Events

Upcoming Events

Information Access Seminar: Clifford Lynch

Jan 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Does Email Suppress Turnout on Election Day? Experimental Evidence from the 2016 General Election

Jan 30, 2019, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm

Massive impersonal unsolicited email campaigns might actually backfire.

The Times They Are A-Changin’: The Influence of Scandal and Experience on Users’ Attitudes to Social Media Data Control

Feb 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Has widespread news of abuse made people more protective of their personal data?

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Feb 20, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to “disrupt” education and development?

Information Access Seminar: Rosalie Lack

Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data

Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism

Mar 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

When algorithms are used for predicting recidivism, do they make the criminal justice system more fair and accurate, or do they perpetuate racial bias?

Community-Owned Data Publishing: California Digital Library’s new partnership with Dryad

Mar 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Daniel Kluttz

Mar 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

DataEDGE 2019

Apr 23 2019 - All-day event

Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.