Move Fast and Break Things: Resisting and Challenging Big Tech Dominance
Thursday 8 July 2021, 6.00pm-6.45pm
Online event
Webinar & Premiere:
Thursday 8th July 2021, 6.00pm-7.15pm
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CnnIvPpMPrU
Freight Theatre are delighted to announce the launch of a webinar, Move Fast and Break Things: resisting and challenging Big Tech dominance on Thursday 8th of July 2021. The webinar will be followed by the premiere of Freight Theatre’s new film, Move Fast and Break Things, which will be touring the UK as a stage show in 2021-22. Premiere details will be annouced shortly.
Chaired by project lead Nayana Prakash (Oxford Internet Institute) the event will bring together leading voices in the discourse surrounding Big Tech - Carole Cadwalladr, Dr Sarah T. Roberts and Martha Dark of Foxglove Legal - to discuss the harmful impacts of practices from tech firms across the world, and what we can do to lessen these impacts. From the secretive collection, storage and usage of our personal data to the mistreatment of workers in factories and content moderation offices, a select group of technology companies are bolstering their dominance through harmful practices, with little accountability. This webinar will bring together a group of experts to call out this behaviour and ask what we can do about it.
Please note that registration is required for this event.
Speakers:
Chaired by Nayana Prakash is a PhD researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). She also holds a BA in English Literature and Language from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Modern Literature and Culture from King's College, London.
Her PhD research focuses on Indian women's online storytelling, and the Internet as a site of neo-colonialism. She considers voice, agency and power in creative fiction on digital storytelling platforms.
In 2021, ‘Skeptechs’ - the podcast she co-hosts that discusses tech in current affairs - was named as one of Spotify’s ‘Next Wave’ winners, recognised as being at the forefront of next-generation podcast creators.
Carole Cadwalladr
Carole is a British Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist for The Guardian and The Observer. After working with whistleblower Christopher Wylie for a year, she released her investigation into Cambridge Analytica which was published in both The Observer and The New York Times. The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. In 2019, she featured in the ‘The Great Hack’, a Netflix documentary on the scandal. She has also uncovered multiple crimes committed during the European referendum and evidence of Russian interference in Brexit
Dr Sarah T. Roberts
Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, at UCLA. On the internet since 1993, she was previously an information technology professional for 15 years, and, as such, her research interests focus on information work and workers and on the social, economic and political impact of the widespread adoption of the internet in everyday life. She is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and a 2018 recipient of the EFF Barlow Pioneer Award for her groundbreaking research on content moderation of social media.
Martha Dark
Martha is co-founder and Director of Foxglove, a non-profit that investigates, litigates and campaigns on issues concerning technology and social justice. Foxglove is supporting social media content moderators in their fights for fair treatment from the platforms they work for, and for safe working conditions during the pandemic.
Martha was previously Chief Operating Officer of Open Rights Group and prior to that Head of Operations for the human rights charity Reprieve. She is on the board of Fair Trials International and EDRI.
