[Commlist] Workshop on AI, Social Media + Society

FREE WORKSHOPS ON AI, SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY (London, Berlin, Nairobi)

University of Munich’s (LMU) SMALL PLATFORMS research group is 
organising a series of workshops on the state of social media and AI 
that may be of special interest to your Communications and Media Studies 
students(all levels and disciplines are welcome). We would appreciate it 
if you could share information about the workshops with your students. 
See below for registration and a full description:


The workshops will take place:

London 13–15 May @ Goldsmiths
— Register here 
<https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-london/>

Berlin 19–21 May@ silent green — Register here 
<https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-berlin/>

Nairobi 10–12 June @ British Council — Register here 
<https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-nairobi/>


Participation is free.

Lunch, snacks and drinks will be served on all three days of the workshop.


[FULL DESCRIPTION]

How do we understand social media and AI as communicators? What have 
they done to our social and political life? How do we untether ourselves 
and reflect on what binds us to social media and AI—each day and every 
instance—of this hyper-mediated attention economy?


Join us for this immersive 3-day workshop where we will deep dive into 
one of the most important conversations of our time.


The workshop features masterclasses, learning seminars, interactive 
games, and collaborative exercises—to together think through AI and 
social media. You will create and analyze fakes, role play as a social 
media founder, participate in lectures, record podcasts and get busy 
with “data”.


REGISTER:

London 13–15 May @ Goldsmiths
— Register here 
<https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-london/>

Berlin 19–21 May@ silent green — Register here 
<https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-berlin/>

Nairobi 10–12 June @ British Council — Register here 
<https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-nairobi/>


QUESTIONS

If you have any questions please email: (ai4dignity /at/ ethnologie.lmu.de) 
<mailto:(ai4dignity /at/ ethnologie.lmu.de)>


PARTICIPATION IS FREE

Lunch, snacks and drinks will be served on all three days of the workshop.

THE HOSTS
The workshop is hosted by Center for Digital Dignity, LMU Munich, 
Germany, and organized as part of the European Research Council Project, 
SMALLPLATFORMS, Facilitators: Sahana Udupa (Principal Investigator), Ira 
Solomatina, Job Mwaura, Craig Ryder and Neelabh Gupta (Postdoctoral 
Researchers), and Bastian Buitkamp (Research Associate).

WORKSHOPS AS RESEARCH

With the participants' consent, selected discussions and interactive 
sessions conducted during the workshop can contribute to the 
facilitators' ethnographic research on media, technology and society. 
The consent form will be handed out on the first day of the workshop. 
Participation is voluntary. All information will be treated confidentially.

THE PROJECT

SMALLPLATFORMS ("Beyond the Big Tech: Contentious Speech on Small 
Platforms") is a 5-year project (2025-2029) funded by the European 
Research Council Consolidator Grant. It explores small social media 
platforms in a cross-cultural context, through fieldwork in Germany, 
India, Kenya and the UK. Using a critical cultural model, the project 
explores whether and in what way forms of contentious speech are 
associated with practices on small platforms and how they differ from 
dynamics on big platforms. For more information, 
seehttps://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101122348 
<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101122348>.




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