TIP Panels at the PSA Annual Conference – “What Next?” – Birmingham

This year we are once again making an appearance at the PSA Annual Conference with 5 panels!

More information is available here: https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-annual-conference

AI in Public Services & Government

• AI solutionism: opportunities and pitfalls for health policy. Dr. Inga Ulnicane, Dr. Marija Antanaviciute, Prof. Jessica Pykett
• Uncovering AI in government and policy decisions. Dr. Anuradha Sajjanhar
• Editor, Commissioner or Colleague: how generative AI mediated communication is reshaping the public encounter. Dr. Stephen Jeffares, Mr. Luke Bradbury
• Encryption in the Online Safety Regime: Unpacking the Techno-Legislative Object of “Accredited Technology”. Ms. Cynthia Ng
  

AI policy & Governance across Countries

• Shall We Tango in the Digital Sky?: Sino-Saudi Cloud Computing Cooperation and Entrepreneurial Developmental State. Dr. Steven Hai
• AI, Politics, and Governance: Comparative Insights from Germany, Turkey, and the UK. Dr. Sebnem Yardimci Geyikci
  

Disinformation & Memes

• The Participatory Memesphere: Third Place Dynamics in Meme Communities. Ms. Mimi Mihailescu
• Digital Immunization: Gamifying Detection of AI-Generated Visual Misinformation. Dr. Ganit Richter
• Does the Electoral Clock go TikTok? The use of short form video platforms by political parties in the 2024 UK General Election. Dr. Liam McLoughlin, Dr. Rosalynd Southern, Ms. Niamh Cashell
• Visualguard of democracy: Multimodal framework for detecting AI-generated visual disinformation in political campaigns. Dr. Kun He, Dr. Jiapan Guo
• “If This Is True, Then All Hell Is About to Break Loose”: Information Disorder and the UK 2024 Riots. Ms. Anna Gaudet

NLP Methods in Researching Technology & Society

• Caught Between Predicting Sexism in Online Political Discourse: An Analysis of the Forms of Sexism Which Exist Online and How Well Language Models Predict Them. Ms. Aditi Dutta
• Exploring China’s Cyber Sovereignty Concept and Artificial Intelligence Governance Model: A Machine Learning Approach. Mr. Ho Ting Hung
• Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of COVID-19 News Coverage in India: Integrating Facebook Reactions and Textual Content. Mr. Sawood Anwar
  

Platform Regulation & Cyber Governance in the Global South

• Cyber Governance, Policy Challenges and Opportunities Post-conflict in Somalia. Ms. Ramsha Ashraf
• Authoritarianism within Democracies: A Framework for the Dynamics among Political Actors in the Digital Age. Ms. Sahngmin Shin
• Tactics of disconnection: How netizens navigate China’s censorship system. Dr. Kun He.

Philosophy of AI: making sense of its (potential) impacts

• Mapping Actors in Digital Public Policy. Ms. Grace Piddington
• Pivoting Around Capital in Silicon Valley: Alternative Approaches to Tech Policy. Mrs. Michelle Venetucci
• Victor or Victim? Rethinking the Metaverse’s Political Economy. Ms. Katayoon Salehi
• From Pulpit to Algorithm: The Ethical Intersection of AI and Catholic Values. Ms. Manoela Mayrink
• What is Digital Politics? Defining a Poly-Field of Study: A Systematic Literature Review. Dr. Alejandro fdz-del-Río, Dr. Marco Guglielmo.