/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/3260/all en /maxbellschool/channels/event/platforms-power-and-democracy-352723 <p>Join <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CBC Ideas’ host Nahlah Ayed</a> and renowned international experts <a href="https://joandonovan.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blan</body></html>"></a></p> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:42:36 +0000 keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca 3102 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/we-are-crisis-knowledge-and-it-couldnt-have-happened-worse-time-globe-and-mail-352208 <p>October 20, 2023 | This opinion piece by <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a> talks about the reasoning behind why he decided to take a break from X, formerly Twitter, a platform he has been using as a gateway to information for over a decade. </p> <p>He said "the platform is now broken. Where it once filtered valuable information about the world in a timely manner, it is now calibrated to anger and extremes under the ownership of a spiteful billionaire clearly caught in an ideological rabbit hole."</p> Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:31:34 +0000 kibel.aker@mcgill.ca 3091 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/curbing-online-harms-cbc-radio-340047 <p>June 20, 2022 | With the <a href="https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/projects/democratic-expression">Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression</a>'s new report hot off the press, Commission co-chair and Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a> sat down for an interview with CBC Radio to discuss the recommendations on curbing online harm that he and his colleagues have proposed.</p> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:14:11 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2854 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/whose-speech-will-elon-musks-twitter-be-protecting-exactly-globe-and-mail-339301 <p>April 27, 2022 | <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a> and Supriya Dwivedi of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy write that Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter might strengthen the democratic governance that social media companies have fought against.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-whose-speech-will-elon-musks-twitter-be-protecting-exactly/">>>Read the article</a></p> Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:08:46 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 2823 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/screen-time-podcast-centre-media-technology-and-democracy-338703 <p>March 25, 2022 | <em>Screen Time</em> podcast is an eight-episode podcast miniseries that explores the rapidly evolving relationship between kids and technology. Co-hosted by Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a>, who also directs the School's <a href="https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com">Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy</a>, Catch up on the first three episodes:</p> Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:56:34 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2805 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/evaluating-state-platform-governance-agenda-schwartz-reisman-institute-337815 <p>February 11, 2022 | As part of the Schwartz Reisman Institute's Seminar Series, Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a> delivered a presentation on the regulatory frameworks governments are putting in place to mitigate the potential negative impacts of digital ecosystems, including Big Tech social media platforms.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJlPReG9Xw">Watch the seminar</a>.</p> Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:44:45 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2785 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/cmhr-host-virtual-symposium-online-hate-winnipeg-sun-334689 <p>November 8, 2021 | Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a> recently spoke at a virtual symposium hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. “We’ve had this experience where everybody needs to know similar things and trust similar institutions, and even behave in similar ways, (like) taking a vaccine. It’s difficult because antivax content and misinformation about the vaccine, and about the pandemic itself, has been incentivized to circulate far and wide.”</p> Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:21:19 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2708 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/we-have-regulatory-tools-we-need-fix-facebook-globe-and-mail-334185 <p> October 14, 2021 | In this opinion piece, Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a>, former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin, and chair of the Canadian Citizens' Assembly on Democratic Expression, Peter MacLeod argue that the latest Facebook controversy surrounding the testimony by Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen has the potential to change the debate about regulating social media. They also explain why the <a href="/maxbellschool/research/centre-media-technol</body></html>"></a></p> Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:38:36 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 2696 at /maxbellschool