Upcoming Events

Lilian Coral (New America) – Trump’s Tech Governance: Making Sense of the Administration’s First 100 Days

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 4/15 at 5:00PM PT led by Lilian Coral titled: “Trump’s Tech Governance: Making Sense of the Administration’s First 100 Days“ About the Talk At a time when there is a slew of new information surrounding the administration’s quick and vast executive actions, the Open Technology Institute (OTI)…

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Dr. V. Sridhar (IIIT-Bangalore, India) – “My data or yours?”: Unravelling Multi-Party Privacy (MPP) amongst Consumers of Digital Credit in India

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 3/25 at 5:00PM PT led by Dr. V. Sridhar titled “My data or yours?”: Unravelling Multi-Party Privacy (MPP) amongst Consumers of Digital Credit in India About the Talk India has witnessed exponential growth in digital financial innovation. Digital credit, which forms a subset of digital financial services,…

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Past Events

Thomas Hazlett – Rent Seeking for Non-Exclusive Spectrum Rights in the 5.9 GHz Band

Friday, November 12th, 2021

Professor Thomas Hazlett will be discussing “Rent Seeking for Non-Exclusive Spectrum Rights in the 5.9 GHz Band” on Friday, November 12, 2021. Thomas Hazlett is Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics at Clemson University. In Fall 2021, he is also the Dunn Distinguished Visiting Research Professor in Economics at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University.  He has previously held…

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Amy Gonzales – Importance of Access to Digital Technology for Building and Maintaining Social Capital and Quality of Life

Friday, November 5th, 2021

Join our seminar next Friday, November 5 at 9:30 AM PT to hear from Professor Amy Gonzales. She will be speaking on “Importance of Access to Digital Technology for Building and Maintaining Social Capital and Quality of Life.” We are reliant on digital technology for nearly every aspect of daily life, including searching for jobs,…

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John Horrigan – What we know about closing the digital divide

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Join us on October 22nd at 9:30 AM for Dr. John Horrigan’s talk, “What we know about closing the digital divide” With the pandemic putting a spotlight on the digital divide, stakeholders at all levels of government have turned their attention to closing it. The federal government has launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit – an…

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Data Localization Regulations and their Impact on Digital Trade: Prof. Varadharajan Sridhar (IIT Bangalore)

Friday, May 28th, 2021

Governments around the world have been restricting cross border data flow through “data localization” regulations, driven in part by concerns of privacy, national security, surveillance, and cyber terrorism. In this seminar, Prof. Varadharajan Sridhar (IIT Bangalore) will discuss his research on data localization and digital trade. Dr. V. Sridhar is Professor at the Centre for…

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Sergio Godoy – WIP Chile 4.0: The Power of Attitudes and Perceptions About Covid 19 in Chile and the World

Friday, March 19th, 2021

Join us on March 19th at 12PM PST for Sergio Godoy’s Presentation “WIP Chile 4.0: The Power of Attitudes and Perceptions About Covid 19 in Chile and the World”  For the Zoom link, please register here. Perhaps the main enemy in this pandemic is not the germ known as Covid-19 but ourselves. Rather, our perceptions…

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Jeffrey Cole – Research Projects at the Center for the Digital Future

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Join us on January 29th @ 12:00 pm PST for Jeffrey Cole’s overview of the research projects at the Center of the Digital Future.    Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center of the Digital Future (https://www.digitalcenter.org) will outline current research coming out of the Center. The session will focus on: 1. The World Internet Project…

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The New Latin America: Fernando Calderon and Manuel Castells

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

Join us on December 3rd @10:00 am PST for Fernando Calderon and Manuel Castells’s Book Discussion, “The New Latin America”  Register at: https://bit.ly/thenewlatinamerica In their important new book, leading scholars Fernando Calderon (University of Cambridge and UNSAM Argentina) and Manuel Castells (University of Southern California) explain how new social movements, women, youth, indigenous people, and…

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You Know What Happened. But, Why Did It Happen? And, How Can We Make It Better by 2024?

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

Join us on November 10th @12:30pm for Jonathan Aronson’s post-election debriefing, “You Know What Happened. But, Why Did It Happen? And, How Can We Make It Better by 2024?”  Jonathan Aronson is professor of communication at USC Annenberg and professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at USC Dornsife. Aronson writes on…

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Data Colonialism and Its Discontents: Towards A Non-Aligned Technologies Movement

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

Join us on October 13th @12:30pm for Nick Couldry, Ulises Mejias, and Juan Ortiz Freuler’s discussion, “Data Colonialism and Its Discontents: Towards A Non-Aligned Technologies Movement.”  In their new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019), Couldry and Mejias argue that today’s…

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Expert Panel on Internet Governance

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

Join us on Tuesday, October 6th @ 12:30 to meet the experts working in the Internet Governance field. The Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC) is inviting for a special session of its regular research seminar that will focus on emerging themes and ongoing challenges in Internet Governance. Please join us for a panel…

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