Event overview
Prof Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam) Platforms, AI and Cultural Production: An ecosystem perspective on power and systemic risks in the contemporary public sphere.
How does the increasingly central role of digital platforms and AI in cultural production affect power relations in the contemporary public sphere? Building on the analytical framework he developed in Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity 2021) with David Nieborg and Brooke Erin Duffy, Thomas Poell will, first, discuss how the markets, infrastructures, and governance of cultural production are changing in processes of platformization. He will show that these processes leads to a concentration of power and control in both platform and legacy media companies.
Subsequently, he will discuss how the development of generative AI intensifies this concentration of power, increasing dependence on the computational infrastructures of leading platform companies. In the final part of the talk, Poell will argue that platforms and AI pose systemic risks to democratic information ecosystems and will reflect on how these risks can be addressed through public policy and regulation.
Dates & times
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| 18 Apr 2024 | 5:00pm - 6:15pm |
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