Eventos e debates online

Internet, democracy and social movements: transformations of political action in cyberspace

Data: 28 de julho de 2020 - 10hrs (Brasil), 11 hrs (EAST Time). Date: July 28thy, 2020 - 10 am (Brazil), 11 am (EAST Time).

Este evento é o primeiro de uma série de debates, co-organizados pela Escola de Governança da Internet e pelo grupo de pesquisa Resocie (Instituto de Ciência Política-UnB), que abordarão as transformações da ação política no ciberespaço e seus impactos para a democracia.

Quando movimentos sociais começaram a incorporar a Internet aos seus repertórios de ação, há três décadas, havia a expectativa de que as novas tecnologias teriam efeitos democratizantes, ao proporcionar a atores menos poderosos uma nova arena a partir da qual exercer sua voz. Trinta anos depois, há um amplo debate sobre se essa expectativa foi ou não alcançada. O evento “Internet, democracia e movimentos sociais: transformações da ação política no ciberespaço” discutirá os dilemas da conformação da ação política democrática com o uso instrumental da internet. A partir de casos de movimentos sociais em diferentes regiões do mundo – Ásia, América Latina e Europa – os painelistas irão discutir como os atores da sociedade civil têm utilizado as novas tecnologias digitais e quais são os seus impactos para a vida democrática.

This is the first of a series of webinars that are being co-organized by the Internet Governance School of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee and the research group Rethinking Relations between Society and the State, of the Political Science Institute, at the University of Brasilia.

This event brings together three renowned scholars on social movements to discuss the increased relevance of digital collective action and its impacts on democracy. When social movements began to systematically incorporate the Internet into their repertoires of action a few decades ago, there was expectations that the new technologies would have democratizing effects by providing a new arena from which less powerful actors could exercise their voice. Thirty years later, there is a broad debate about whether or not this expectations have been met. Based on their research on social movements in different regions of the world - from Asia to Latin America and Europe - the panelists will discuss how social movements have used new digital technologies and their impacts on democratic life.

Painelistas / Panelists: Paolo Gerbaudo; Marisa von Bülow; Ming-sho Ho.

Paolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist and political theorist and the director of the Centre for Digital culture at King’s College London. He is the Author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest (2017), and Digital Party: Political Organisation and online Democracy (2019).

Marisa von Bülow is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia. She is author of Building Transnational Networks (2010), Social movement dynamics: new perspectives on theory and research from Latin America (2015) and Social movements in Chile: organization, trajectories and political consequences (2017). Her recent research deals with social movements and digital activism in Brazil and Chile.

Ming-sho Ho is a professor at the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University. He is the author of Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2019) and Working-Class Formation in Taiwan: fractured solidarity in state-owned enterprises, 1945-2012 (2014).

Disinformation on Internet as political strategy

Data:11 de agosto de 2020 - 10 hs (Brasil), 11 hrs (EAST TIME). Date: August, 11th, 2020 - 10 am (Brazil), 11 am (EAST TIME).

A atividade tem como objetivo discutir a relação do fenômeno da “desinformação” com a lógica econômica da internet. Ao tratar do tema da desinformação, sob a perspectiva dos dilemas da organização da ação política, ela não é retratada, somente, como um fenômeno ocasional, ou derivado do ambiente de comunicação na internet. A própria “desinformação”, nesse sentido, é identificada como uma das distintas forças que a ação política, na atualidade, assume. Portanto, trata-se de uma iniciativa motivada por objetivos, que podem ser políticos, econômicos e, inclusive, pessoais. O debate aborda o fenômeno da “desinformação”, considerando suas implicações para a dinâmica da polarização política, sua importância na consolidação do cenário político atual e as implicações da disseminação massiva de notícias falsas e enganosas em meio a pandemia, cujos impactos para o futuro da democracia são incertos. As cadeias de valor da produção e a distribuição de “desinformação” ganharam contornos de uma indústria com lógica econômica própria que orienta e suporta o emprego dessas práticas. Esta questão adquiriu evidência no contexto de campanhas eleitorais, e, especialmente, em questões atinentes à saúde pública, como em campanhas de vacinação e atualmente no combate à pandemia de Covid-19.

The debate aims to discuss the relationship between disinformation phenomena and the economic logic of the internet. It is worth mentioning that from the perspective of the dilemmas of political action organization, the concept of disinformation could not be understood only as an occasional phenomenon, or intrinsic to the internet communication environment. In this regard, disinformation itself refers to one of the distincts forces that political action currently assumes. Therefore, it is motivated by specific goals which can be political, economic, and even personal. This event will address the phenomenon of disinformation, considering its implications for the political polarization and its role in consolidating the current political scenario, beyond the implications of the massive dissemination of false and misleading news in the pandemic context, whose impacts for the future of democracy are uncertain. The value chains of an alleged disinformation industry and its distribution have already assumed its own economic logic that guides and supports the use of these practices. This issue gained prominence in the context of electoral campaigns, and especially in matters of public health, such as vaccination campaigns and currently, combating the Covid-19 pandemic.

Painelistas / Panelists: Alicia Wanless; Aline Osorio; Patrícia Campos Mello; Rafael Evangelista; Vivian Schiller.

Alicia Wanless is the co-director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations. She researches how people shape—and are shaped—by a changing information space. Wanless conducts content and network analysis, and has developed original models for identifying and analyzing digital propaganda campaigns. With more than a decade of experience in researching and analyzing the information environment, focusing on propaganda and information warfare, Wanless applies this learning to support government, military, and major tech companies to develop policies and integrate information activities into training programs that better reflect how the information environment is manipulated. Wanless is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring alternative frameworks for understanding the information environment. Her work has been featured in the CBC, Forbes, and The Strategy Bridge.

Aline Osorio (to be confirmed) is currently the Secretary-General of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court. She is also a Public Law Professor at the University Center of Brasília (UniCEUB). Prior, Aline served as an international specialist in Hughes Hubbard’s Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice group based in the Paris office (2019/2020), as Chief of staff and law clerk at Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court during the 2018 Presidential elections (2018/2019),

Patrícia Campos Mello (to be confirmed) is a special reporter and columnist at the brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the International Press Freedom Award and the King of Spain Award. Graduated in Journalism from USP, and have a master's degree from NYU. She is the author of the book “The hate Machine: notes from a reporter on fake news and digital violence”.

Rafael Evangelista (to be confirmed) is social scientist, with a Master's in Linguistics (2005) and a PhD in Social Anthropology (2010). He is a researcher at Unicamp's Laboratory of Advanced Studies in Journalism (Labjor), and Professor in the postgraduate program in Scientific and Cultural Dissemination (Unicamp). He is coordinator of the research group Information, Communication, Technology and Society (ICTS) and a member of the Latin American Network for Studies in Surveillance, Technology and Society (Lavits). He is author of the digital book “Beyond Machines of Lovely Grace: hacker culture, cybernetics and democracy”.

Vivian Schiller is a longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology. She is Executive Director at the Aspen Institute, heading up programs across media, technology and cybersecurity. Over the last 30 years, Vivian has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organizations in the world, including The New York Times, CNN, NPR, NBC News, and Twitter.

Post-pandemic perspectives: challenges of the Global South in the global geopolitical configuration of the internet

Data: 25 de agosto de 2020 - 10hs (Brasil), 11hs (EAST Time). Date: August, 25th, 2020 - 10 am (Brazil), 11 am (EAST Time).

A atividade tem como objetivo discutir as experiências de uso da internet por organizações e grupos políticos no contexto sul-americano. A discussão destas experiências sul-americanas se justificam pelo potencial de abordar o fenômeno do uso político da internet a partir de uma perspectiva do Sul Global. A indagação a respeito dos dilemas da ação política, tratada no âmbito regional, contribui para colocar em evidência o papel da região na configuração geopolítica mundial da internet. Para tanto, foram selecionados três episódios que abordam diferentes perspectivas da ação política no ciberespaço na América do Sul: as manifestações no Chile, a organização de comunidades nas favelas brasileiras durante a pandemia, as manifestações de motoristas de aplicativos no Brasil.

The activity aims to discuss Internet use by organizations and political groups specifically in the South American context. The focus of the discussion is justified by the potential to address the political use of the internet from a perspective of the Global South. The issue about the dilemmas of political action, analyzed from a regional level, contributes to highlight the role of this region to the global geopolitical of the Internet. Therefore, three different episodes were selected to address different perspectives of political action in cyberspace in South America: the political demonstrations in Chile, the organization of communities in the Brazilian slums during the pandemic, and the uberization phenomenon and its impacts for social movements in Brazil.

Painelistas / Panelists: Emiliano Treré; Ludmilla Costhek Abílio; Renata Avila.

Emiliano Treré, is a Senior Lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation at Cardiff's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. His research addresses the issue of digital activism and algorithmic resistance from a theoretical standpoint in relation to crucial questions of culture and identity on one side, and to the development of theoretical frameworks related to media theories of change as mediation, media ecologies, and mediatization on the other. He is also author of Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms (Routledge, 2019), and winner of the Outstanding Book Award of the ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group.

Ludmilla Costhek Abílio has a doctorate in Social Sciences from UNICAMP and a PhD from FEA-USP. Graduated in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP (2001) and Master in Sociology from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP (2005). She has experience in Sociology, with emphasis on Urban Sociology and Sociology of Work. She is currently a researcher at CESIT, where she holds her second PhD, on Development, current austerity policies and the transformations of work in Brazil.

Renata Avila is a human rights lawyer specialising in Intellectual Property and Technology. She worked as one of the lawyers representing the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu and Wikileaks and other whistleblowers and publishers by providing legal advice. She serves as a Board Member of Creative Commons and is an active advisory member for different initiatives, from the Whistleblower Network in Germany, Coding Rights, to the Data Activism Project from the University of Amsterdam and the the Municipality of Barcelona’s BITS initiative, aiming at reducing surveillance and empowering citizens with privacy tools. She was executive director at Cidadania Inteligente Foundation and currently she is co-founder of "Alianza por los Algoritmos Inclusivos", Race & Tech Fellow CCSRE, Stanford University.

17h às 18h: As origens da Internet e a criação do CGI.br.

Presença Especial: Carlos Afonso (Nupef) e Hartmut Glaser (CGI.br).

Moderação: Lucas Costa dos Anjos.

Serão abordados fundamentos da governança da Internet a partir de uma perspectiva histórica, tratando a origem da Internet a partir do surgimento de diferentes atores que hoje fazem parte da sua governança, dando foco à criação e papel do Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil e seu modelo de governança.

18 às 19h: Governança da Internet: passado, presente, e desafios futuros.

Presença Especial: Flávio Wagner (UFRGS) e Demi Getschko (NIC.br) (a confirmar).

Moderação: Lucas Costa dos Anjos.

Será abordado o processo de institucionalização da governança da Internet, a formação de um ecossistema global e os impactos do regime de governança global para o desenvolvimento tecnológico, levantando as transformações da tecnologia nos últimos anos e seus reflexos na sociedade.

16h às 17h: Introdução aos conceitos técnicos e desafios jurídicos: instrução processual, remoção de conteúdo e bloqueio de aplicações.