Data and Democracy

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, and public education. Its aim is to promote a system of free expression that is open and inclusive, that broadens and elevates public discourse, and that fosters creativity, accountability, and effective self-government.

Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

A symposium considering how big data is changing our system of self-government

Today, governments and private actors can collect, store, and continuously update vast troves of data. Yet we have barely begun to understand the impact on our democracy of large-scale data collection and the use of such data sets to make decisions that can dramatically impact individual lives and entire communities.The Data and Democracy Symposium will investigate how technological advances relating to the collection, analysis, and manipulation of data are affecting democratic processes, and it will ask how the law must adapt to ensure the conditions for self-government. Organized by the Institute’s Senior Visiting Research Scholar, Yale Law Professor Amy Kapczynski, and co-sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, the symposium will focus on three areas that are both central to democratic governance and directly affected by advancing technologies and ever-increasing data collection: 1) public opinion formation and access to information; 2) the formation and exercise of public power; and 3) the political economy of data. The symposium will be held online from Thursday, October 15th to Friday, October 16th. Two panels will be held each day, the first from 12:00-1:30PM EST and the second from 2:30-4:00PM EST. Papers presented by scholars including:<ul><li>Hannah Bloch-Wehba (Texas A&amp;M University School of Law)</li></ul><ul><li>John Bowers (Harvard Berkman Klein Center), Elaine Sedenberg* (Harvard Berkman Klein Center and Facebook), and Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard University)</li></ul><ul><li>danah boyd (Data &amp; Society) and Dan Bouk (Colgate University)</li></ul><ul><li>Kiel Brennan-Marquez (University of Connecticut Law) and Daniel Susser (Pennsylvania State University)</li></ul><ul><li>Julie E. Cohen (Georgetown University Law Center)</li></ul><ul><li>Aziz Huq (University of Chicago Law) and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Stanford Law School and the California Supreme Court)</li></ul><ul><li>Frank Pasquale (University of Maryland Carey School of Law)</li></ul><ul><li>Bertrall Ross (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) and Douglas Spencer (University of Connecticut Law)</li></ul><ul><li>Mathias Vermeulen (AWO)</li></ul><ul><li>Wendy Wagner (University of Texas School of Law) and Martin Murillo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)</li></ul><ul><li>Rebecca Wexler (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law)</li></ul>The panel links will be emailed to participants after they RSVP. Updated information about panels and abstracts will be posted <a href="https://knightcolumbia.org/events/data-and-democracy" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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