The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, has been awarded the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Politics, Communication and Technology. The new Chair aims to undertake an innovative and interdisciplinary research program focused on the social dynamics of automation and AI in political information environments.
The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law Technology and Society is delighted to announce the publication of The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future, written by Faculty Member Dr.Kelly Bronson, and published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau will join the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University this fall to lead enquiry on human-centric cybersecurity frameworks for responsible AI.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois will join the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Societyat Harvard University this fall to lead enquiry into political actors' interactions with artificial intelligence and automated systems.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that the Global Innovation Journalism Lab released From Flies to File Storage: Policy Issues in the Life-Cycle of Explanatory Journalism, a report co-written by CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois and then postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sabrina Wilkinson, with Dr. Heidi Tworek, Elizabeth Ren and Lui Xia Lee. The report examines the life-cycle of explanatory journalism in order to uncover policy challenges and identify how these issues might be addressed.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty members Prof. Jena McGill and Dr. Amy Salyzyn have received the 2021 Martin Felsky Award for excellence in Canadian open legal commentary for their article “Judging by the Numbers: Judicial Analytics, the Justice System and its Stakeholders”.
The AI + Society Initiative is delighted to announce that the short film #tresdancing won the “Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural” award in the “Long Short” category at the Alternative Film Festival.