Programme

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Thursday, 24 October 2024

9.15-

Registration 

Language Centre, in front of the Festive Hall (3rd floor)

9.45-10.00

Welcoming words

Mervi Pantti & Risto Kunelius 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

10.00-10.45

Hilde Van Den Bulck (Drexel University):

Epistemic Welfare and the Public Sphere: A Framework to Tackle the Epistemic Crisis

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

11.00-12.30 (12.45)

Session 1:

Media Accountability Between Commercial and Political Pressures 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Programme available here

Session 2:

Audiences, Citizens and Users: Epistemic Needs for Democratic Practices   

Language Centre, S406 (4th floor)

Programme available here

12.30-13.30

Lunch 

Please note that the lunch will be self-funded. 

13.30-15.15

Session 3:

Communication Policy and the Public Good 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Programme available here

Session 4:

Media Accountability and Epistemic Harms

Language Centre, S406 (4th floor)

Programme available here

15.00-15.30

Coffee 

Language Centre, in front of the Festive Hall (3rd floor)

15.30-17.00

Special Session: Freedom of Speech and Platforms

Tarlach McGonagle (University of Amsterdam) 

Mission (Im)possible?: Upholding Epistemic Values and Freedom of Expression in the Face of AI and Platform Power

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Anni Carlsson (Swedish Defence University) 

Riku Neuvonen (University of Helsinki) 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Programme available here

Session 5: Epistemic Wellbeing: Theories and Empirical Conditions 

Language Centre, S406 (4th floor)

Programme available here

17.30-19.00

Reception 

Main Building, Agora (Fabianinkatu 33, 1st floor)

Friday, 25 October 2024

9.30-10.15

Eugenia Siapera (University College Dublin)

Reclaiming Autonomy: Rethinking AI’s Democratic Potential

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

10.30-12.00

Session 6:

Diversity in Journalism 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Programme available here

Session 7:

Platforms and Democracy

Language Centre, S406 (4th floor)

Programme available here

12.00-14.00

Lunch 

Please note that the lunch will be self-funded. 

13.00-13.45

CANCELED

Adrienne Russell (University of Washington):

How Big Tech Shapes Our Understandings and Responses to the Climate Crisis and How We Might Change That

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

14.00-15.30 (15.45)

Session 8:

Politics of Climate Knowledge: Journalists, Platforms and Expertise 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

Programme available here

Session 9:

Journalism: Profession, AI and Epistemic Challenges

Language centre, S406 (4th floor)

Programme available here

15.30-16.00

Coffee

Language Centre, in front of the Festive Hall (3rd floor)

16.00-16.45

Mike Ananny (University of Southern California)

How is Generative AI Made a Public Problem?

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)

16.45-17.00

Concluding words

Hannu Nieminen 

Language Centre, Festive Hall (3rd floor)