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Big Thinking PodcastDigital politics in the age of AIIn this episode, we’re exploring the ever-growing impact of artificial intelligence on digital politics and media. From shaping political campaigns to influencing public discourse, AI is transforming the way we engage with politics.Karine Morin is joined by Fenwick Mckelvey, Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, to break down the risks, rewards, and ethical challenges surrounding AI in the digital realm.2025-02-2732 min

4thSpace ConcordiaThe Future Of Communication With ChatGPT: Promises and PerilsLarge language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate, learn, and interact with one another. In response, it's important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. To this end, the Digital Intimacies, Gender and Sexuality Lab, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute, organized a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick Mckelvey. Hear from experts about the pedagogical, ethical, social, and political implications of this technology.2023-06-191h 06

Wonks and War RoomsThe Uses of AI in Canadian PoliticsIn this special episode Elizabeth is joined by our panel of experts — Samantha Bradshaw, Wendy Chun, Suzie Dunn, Fenwick McKelvey and Wendy H. Wong — for a roundtable discussion on how artificial intelligence is being deployed in Canadian political contexts. The topics range from mis- and disinformation, facial recognition, synthetic media, deep fakes and voice cloning to technical terms like GANs and large language models. We discuss the ways identities can be manipulated through AI, how generative AI creates content that dilutes our trust in images and media, and how AI relies on past data to make decisions about our futur...2023-04-1253 min

Wonks and War RoomsTrailer: April 3 Live event on the use of AI in Canadian politicsGet ready for a special live edition of Wonks and War Rooms! From deep fakes to detecting disinformation or harassment to voting predictions and sentiment analysis, AI-enabled technologies are playing an increasing role in democratic election processes. Join us on April 3 at 12 p.m. ET for a roundtable discussion on the use of artificial intelligence in politics. Our host Elizabeth Dubois, and a panel of experts in the fields of politics, public policy, and new technologies will help break down how artificial intelligence is being deployed in Canadian political contexts. Find out more and register for this f...2023-03-2901 min

Beyond the HeadlinesThe Story of Canada’s Telecom MonopolyFor this episode, two guests join us to talk about the telecommunication monopoly in Canada, Professor Fenwick McKelvey from Concordia University and Mr. Joe Rowsell from Telus. With the ongoing merger between Shaw and Rogers, and the recent service outage experienced by Rogers’ users, we have seen rising concerns within Canada’s monopolistic Telecommunication industry. We dive into the current landscape of the industry and explore the existing problems within the telecommunication systems. Additionally, we will discuss the government’s role in regulating the industry. Producers Vicky Li - Junior Producer Kriti Sharma - Junior...2023-03-2658 min

Law BytesEpisode 159: Fenwick McKelvey on the Rapid Spread of Government TikTok BansTikTok may be enormously popular, but according to the growing number of government, there are concerns regarding links between the app and the Chinese government. That has led to a rapid spread bans of the TikTok app on government devices not only at the federal level, but at provincial and municipal governments and even at universities for university-owned devices. But is TikTok unique in this regard? How to reconcile the government’s insistence that TikTok contribute to Cancon in Bill C-11 with it banning the app due to security risks? Are the privacy concerns more about TikTok or the government’s in...2023-03-1331 min

McGill AI PodcastSu Lin Blodgett & Fenwick McKelvey: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI EthicsWhat does it mean for an artificial intelligence model to do the right thing? What are researchers and governments doing to ensure that the use of AI technologies does not infringe on human rights? These are two of the questions that we touch on in this conversation with Dr. Su Lin Blodgett and Prof. Fenwick McKelvey. The world of AI has seen an explosion of progress in recent years and this has opened up exciting new applications for these models. However, the issue of reflecting human biases, which has long been plaguing these models, is far from solved. On...2023-01-241h 11

Harbinger ShowcaseIndependent Media and Public Scholarship w/ The Walrus, Pivot & CUTV (Harbinger Society Presents ep45)How do academia and independent Canadian media collaborate to amplify public scholarship and popular education? Join The Walrus magazine's Carmine Starnino, Pivot's Fanny Tan, CUTV's Sophia Barsoski, Harbinger's Andre Goulet and moderator Fenwick McKelvey from Concordia University's Department of Communications for an in-depth conversation exploring how scholarly research, graduate studies and independent journalism intersect in Canada's media ecosystem.Find out more at https://thewalrus.ca/https://www.cutvmontreal.org/https://pivot.quebec/This panel was recorded virtually on October 21st, 2022.2022-10-261h 25

