Researching Ethics / Ethics of Research: Challenges of Data, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

The third instalment of the “Ethics ex Machina: Agency, Autonomy, and Accountability in the Digital Media Environment” workshop series

Programme

October 12
Södertörn University
Location: UB425, Library building
Commuter train station: Flemingsberg

9.30-10     Fika

10-12        Session 1. Chair: Stina Bengtsson
10-10.15     Welcome and logistics
10.15     Keynote address, David Gunkel: The Relational Turn: An Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond
11:15     Mats Bergman and Henrik Rydenfelt: Meaning ex machina? Pragmatic Perspectives on Communicative Machines

12.30         Lunch

13.30-16     Session 2. Chair: Henrik Rydenfelt
13.30     Randa Romanova: Similar media systems, different self-regulation: A closer look at the Nordic media accountability models. 
14.15    Saralie Sernhede: Fridays for Future as an Alternative Educational Context: actor-networks, media practices, and the emergence of citizens of the world in times of crises.
15         Fika     
15.30    Klaus Bruhn Jensen: Green surveillance: Recovering the concept of surveillance for transformative communication research.

October 13
Stallet, van der Nootska palatset
St Paulsgatan 21, Stockholm (Södermalm)
    
9.30-10     Fika

10-12        Session 1. Chair: Stina Bengtsson
10     Salla-Maaria Laaksonen and Erjon Skenderi: Tinder for Working Life: Ethical Considerations for Using Digital Chat Data in Organizations.

11     Göran Bolin: Communicative AI and Techno-Semiotic Mediatization: Understanding the Communicative Role of the Machine.

12-13        Lunch

13-15        Session 2. Chair: Mats Bergman

13    Stefanie Sirén-Heikel: Agency lost in the machine? – The ethical dilemmas of researching job automation.

14         Joint discussion about future collaborations    

14.30        Fika and farewell