available…. Read More » “James Prieger (Pepperdine University): The promise of mobile broadband for minority communities”

Please join us on Thursday, October 4th at 12:30 in ASC 230 for our next ARNIC meeting. 
In this meeting, we will plan for the academic year and share research projects and ideas from our members. Professors Hernán Galperin and François Bar will discuss updates on the Connecting Skid Row project, Annenberg PhD students Matt Bui and Rachel Moran will talk about their recent experience and award at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, and Annenberg PhD student Anna Loup will share some recent ideas on the political economy of infrastructure risk…. Read More » “Next ARNIC Meeting: October 4 (Internal Planning/Research Projects)”

ICTD is dead—long live ICTD.
After the experience of three years as founding director of an information and communication technology and development (ICTD) research institute within the United Nations, along with the many global challenges experienced within today’s cyberspace, Dr. Michael L. Best believes that the ICTD research community is undertaking a necessary reboot. A number of core tenants of digital systems are now being questioned: Is more online speech necessarily good? Is openness desirable?… Read More » “Dr. Michael L. Best to speak on ICTD research at ARNIC lunchtime seminar”

ARNIC will be joined by Mizuko Ito at our lunchtime seminar series on March 20th. 
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She is Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine. She is director of the Connected Learning Lab, and chairs the MacArthur Connected Learning Research Network…. Read More » “Mizuko Ito to speak at ARNIC lunchtime seminar 03/20”

Next week Dr Myria Georgiou will be joining the ARNIC seminar. She will be giving a talk titled: Representing Others, representing Us: The “refugee crisis” in the European Press.
Her presentation will map out the key parameters of media language that defined Europe’s “refugee crisis” during its 2015 peak. The discussion draws from a cross-national content analysis that asked who speaks in the news, how and whether their speech endows refugees and migrants with the capacity to be recognized as humans and as citizens…. Read More » “Visiting Lecturer Talk – Myria Georgiou (LSE)”

ARNIC will have guest speaker ‘Ramesh Srinivasan’ on November 16th 2017. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments. He is the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab, exploring the meaning of technology worldwide as it spreads to the far reaches of our world. He is also the author of the books: “Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World” with NYU Press,… Read More » “Technology and Cultural Agency: Moving Past the Myth of Western Singularity”

Visiting scholar Ellen Helsper will be giving a talk October 12th, 2017, in ASC 225. 
Talk description: Digital inequalities theories focus on structural and individual factors to explain the links between social and digital inequalities. Research suggests the existence of vicious cycles where those who are better off in a traditional sense are able to take up the opportunities that ICTs offer to a greater extent than those with fewer resources. However,… Read More » “Visiting lecturer talk: Ellen Helsper on urban, digital inequality”