Events

February 3, 2023

ChatGPT in Context

What is ChatGPT? Where did it come from? What does it mean for science, scholarship, and public life? Join our interdisciplinary panel for a discussion of this new technology and its real and imagined impacts on the campus community.

January 19, 2023

Elizabeth Dubois: When hate and harassment are just a part of the job

Thursday, January 19 at 3:30pm – Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall For many political journalists and health communicators, exposing themselves to hate, harassment, and credibility attacks online is an unavoidable part of the job. Drawing from interviews, surveys, and content analyses of tweets, this lecture shows how facing negativity everyday can make it harder…

November 10th, 2022

Tamara K. Nopper: Crime Data and Policing Data as Open Data

Thursday, November 10 at 3:00pm – Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

October 6, 2022

Nancy Leong: Capitalizing on Identity in Public Life

Thursday, October 6 at 3:00pm – Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

September 23, 2022

Victor Ray on Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters & Why You Should Care

Friday, September 23 at 11:00am – Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

September 22, 2022

Francesca Tripodi Presents The Propagandists’ Playbook with a Q&A Featuring Victor Ray

Dr. Francesca Tripodi presents The Propagandists’ Playbook with a Q&A featuring Victor Ray. Thursday, September 22 at 3:00pm
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-CH

May 25, 2022

What Comes After Disinformation Studies?

An ICA Pre-Conference.

May 5, 2022

Catherine Knight Steele on Digital Black Feminism

Catherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland – College Park and the author of Digital Black Feminism.

April 21, 2022

Jonathan Ong on the Politics and Ethics of Representing ‘The Trolls’

Jonathan Corpus Ong is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media in the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.

April 7, 2022

André Brock on Race and Technoculture

André Brock is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media & Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

March 10, 2022

Jessa Lingel on the Craigslist Ethic: A Web 1.0 Vision of Online Democracy

Jessa Lingel is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.

February 3, 2022

Mary Anne Franks on The Free Speech Industry: How the Internet Commodifies Freedom

Dr. Mary Anne Franks is Professor of Law and Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami.