Conferences

The PERITIA Conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ took place on 18 & 19 March, 2021. This multidisciplinary conference brought together outstanding researchers from all over the world to discuss how best to assess, establish and maintain the credibility and trustworthiness of expertise in a rapidly changing media environment. Scholars presented their latest findings on questions …

Keynote speaker Natali Helberger at the PERITIA Conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ Read More »

Tom gave a lunch lecture at the Kiesraad, the Dutch electoral council. He spoke about political microtargeting, disinformation, and presented ICDS’s online ad dashboard. During the presentation Tom showed how Forum voor Democratie is by far the most active advertiser, that the more leftist parties (except for SP) target more women while the more rightist …

Tom Dobber presented the political dashboard at the Kiesraad Read More »

Last week, Jef Ausloos gave an invited tutorial at the ACM FAT* Conference in Barcelona. This conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. Jointly with Damian Clifford (ANU) and Laurens Naudts (KU Leuven), Jef presented his work on the concept of “fairness” in EU data protection law. …

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On Thursday January 23rd, ICDS hosted a panel at CPDP 2020 in Brussels. The panel was titled “Algorithms and AI-driven technologies in the information society”, and included David Graus (Data Scientist), Ben Lyons (head of policy review at CDEI), Sille Søe (postdoc at University of Copenhagen) and Natali Helberger (professor at University of Amsterdam) as …

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