Thurs, Aug 18 @ 7PM EST / 4 PM PST / 9 AM AET (Fri)
[ Work-in-Progress ] Janet Roitman
Draft of Finance & Society Network Keynote "Platform Economies: Beyond the Global North/Global South Divide" (Now published)
Thurs, Sept 8 @ 7PM EST / 4 PM PST / 9 AM AET (Fri)
[ Work-in-Progress ] Leonard Hoon (Deputy Head, Translational Research and Commercialisation
Applied Artificial Intel Institute, Deakin University)
Topic: health tech, research commercialization, AI, business models
Thurs, Oct 13 @ 4 PM EST, 1 PM PST / 7 AM AET (Fri)
[ Work-in-Progress ] Johan Lindquist (Stockholm Univ) & Esther Weltevrede (Digital Methods Initiative, Univ Amsterdam)
"The Fake Follower Industry: On the Supply-Side of the Market for Social Media Engagements"
Topic: infrastructure rentals, ready-made websites with integrated APIs and payment systems, social media marketing services (Instagram, Tik Tok, Youtube)
Thurs, Nov 10 @ 4 PM EST, 1 PM PST / 8 AM AET (Fri)
[ PERN Salon ] Kristian Bondo Hansen & Christian Borch (Copenhagen Business School) on "Alternative Data"
Topic: “Alternative data and sentiment analysis: Prospecting non-standard data in machine learning-driven finance,” Big Data & Society, 2022.
Thurs, Feb 9, at 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST / 10 AM AEDT (Friday)
WIP/Welcome - Franziska Cooiman, Weizenbaum Institute, Germany; Roskilde University
Cooiman, F. (2022). Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221136559
Thurs, Mar 23, at 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST / 9 AM AEDT (Friday)
WIP - Angela Xiao Wu, NYU/MCC
“China's Ad-Support Media System in the "Platform" era”
Thurs, Apr 6, at 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST / 9 AM AEDT (Friday)
Salon - Xiaochang Li, Stanford, Dept of Communication, Program in STS
“There’s No Data Like More Data”: Automatic Speech Recognition and Algorithmic Culture” - Forthcoming in Osiris (Salon page)
View the Livestream recording here.
Thurs, May 4, at 8 PM EST / 5 PM PST / 8 AM China ST, 10 AM AEDT (Friday)
WIP/Fall planning - Jing Wang, NYU Shanghai“Working between Fin(ance) and Tech” from book manuscript The Human Side of Fintech: Financial Technology and Economic Citizenship in China