Moderator: Lee Rainie, Pew Internet and American Life Project
16:30 – 16:40 Thanks – end of conference day
Beer & snacks
Programme – Friday 6 December 2019
The second day of the conference is an academic event addressing a research project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation:
The Peoples’ Internet
08:30 – 09:00 Arrival and coffee
09:00 – 10:15 The Peoples’ Internet – preliminary findings
The PIN project with contributions from national teams: China, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, UK, US
Q&A
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 In the field, on the ground
Fiona Huijie Zeng (China), Signe Sophus Lai (Denmark), Jesper Pagh (USA)
Q&A
11:30 – 12:00 Commentaries from the PIN Scientific Advisory Board
Fernando Bermejo, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Sun Sun LIM, Lee Rainie
Q&A
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 13:45 Lessons from other regions
Gregory Asmolov: ‘The role of users in the development of the Russian internet’
Norbert Wildermuth: ‘A “poor” Internet for the less privileged: on evolving and persistent digital divisions in Africa’
Ramesh Srinivasan: ‘Beyond the Valley: An Internet in the Image of the Global 99%’
Q&A
13:45 – 14:30 Lessons in theory and methodology
David Karpf: ‘Is Internet Time Slowing Down?’
Richard Rogers: ‘Critical Analytics for Social Media’
Q&A
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 The future of the internet – a research agenda
Christian Sandvig: ‘The Feed as a New and Enduring Genre of Information’
Jack Qiu: ‘Counter-Hegemonies: Organic Research and Praxis for the People's Internet’
Q&A, Discussion
16:30 – 16:45 Thanks – end of conference day
Beer & snacks
Keynote speakers
Flemming Besenbacher
Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation and Carlsberg Group and professor at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University.
Rasmus Helles
Co-PI of The Peoples’ Internet project. He is Associate Professor of Communication and IT at the University of Copenhagen, and has worked on comparative studies of internet use and internet governance in several publications. In the PIN project, he has led the work on comparisons of national regulation and infrastructures. He also has also led a project on the relationship between online tracking and national cultures and regulatory practices. Before working on the PIN project he has worked on global distribution of television, media independence and big data methodologies.
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and a political activist. Founder of the Creative Commons movement that works for the development of alternatives to traditional copyright regimes. Author of a long and influential list of books that have set agendas for both scholarly and public debate on technology, law, and social development. His current work addresses “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy. Today, Professor Lessig will address the question, “Is the ‘surveillance society’ a ‘society’?”
Rebecca MacKinnon
Author, researcher, activist, and a Fellow at the thinktank New America, where she directs the project Ranking Digital Rights which ranks IT sector companies on criteria of freedom of expression and privacy. She is a former journalist at CNN, where she headed the Beijing and Tokyo bureaus. She has also been a fellow affiliated with Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Hong Kong, and she is the author of the book, Consent of the networked: the worldwide struggle for internet freedom. Here, Ms. MacKinnon will speak about “The next 50 years – sustaining democracy and human rights.”
Steve Hatch
Vice President for Facebook, Northern Europe. Since his appointment in March 2014, Steve has driven a fundamental evolution on the platform, namely the explosion of video consumption, and the commercialization of Instagram. Prior to joining Facebook in 2014, Steve worked in Y&R, Omnicom and WPP where he spent 15 years, with his final role as CEO of MEC. Steve is a non-executive Director of Trinity Mirror PLC and is the Chair of the Confederation of British Industry Tech group. His co-authored 'Rigorous Magic’ was published in 2007.
Sun Sun Lim
Professor of Communication and Technology and Head of Cluster (Dean) of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She has researched and lectured extensively on the social impact of technology, authoring more than 70 articles, book chapters and books. Her latest books are
Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020),
Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (Springer, 2016) and
Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (Routledge, 2016). She serves on the editorial boards of twelve journals and has contributed actively to public bodies including the Media Literacy Council and the National Youth Council. She frequently offers her expert commentary in international news outlets and is currently serving as a Nominated Member of Parliament in the 13th Parliament of Singapore. She holds a PhD and MSc (Distinction) in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics.
Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice President-Designate of the European Commission with special responsibilities for Europe in the digital age, and until recently served as European Commissioner for Competition. She was a member of the Danish parliament 2001-2014, and served as Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior 2011-2014. Ms. Vestager is perhaps most well-known as the commissioner launching cases against companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple.
Rikke Frank Jørgensen
Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Her research focuses on human rights and technology, online public life, freedom of expression, privacy, and data protection. She recently published the edited volume, Human rights in the age of platforms, from MIT Press, with contributions from, among others, Shoshana Zuboff, the author of The age of surveillance capitalism.
Fernando Bermejo
Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and research and program director of Media Cloud, an open-source platform for media analysis. He is also associated with IE University in Madrid. His research focuses on different ways of measuring the internet, including the role of people, content, and infrastructure.