Thought Leadership

2020

• Let’s Weaponize Social Media Against COVID-19

  

  Vivek Krishnamurthy | Slate | May 15, 2020

• Five ways a COVID-19 contact-tracing app could make things worse

  

  Jason Millar | Policy Options | May 15, 2020

• Citizens and their Political Institutions in a Digital Context

  

  Elizabeth Dubois & Florian Martin-Bariteau | B. Dutton, A Research Agenda for Digital Politics, Elgar, 2020, p. 2020

• Side effects may vary: lack of evidence prompts vigilance when considering contact-tracing apps

  

  Jason Millar | The Hill Times | May 6, 2020

• After the tech-lash: new digital policy priorities in the post-pandemic world

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | May 5, 2020

• A look back at what happened in April 2020

  

  The CLTS Monthly Newsletter

• Teresa Scassa publishes “Digital Commerce in Canada”

  Posted on Friday, May 1, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa just published Digital Commerce in Canada with LexisNexis Canada.

• Cybervetting and the Public Life of Social Media Data

  

  Elizabeth Dubois et al. | Social Media + Society, 6:2 (2020)

• Who to Trust on Social Media: How Opinion Leaders and Seekers Avoid Disinformation and Echo Chambers

  

  Elizabeth Dubois et al. | Social Media + Society, 6:2 (2020)

• “Trial by Zoom”: What Virtual Hearings Might Mean for Open Courts, Participant Privacy and the Integrity of Court Proceedings

  

  Amy Salyzyn | Slaw | April 17, 2020