Is "Big Tech" too powerful?

Prof. Amber Wichowsky

An engaging conversation about the social and ethical dilemmas posed by emerging digital technologies.

Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union, 227

Speaker Series and Dialogue Dinners

The Marquette Civic Dialogues Program offers programming (speaker series, dialogue dinners, and student-driven events) in which the Marquette community and the public can engage in civic and civil discussion to address pressing issues facing our country.

Debates about the power of big tech have grown in recent years. Has the rise of big tech undermined economic competitiveness and democracy? Should we reform how we regulate tech platforms? Does content moderation threaten free speech? What should we do to protect privacy on the internet? Is there a national security case for breaking up big tech?The Civic Dialogues Program will host Professor Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt University) and Professor Michael Zimmer (Marquette University) to discuss these issues and more. We invite students to join this importance conversation. A light lunch will be served. We ask that students register by noon, Friday September 23rd so that we have an accurate headcount. Professor Sitaraman holds the New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School. He is the author of several books, including The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America (2019), The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (2017), and The Counterinsurgent's Constitution: Law in the Age of Small Wars (2012). A public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Professor Sitaraman has also been a longtime advisor to Elizabeth Warren. He has been profiled in The New York Times and Politico for his work at the nexus of politics and ideas.Dr. Michael Zimmer is a privacy and data ethics scholar whose work focuses on digital privacy &amp; surveillance, the ethics of big data, internet research ethics, and the broader social &amp; ethical dimensions of emerging digital technologies. Dr. Zimmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University, and Director of the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society. He is an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, as well as the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute.

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