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HASS Colloquium Series: Disinformation: A Successful Narrative on Shaky Ground by Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Compared to the importance we attribute today to disinformation our reliable knowledge of its effects is still surprisingly low. The few empirical studies on the impact of disinformation so far mainly refer to the USA and Western Europe. They arrive at largely consistent findings, which seem to contradict the public perception of disinformation.
HASS Conversations in Design, Technology, and Society Series | Hazardous Data: The Entanglements of Digital Debt in India
This talk introduces a new research project I will be conducting on digital lending and everyday forms of indebtedness in India through an analysis of scandals around “fake loan apps.” Developed by quasi-legal companies who engaged in aggressive loan recovery tactics “fake loan aps” were responsible for driving several borrowers to commit suicide.
HASS Colloquium Series: Intersecting research and pedagogy: Structures of control and empowerment by Dr Roslynn Ang
My research focuses on the everyday lives of the Indigenous Ainu people as they negotiate the media and cultural landscape of settler colonial Japan and its discourse of racial homogeneity. I critique the normalization of settler society and its structures using various decolonizing methodologies from the Indigenous theoretical traditions.