Join the Internet Governance Lab, the American University Sociology Department, and the District of Columbia Sociological Society for a book talk with author Jessica Emami starting at 5:30 on February 7th where she will discuss her book Social Media Victimization: Theories and Impacts of Cybersecurity.
Join us for the Book Launch and Reception of Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathryn Kleiman. The event will be hosted by the Internet Governance Lab alongside the AU Inclusive Technology Policy Initiative and the Botnettes on Monday, October 3rd from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Abramson Family Founders Room of the SIS Building, Terrace Level.
Kathryn Kleiman is the author of Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer (Grand Central Publishing, July 2022, and Hurst Publishers, August 2022), a Senior Policy Fellow of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, a Senior Fellow of Tech, Law & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law, and a Faculty Fellow of the Internet Governance Lab.
Join us for a special guest lecture “Cyber Statebuilding as Twenty-First Century State Formation” by Professor Mark Raymond of the University of Oklahoma. The event will take place Thursday, September 22nd at 2:30 pm in SIS Building Room 300.
Prof. Raymond is the Wick Cary Associate Professor of International Security in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests include International Relations theory, international law and organization, and international security. His current book project examines the role of procedural rules in shaping the politics of global rule-making.
The Internet Governance Lab will host its first Distinguished Guest Lecture of 2022 with Dr. Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aarhus, on Monday (April 4) at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Dr. Kleinwächter will provide a historical understanding of Internet Governance, describing and discussing “Six Waves of Internet Development” and the differences between the Internet in the 1970s/1990s and the Internet we have today. He will also examine future paths for Internet Governance, highlighting potential scenarios of confrontation or cooperation.
The conversation will occur in a hybrid format. Those available to join us in person will convene at the American University School of International Service in room SIS 300. Those available to participate remotely should email us at <internetgovlab@american.edu>. Please use the header “Distinguished Guest Lecture” and we will send you the Zoom link and password.
Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Commissioner in the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace (GCSC) and former ICANN Board member. He is involved in Internet Governance issues since the early 1990s. He was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a member of the UN WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (2003-2005), served as Adviser to the chair of the Internet Governance Forum (2005-2010), Nitin Desai, and as Special Ambassador of the Net Mundial Initiative (NMI). He is the founder of the Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) and the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EURODIG). He published more than ten book as “Internet Fragmentation: An Overview” (World Economic Forum Davos, 2017 with Vint Cerf and William Drake) and “Towards a Global Framework for Cyberpeace and Digital Cooperation: An Agenda for the 2020” with a preface from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Berlin 2019). His blog is under Circle ID (http://www.circleid.com/members/5851/). In 2012, he got the “Internet Award” from the German Internet Economy Association (eco).
Join the Internet Governance Lab Co-Directr and CIGI Senior Fellow Dr. Laura DeNardis and CIGI Managing Director Aaron Shull, for an interactive discussion on the digital iron curtain that has descended on Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine.
Join us for a discussion on public-private partnerships in cybersecurity and the roles of governments, the private sector, and industry.
Join us on Friday (January 28) at 3pm ET as our Co-Director Dr. Laura DeNardis presents cutting-edge research about Quantum Internet Protocols at the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) Societal Impacts Winter Lecture. She will be joined by discussant Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, and moderator Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law at the University of Arizona.
Register now for the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology (CSINT) Conversations panel discussing Apple’s proposed child sexual abuse material (CSAM) detection technology and the role of tech companies and government in addressing CSAM content online. Moderated by Internet Governance Lab Fellow Divya Ramjee.
Join the Internet Governance Lab as we host an online talk with International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Professor Varadharajan Sridhar about ‘Data Localization Regulations and their Impact on Digital Trade’.
TPRC and The Internet Governance Lab at American University present the 2021 Graduate Research Symposium on February 18, 2021 from 1 pm to 5h30 pm EST.
Join the Internet Governance Lab for a Virtual Roundtable featuring American University School of International Service Professor and Lab Faculty Fellow Dr. Eric Novotny discussing Iranian Internet Control Points.
