ɫƵ’s Center for Global Humanities to host lecture titled “Technology, Self & Society in an Era of Digital Rankings” on September 28
How can we maintain our individuality in a technological era that encourages us to obsess over “points,” “likes,” and “faves”? How can we live private lives when Facebook, Google, and other internet behemoths are tracking our every online move?
A lecture titled “Technology, Self & Society in an Era of Digital Rankings” at the University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities will shed light on these and other questions, helping attendees recognize the ways in which their thinking and behavior are shaped by the technologies they use every day.
Eminent scholar Frank Pasquale will deliver the lecture on Monday, September 28 at 6 p.m. in the WCHP Lecture Hall at Parker Pavilion on ɫƵ’s Portland Campus. The event includes a public reception at the ɫƵ Art Gallery at 5 p.m.
Pasquale is a professor of law at the University of Maryland as well as a member of the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society and an affiliate fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. He frequently lectures on the ethical, legal and social implications of information technology for attorneys, physicians and other health professionals. His book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015) develops a social theory of reputation, search and finance.