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With every election cycle, political campaigns become more and more reliant on online platforms to target voters. Yet, regulatory measures for campaigns have not kept pace with the rapid development of digital campaigning. The public is largely in the dark about the…
President Biden recently pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana-related offenses. Oregon Governor Kate Brown also recently made news when she pardoned tens of thousands of people convicted of marijuana offenses in her state. Both are using their executive powers of clemency to try to address injustices with our…
Welcome Remarks
Melissa Lane, Princeton University
Derek Hand, Dublin City University
Speakers
Federico Fabbrini, Dublin City University, Princeton University
Martin Flaherty, Princeton University, Fordham Law School
Fintan O'Toole, Princeton University, The Irish Times
Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
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Exporting Capitalism with Ethan Kapstein: A PIIRS Director’s Book Forum.
Speakers
Ethan Kapstein, Co-Director, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project
Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies; Professor of History and International Affairs
The digital domain is fast emerging as a new site of global competition and conflict. The benefits of digitization have been immense, but so have the harms — rampant disinformation, privacy violations, cyberattacks, and the worsening of inequalities, to name a few. As harms proliferate and the technology rapidly broaches new…
From autocomplete and smart replies to video filters and deepfakes, we increasingly live in a world where communication between humans is augmented by artificial intelligence. AI often operates on behalf of a human communicator by recommending, suggesting, modifying, or generating messages to accomplish communication goals. We…
Now that the 2022 Midterm elections are (mostly) behind us, let’s have a bipartisan conversation about civil discourse: Why are we so polarized as a nation? How did we get here? Why don’t people on either side of the aisle seem to know how to disagree without being “disagreeable”? And what does all of this mean for the future…
