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The Princeton CITP Newsletter
✨ News, Events and Highlights ✨
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A Special Welcome from CITP Director Arvind Narayanan ...
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Welcome back to CITP!
As the center’s new director, I look forward to building on the strong leadership of my predecessors. It’s an exciting time for us as the topics that we work on — such as machine learning and privacy and security — are more relevant to society than ever. CITP is in a rich phase of growth. Last year we launched the CITP Digital Witness Lab, led by data journalist Surya Mattu, and this spring Peter Henderson will join our core faculty at Sherrerd Hall as an assistant professor, bringing his expertise in AI, law and policy. I look forward to an invigorated in-person event series, including our weekly Tuesday seminars, reading groups, workshops, and conferences. Finally, this year we welcome a stellar cast of seven new fellows. Please read about them below.
Sincerely,
Arvind
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Each year, CITP welcomes new distinguished researchers and scholars to our community as part of our Fellows Program. Please meet our seven new fellows for the 2023-24 year:
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Dan Calacci is a postdoctoral research associate who studies the socio-technical and legal impacts of datafication and AI on communities. They currently focus on designing technologies with workers and community members to answer questions about the impacts of AI, new platforms, and surveillance.
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Ryan Calo, a visiting fellow, is a professor of law and information science at the University of Washington where he co-founded the Tech Policy Lab and Center for an Informed Public. His research centers around privacy, misinformation, and the legal and policy aspects of emerging technology. Find him at @rcalo on X/Twitter and Bluesky and on LinkedIn.
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Benjamin Mako Hill is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and a founding member of the Community Data Science Collective. He works to understand the social dynamics that shape online communities engaged in the peer production of digital public goods like Wikipedia and Linux.
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Basileal Imana, a postdoctoral research associate, conducts research on developing novel methods for auditing the fairness of algorithms used to deliver content on social media platforms without introducing new privacy risks to platforms and users.
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Alice Marwick, a Microsoft Visiting Professor, is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at UNC Chapel Hill and principal researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP). Her research examines the sociocultural impact of social media. She is also writing a book questioning the idea of “online radicalization.” Find her on social media at @alicetiara.
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Kevin Munger is the Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor of Political Science, and an assistant professor of political science and social data analytics at Penn State University. Kevin's research focuses on the implications of the internet and social media for the communication of political information.
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Nitya Nadgir, an Emerging Scholar, is a Tufts University graduate with experience analyzing privacy policy, promoting government transparency, and researching the media ecosystem. Her interests include data privacy, surveillance, and media-driven polarization.
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CITP fellow Jordan Brensinger presented The Social Production of “Accurate” Personal Financial Data at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. His talk argued that data accuracy in consumer banking is the product of sociotechnical negotiations that favor financial institutions over consumers.
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- Tuesday, September 12: 12:30-1:30 p.m., CITP Seminar: Arvind Narayanan – Five Useful Things to Know About Tech Policy
- Tuesday, September 19: 12:30-1:30 p.m., CITP Seminar: Shazeda Ahmed – The Epistemic Culture of AI Safety
- Thursday, September 21: Learn from researchers, technologists, academics and other experts about how to cultivate a responsible open source AI ecosystem at the Workshop on Responsible and Open Foundation Models organized by researchers at Princeton CITP and the Center for Research on Foundation Models at Stanford University. RSVP here to attend and send questions to Sayash Kapoor or Rishi Bommasani.
- Tuesday, September 26: 12:30-1:30 p.m., CITP Seminar: Alice Marwick – Beyond the Binary: How LGBTQ+ People Negotiate Networked Privacy
- Tuesday, October 3: 12:30-1:30 p.m., CITP Seminar: Surya Mattu – Breaking The Black Box: How CITP’s Digital Witness Lab Uses Data-Driven Investigations to Expose Surveillance and Misinformation
Check the CITP website "Events" page for the latest events!
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Did you know that Princeton CITP is on LinkedIn? Connect with us!
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The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary hub where researchers study digital technologies for the good of society. CITP is an initiative of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).
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This newsletter is written and designed by CITP Communications Manager Karen Rouse. Send questions, comments or suggestions to CITPComms@princeton.edu.
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