Harbinger Society PresentsIndependent Media and Public Scholarship (w/ The Walrus, Pivot, CUTV & Harbinger)How do academia and independent Canadian media collaborate to amplify public scholarship and popular education? Join The Walrus magazine's Carmine Starnino, Pivot's Fanny Tan, CUTV's Sophia Barsoski, Harbinger's Andre Goulet and moderator Fenwick McKelvey from Concordia University's Department of Communications for an in-depth conversation exploring how scholarly research, graduate studies and independent journalism intersect in Canada's media ecosystem.Find out more at https://thewalrus.ca/https://www.cutvmontreal.org/https://pivot.quebec/This panel was recorded virtually on October 21st, 2022.2022-10-261h 25 $Tech Won\'t Save Us$ Tech Won't Save UsCompetition Won’t Fix Canada’s Telecom Woes w/ Fenwick McKelveyParis Marx is joined by Fenwick McKelvey to discuss the massive outage at Rogers, why it’s challenging the narrative that more competition will fix Canada’s telecom sector, and the need for better regulation and even public ownership.Fenwick McKelvey is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed. He’s also an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University and a director of Machine Agencies at the Milieu Institute. Follow Fenwick on Twitter at @mckelveyf.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider so...2022-08-0453 min

Law BytesEpisode 90: Fenwick McKelvey on Bill C-10, Discoverability and the Missing Representation of a New Generation of Canadian CreatorsWeeks into a high profile debate over Bill C-10, the issue of discoverability of Canadian content has emerged as a policy tug of war between supporters that want the CRTC to intervene by mandating the discoverability of Canadian content on sites such as Youtube and Tiktok and critics that argue the approach would raise significant freedom of expression and net neutrality concerns. But what exactly is “discoverability” and how would it impact both users and the thousands of Canadian creators that have already found success on digital platforms? Fenwick McKelvey is a communications professor at Concordia University who...2021-10-1929 min

Bill Kelly ShowWhy do some Canadians dislike Trudeau? Party views on border restrictions amid C-19 fourth wave & Allegations of sexual assault at Western UniversityThe Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Canada’s snap election has increasingly featured threats of violence against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. Though not the only leader to be harassed, Trudeau’s campaign stops in recent weeks have been disrupted by small, hostile, mostly white crowds — one protester was charged with throwing gravel at Trudeau during a campaign appearance. Outside of Canada, people might be surprised to hear about the anger directed at a politician known internationally as a youthful, charming, energetic progressive. But our research into Canadian memes has found a persistent, visceral dislike of Trudeau among m...2021-09-1653 min

The Conversation WeeklyWhy is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquitoes bite some of us more than othersAhead of Canadian elections on September 20, two experts in Canadian politics profile the current prime minister, Justin Trudeau. They explore why he's so much more popular abroad than at home and assess what his real foreign policy record has been beyond being a celebrity.Featuring Alex Marland, professor of political science at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Jeremy Wildeman, Research Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Ontario.In our second story (at 28m55), we hear about research providing new clues...2021-09-1641 min

Data & SocietyAlgorithmic Governance and the State of Impact Assessment in the EU, US, and CanadaAlgorithmic impact assessments have emerged as a centerpiece of the conversation about algorithmic governance. Impact assessments integrate many of the chief tools of algorithmic governance (e.g., auditing, end-to-end governance frameworks, ethics reviews) and speak to the challenges of algorithmic justice, equity, and community redress. Impact assessment (or similar accountability mechanisms) are at the core of recent headlines about procurement practices in Canada, leaked regulatory proposals in the EU, and new efforts to regulate the tech industry in the US. But do impact assessments promise too much? Multiple national and state governments have instituted, or are considering, requirements for...2021-06-231h 00

Human Rights TalksCanadian Coalition to Counter COVID19: Algorithmic Media ObservatoryThis interview is part of the Canadian Coalition to Counter COVID19 Digital Disinformation project. In this episode, we chat with Fenwick McKelvey, Scott DeJong, Elsa Donovan, and Saskia Kowalchuk from the Algorithmic Media Observatory. Much of the work of the observatory focuses on understanding the consequences of algorithms and the digitization of our society. We discuss their recent work studying memes as a way of analyzing political culture in Canada through the 2019 federal election and the COVID19 pandemic. 2021-03-1018 min

