/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/1746/all en /maxbellschool/channels/news/protecting-our-privacy-strengthening-accountability-public-surveillance-policy-magazine-357291 <p>May 8, 2024 | In Policy Magazine’s Emerging Voices series each year, Max Bell School MPPs are asked to write articles on issues important to them. In the fifth article for 2024, Asha Sivarajah underscores the importance of safeguarding privacy rights while ensuring transparency and accountability in public institutions' use of surveillance technologies.</p> Thu, 09 May 2024 16:24:39 +0000 pinaki.siwach@mcgill.ca 3180 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/machine-us-podcast-series-globe-and-mail-357258 <p>May 7, 2024 | We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction are now transpiring into our reality. <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/machines-like-us/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Machine Like Us</a> is a technology show where every other Tuesday <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Taylor Owen</a> sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future.</p> Tue, 07 May 2024 14:53:04 +0000 pinaki.siwach@mcgill.ca 3178 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/platforms-power-and-democracy-352723 <p>Join <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CBC Ideas’ host Nahlah Ayed</a> and renowned international experts <a href="https://joandonovan.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blan</body></html>"></a></p> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:42:36 +0000 keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca 3102 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/screen-time-podcast-centre-media-technology-and-democracy-338703 <p>March 25, 2022 | <em>Screen Time</em> podcast is an eight-episode podcast miniseries that explores the rapidly evolving relationship between kids and technology. Co-hosted by Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a>, who also directs the School's <a href="https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com">Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy</a>, Catch up on the first three episodes:</p> Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:56:34 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2805 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/taylor-owen-globe-and-mail-who-will-answer-christchurch-call-nobody-if-tech-platforms-continue-297411 <p>May 23, 2019 | Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, writes that the Christchurch Call might be a missed opportunity for governments to move toward global digital governance. He says " [the Christchurch Call] has no enforceable mandates, it focuses overwhelmingly on technical fixes to what are also political, social and economic problems and its framing around terrorism and hate speech is far too narrow, treating the symptom of the problem while ignoring the underlying disease."</p> Fri, 24 May 2019 14:34:49 +0000 lilia.brahimi@mail.mcgill.ca 1448 at /maxbellschool