Message From The Director
Societies, harnessed with the power of new information and communication technologies, have crossed over into an electronic/digital frontier. It has become commonplace to talk about ‘big data’ as the defining feature of current and future global, digitally-networked societies. Today, not only are questions of public governance and accountability fundamentally connected to the governance of information, but more and more, societies are being managed and governed electronically and digitally by way of informational databases and processes. Every discipline and sector is affected by the increasing volume, velocity, variety and complexity of digital information, and currently, a preponderant amount of research is devoted to analyzing, mining, managing, and monetizing these exponentially growing networks of information. What remains underdeveloped and underfunded, we would argue, is research committed to critically questioning, challenging, and re-imagining the nature and scope of electronic/digital governance and its paradigm of ‘big data’. We welcome all on- and off-campus researchers interested in exploring these issues with us and encourage you to participate in The EGG's activities.
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Upcoming Events: Please join us!
Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), “Online Influencers, Elections, and Misinformation”.
Friday, March 7 at 2-3:30pm in SSC 6210
Dr. Yuya Shibuya (University of Tokyo), "How do people evaluate the accuracy of video posts when a warning indicates they were generated by AI?" and Dr. Gento Kato (Meiji University), "How Voters Form Factual Beliefs About Female Political Leaders and What We Can Learn from Them: Insights from Japan."
Wednesday, March 12 from 3-5pm in SSC 7200
Dr. Bill Turkell (Western University), “Generative Artificial Intelligence and Historiography”.
Thursday, March 27 from noon-2pm in Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Room 3000
Dr. Nandita Biswas Mellamphy has published a new article in the international peer-reviewed journal Digital War discussing the expansion of global full-spectrum warfare. In ‘Fuller Spectrum Operations: The Emergence of Larval Warfare’, she argues that we are witnessing the emergence of a distinct construct of digital warfare that exploits non-military weapons and conceptually depends on blurring the strict boundaries between military and civilian domains. Read the full article here.
