BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Power Switch\; How Power is Changing in a Networked World - an international symposium - An international panel of speakers DTSTART:20170331T083000Z DTEND:20170331T173000Z UID:TALK70180@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Professor John Naughton DESCRIPTION:*Background*\n\nRecent decades have seen the rise of a number of large US technology companies - Alphabet (Google's holding company)\, F acebook\, Microsoft\, Amazon and Apple - which have achieved global domina nce in their original fields (digital technology) and are now moving into other markets (healthcare\, mobility\, hotels\, media\, to name just four) . The scale and reach -- as well as the wealth -- of these corporations r evives old concerns about corporate power and its regulation (for example in relation to monopoly and data protection). But their dominance also ra ises new questions deriving from the distinctive affordances of digital te chnology and the companies' mastery of it. In what ways is the power that they wield different from older kinds of corporate power? How should the power flowing from mastery of the technology be conceptualised? What kind s of regulatory approaches are viable in this new environment? Where does corporate responsibility begin and end in applications of Artificial Intel ligence? And can the nation state effectively regulate these new global e ntities?\n\nThis symposium\, which is hosted by the Technology and Democra cy project at CRASSH\, will consider these and related issues. \n\nConfir med speakers include:\n\n* "Ariel Ezrachi":https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people /ariel-ezrachi) is Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law\, Univer sity of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and P olicy. He is co-author (with Maurice Stucke) of "_Virtual Competition: Th e Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy"_:(http://amzn.to/2iz YRNK) (2016).\n\n* "Emily Bell":http://towcenter.org/academics/emily-bell/ \, is the founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Co lumbia Journalism School. She is a former editor-in-chief of _Guardian_ w ebsites and was Director of Digital content for Guardian News and Media. S he was the 2015 _Humanitas_ Professor of Media at Cambridge University and her "lecture":http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/emily-bell-the-en d-of-the-news-as-we-know-it-how-facebook-swallowed-journal\, "The End of t he News as We Know It: How Facebook Swallowed Journalism" sparked a global debate which culminated in the controversies about "fake news" during the 2016 US Presidential election.\n\n* "Ronald Deibert":https://deibert.citi zenlab.org/ is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of "_Black Code_":http://amzn.to/2ibKaQ3 and a leading schol ar on the intersection of digital technologies\, global security and human rights.\n\n* "Siva Vaidhyanathan":https://mediastudies.virginia.edu/peopl e/sv2r is the Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies\, University of Virginia. Author of "_The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)_":http://amzn.to/2jljBZE and numerous other works. \n\n* "Ross Ande rson":https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/ is Professor of Security Engineerin g at the University of Cambridge and a leading expert on the technology\, economics and psychology of computer security. He was awarded the 2016 "L ovelace Medal":http://academy.bcs.org/content/lovelace-medal -- given to " individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding or advancement of computer science". \n\n* "John Naughton":http://memex.n aughtons.org/about is a Senior Research Fellow at CRASSH\, co-director of the 'Technology and Democracy' project and the _Observer_'s technology col umnist. His most recent book is "_From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet_":http://amzn.to/2ie46EY.\n\n* "Law rence Quill":http://www.sjsu.edu/people/lawrence.quill/ is Professor of Po litical Science at San Jose State University. His books include "_Secrets and Democracy: From Arcana Imperii to WikiLeaks_":http://amzn.to/2iV2DlF and he will be a Visiting Fellow on Technology and Democracy project later this year.\n\n* "Martin Moore":http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/policy-institute /CMCP/People.aspx is Director of the Centre for the Study of Media\, Commu nication and Power\, and a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College Lond on. He is the author of "_Tech Giants and Civic Power_":www.kcl.ac.uk/ssp p/policy-institute/CMCP/Tech-Giants-and-Civic-Power.pdf (2016).\n\n* "Davi d Runciman":http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Staff_and_Students/professor-david- runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and co-director of the 'Technology and Democracy' project. His most recent book is "_The C onfidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the P resent_":http://amzn.to/2iA3xDc.\n\n* "Ellen P. Goodman":https://law.rutge rs.edu/directory/view/1020 is Professor of Law at Rutgers University and c o-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL). S he is also a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenb erg School of Communication and has been a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Federal Communications Commission. Ellen has written on digital platforms \, the Internet of Things\, spectrum and net neutrality policy\, free expr ession and advertising law\, and public media\, and is currently working o n data transparency and civic tech projects.\n\n* "Malte Ziewitz":http://z wtz.org/ is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Science & Technolo gy Studies at Cornell University. His research revolves around the practic alities of (e)valuation\, governance\, and accountability in digitally net worked environments.\n\n* "Seda Guerses":https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosi c/?page_id=96 is a FWO post-doctoral fellow at COSIC/ESAT in the Departmen t of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven\, Belgium and a Research Associat e at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton Univers ity. Her research focusses on conceptions of privacy and surveillance in online social networks\, requirements engineering\, privacy enhancing tech nologies and identity management systems. \n\n* "Mireille Hildebrandt":htt p://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/members/hildebrandt/ is Research Professor on Inter facing Law and Technology in the Research Group for Law Science Technology and Society\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Chair of Smart Environments\ , Data Protection and the Rule of Law in the Institute of Computing and I nformation Sciences at Radboud University in Nijmegen.\n\n LOCATION:Cripps Court\, Magdalene College END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR