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Digital Economy and Society Discussion Series #1: How is digital transformation changing the future of work and skills?

A person in a plaid shirt gestures with their hands while speaking during a meeting. In the foreground, a notebook and phone are on the table. In the background, a laptop screen displays a colorful chart, and another person is visible but out of focus.

In this public discussion event, leading experts in their field offer insights about current and possible future transformations in the fields of employment and education.

Digital Cultural Heritage: Emotional Engagement, Storytelling & Co-creation

Two children with braided hair and headphones, wearing red and white uniforms, look at a tablet on display in a museum. Ancient pottery and artifacts are in the background. Colorful dots are scattered across the image.

Digital cultural heritage interpretation had expanded over the last few years in an effort to attract diverse audiences and engage them more deeply. However, this remains challenging and raises a number of issues that the talk will address, such as the role of emotional engagement and digital storytelling when balancing facts and fiction, and the … Read more

Book Launch – Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

Fred Domer makes an adjustment to the position of a unit before it is tested in an anechoic chamber in the Payload Checkout Facility at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

In the seminar, Ben Collier will introduce the new book, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press, 2024).

Datafied Publics: Inaugural Event for EFI Critical Data Studies Cluster

A laptopogram displaying a dataset as cloud-like clusters of black blobs on a neutral background. There are three larger collections, almost resembling a map, with some data points leaking out into the negative space.

This event asks how people politically mobilise when subject to data systems that algorithmically govern them but remain opaque.

Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context

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