Call for Papers for the TPRC and The Internet Governance Lab at American University 2021 Graduate Research Symposium.
Internet Governance Lab Global Fellow (and SOC PhD Grad), Dr. Erica Basu will join a panel of experts discussing “Virtual Meeting Platforms: Government Control and Corporate Compliance” on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 8pm EST.
Join the Internet Governance Lab, SIS, and SOC, along with Voices of Internet Freedom and the Washington, DC Chapter of the Internet Society on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 2:30pm EST for part one of a two-part virtual series on the future of Internet Freedom.
Join the Internet Governance as we host an online book talk with London School of Economics Professor Robin Mansell to discuss her new book “Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics” (Edward Elgar 2020).
Internet Governance Lab Faculty Co-Director Dr. Derrick Cogburn will join a panel of experts in fields at the intersection of international relations, development, and the environment, this Thursday, November 19, 2020 from 11am - 12pm EST. Presented by the The Balsillie School of International Affairs, the panel will ask, “are the Sustainable Development Goals the transformative medium for global partnerships we hoped for?”
On Thursday, October 22nd, The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy will host a virtual event titled “Preparing for a Research Future during Covid-19. This Panel will discuss what advice and support students and Postdocs can expect from their advisers on career advancement and research opportunities in communications, information and internet policy fields.
This Thursday, 1 October 2020 from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn, Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab, and Professor of Information Technology & Analytics and International Communication and Development at American University, will host a virtual On The Table discussion on community data science and the use of open data and open source software to facilitate community decision making and data analytics.
Join the Internet Governance Lab's Faculty Directors Derrick Cogburn, Laura DeNardis, Nanette Levinson, and Global Fellow Francesca Musiani on Tuesday, September 22nd at 12pm EST for the launch of their new book, Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures.
A former CIA analyst unveils the true history of fake news and gives readers tips on how to avoid falling victim to it in this highly designed informative.
Join the Internet Governance Lab, the School of Communication, and the Internet Society for a discussion of data and microtargeting in political advertising with SOC Professor Dr. Aram Sinnreich, Dr. Emma Briant of Bard College, and Dr. Dave Karpf, associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University.
On June 17, 2020, Internet Governance Lab Faculty Co-Director Dr. Derrick Cogburn will host a talk on entity extraction and topic modeling techniques drawing on his work examining large data sets from the Internet Governance Forum.
In support of the International Telecommunication Union’s 2020 International Girls in ICT Day (#GirlsInICT), the Internet Governance Lab will host “Girls in Coding: Big Data Analytics and Text Mining in R and RStudio” via Zoom web conference on Thursday, April 23, 2020, from 2:00 - 3:30 pm.
Technology Law & Policy Colloquium with Professor Julie Cohen (closed event).
Rutgers ethnographer Dr. Jeffrey Lane discusses his new book The Digital Street, which addresses the role of communication and technology in the transformation of an urban neighborhood. Based on five years of ethnographic observations, Lane illustrates the online and offline experiences of black teenagers in the shadow of the Harlem Children’s Zone and sweeping gentrification when social media came to permeate all facets of life. The book shows how street life in Harlem (New York, NY) plays out on and across the physical and digital streets among youth, neighborhood adults, and the authorities. This talk will explore the book's findings and research method of digital urban ethnography.
SOC Professor and Internet Governance Lab Faculty Fellow Dr. Aram Sinnreich discusses his latest article titled, “The Carrier Wave Principle” (International Journal of Communication, forthcoming).
Harvard Book Store
Join AUWCL, PIJIP, the Internet Governance Lab, and the WCL Intellectual Property Brief for “A Conversation on the Controversial Sale of the .ORG Registry.” Tuesday, February 11, 2020 from 12 - 2pm at American University’s Washington College of Law, Room NT01.
In conversation with John Batelle.
In conversation with UNC Professor Alice Marwick.