Human Rights TalksCovid-19 and Future of Internet GovernanceJoin this digital townhall to learn about COVID-19 disinformation and the future of internet governance and content moderation. Tina Purnat, World Health Organization Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa Rory Smith, First Draft News Philippe-Andre Rodriguez, Global Affairs Canada The Canadian Coalition to Counter COVID Digital Disinformation is a project organized by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies with funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage's Digital Citizens Initiative. The team is working to enhance Canadian citizens' digital literacy and resiliency as they come in contact with misinformation and disinformation relating...2021-01-201h 02

Context Beyond The HeadlinesInsurrection in the USAFilmmakers Dan Shannon and Isabelle Depelteau discuss their award-winning documentary Me The People Film to speak about the many policies of populist leaders. Also on the program controversial New York University professor, Lawrence Mead, talks about western individualism and immigration. Fenwick Mckelvey of Concordia University answers the question: Is media broken? And, Ali Noorani from National Immigration Forum with Eric Kaufman, author of White Shift, join The Cue to talk about how we work through these troubling times in politics. GUESTS Filmmakers Dan Shannon and Isabelle Depelteau, directors of Me the Pe...2021-01-2028 min

Man Behind The MachineFacebook’s Kill Switch : Censorship, A.I. & Fake newsIn this episode, for the first time in US history and the algorithm will decide Who will be president. Facebook changes its terms of service and deletes Counts associated with Russian troll farms, Yes Facebook plans to institute a kill switch to shut down news related to the 2020 election. Internet research agency and Instagram disinformation troll farms hire US journalists in peace data campaign /// Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2005. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Reprint ed. New York: Penguin Books. Irani, Lili. 2015. “Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship.” Science, Technology & Human Values 40(5): 799–824. Jordan, Tim. 2008. Hacking: Digita...2020-09-0250 min

CSDC Podcast Archives - CSDC - Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship026 – What is the Fate of Platforms?What is the FATE of platforms? Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics Under Review Panel moderator: Fenwick McKelvey... The post 026 – What is the Fate of Platforms? appeared first on CSDC - Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship.2019-02-051h 21

The CSDC Podcast026 – What is the Fate of Platforms?What is the FATE of platforms? Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics Under Review Panel moderator: Fenwick McKelvey... The post 026 – What is the Fate of Platforms? appeared first on CSDC - Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship.2019-02-0500 min

CANADALANDEp. 213 - How Facebook Bought-Off Canada For PeanutsGovernments around the world are cracking down on Facebook. But not Canada's. Forget taxes and regulations — Trudeau's Ministers are getting photo-ops and a $500,000 investment in Canada's journalism industry from Facebook. Here's Facebook's head of Canadian public policy, Kevin Chan hosting Minister of Democratic Institutions, Karina Gould, at FB's Oct 19 launch of the Canadian Election Integrity Initiative. So. Why scrutinize Facebook when you can partner with them? Leaders from dozens of countries, including Germany and Australia, aren't as smitten. Concordia communications professor Fenwick McKelvey joins Jesse. — This episode of C...2018-01-0838 min

Futureproofing CanadaPO Podcast 49 - The role of online bots in electoral politicsThe role of online bots in electoral politics, a Policy Options podcast. Online bots scan social media sites and then send out automatic messages to users. Political parties use them to get their messages out. So they have the power to shape public opinion, and they can even have an impact on elections. Fenwick McKelvey from Concordia University and Elizabeth Dubois from University of Ottawa recently wrote about bots for Policy Options. They found that the risks of this kind of digital campaign could soon outweigh the benefits. McKelvey sat down with journalist and McGill University law student Ryan Hicks...2017-12-1324 min

Thinking Out LoudEpisode 4: Disruption IoT (Internet of Things)Some of the work impacting our cities goes beyond the usual topics about urban life -– Edward Greenspon (Public Policy Forum) talks to Fenwick McKelvey about the Internet of things – the machines, bots, artificial intelligence, algorithms and what McKelvey calls demons - all shaping our daily life.)2017-09-2700 min