13/12/2021
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Digital Society Talks 2021 > Welcome to the AI World
Digital Society Talks is a forum of open dialogue uniting scientists, technology experts, business leaders and policy makers around the issues shaping the digital society in which we live in.
DST 2021 will cover the following topics:
• DigiLab Research Inqueries 2021
• The impact of AI to the future of societies
• Ethical AI: insights and challenges
• Digital technologies in arts and culture
• World before and after influencers
Date and time: 17.12.21 at 09:00
Venue: Dorcol Platz, 59b Dobracina, Belgrade.
Language: English and Serbian
Organized by Digital Society Lab of IFDT
Powered by United Group
Format: hybrid event limited to 50 persons at the venue and online. Rregistration upfront is obligatory.
Students are welcome!
AGENDA
8:30 Registration
9:00 OPENING WORDS
Gazela Pudar Drasko, Director, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
9:05
PRESENTATION OF DIGILAB RESEARCH INQUIRIES IN 2021
Members of the DigiLab and their co-authors will give short presentations of papers they have been working on in 2021:
ABSTRACT
• Lana Tucakovic, DigiLab IFDT: The power of media: LIWC analysis of leading news portals' impact and communication accomodation theory on Twitter
• Marija Mitrovic Dankulov, Institute of Physics Belgrade: How weather changes are connected to mood and expressiveness on Twitter: a comparative study of 10 countries
• Nemanja Nikolic, DigiLab IFDT: State vs. Anti-vaxxers: Analysis of Covid-19 Echo Chambers in Serbia
• Vera Mevorah, DigiLab IFDT: Digital (meme) culture of ex-Yugoslav region
• Damir Zejnulahović, IFDT: Technofeudalism illustrated by Trump’s Twitter suspension and Australia vs. Google and Facebook dispute
09:30 Coffee break
09:45
FIRESIDE CHAT
The impact of AI to the future of societies
PARTICIPANTS
Aleksandra Drecun, Intersection
Milan Gospic, General Manager Microsoft Serbia
Ljubisa Bojic, Coordinator at the DigiLab, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Directing the world's attention could be the best way to describe the impact of AI to citizens at this moment. We live in a world in which algorithms recommend content individually to everyone, create echo chambers and polarize our societies. Do they make democracy suffer? What does it mean living in a society dominated by tech companies? Can we resist them by making social media a public resource? Or should we do that? Do you support the current shift towards a collective-centric world? Is it going to be a dystopian future as we know from conspiracy theories? Are Cameras all-around, social scoring, obligatory vaccination going to pressure individuals for the sake of the collective and, why do you think that might be good for humanity? Or rather, will it be good? Will AI be independent from its creators, and what would such a situation mean for global societies?
10:15 Fruit break
10:30
PANEL DISCUSSION
Ethical AI: insights and challenges, what needs to be done in public and private sector in order to ensure responsible AI
MODERATOR
Aleksandar Linc Djodjevic, Institute for Contemporary Sciences
PANELISTS
Vladimir Cvetković, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Milos Jovanovic, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
Maja Zaric, Ministry of Culture and Information
Christof Royer, Central European University
With the rapid development of AI Technology, we can hear more often terms such as Bias in decision making, AI Fairness, Ethical Design, and similar coins that basically represent one big topic that intertwines between different sciences which we call - Ethical AI. In one sentence Ethical AI comprises a set of values, principles, and techniques which employ widely accepted standards of right and wrong to guide moral conduct in the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence technologies. Answer to many hypothetical questions, but also the questions that have been raised on practical examples have a need to involve Business Leaders, Human Rights experts, Socio-economical experts, as well as AI Experts.
In this panel discussion, we are going to raise a lot of questions - with a lot of practical examples, and hopefully, we will provide directions on what we should do and where we would like to be in near future - so we may ensure that AI is used responsibly and in accordance to ethical standards, both in private, public and research sector.
11:10 Coffee break
11:25
PANEL DISCUSSION
Digital technologies in arts and culture
MODERATOR
Jelena Guga, Coordinator at the DigiLab, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
PANELISTS
Dimitrije Tadić, Ministry of Culture and Information, Creative Europe Desk Serbia
Vitomir Jevremović, co-founder & CEO, VR-All-Art
Bojana Matejić, New Media Department, Faculty of Fine Arts
Tony Maslić, PhD candidate at the City University Hong Kong
ABSTRACT
Art and culture have been affected and transformed by digital technologies along with all the other aspects of modern life. This transformation has brought both opportunities and challenges for arts and culture. Through the process of digitalization, art and cultural institutions are making access to their collections and archives available to audiences worldwide. How do digital technologies enhance capacity building, accessibility, and audience engagement? What are the recommendations, regulations, and successful models of art and cultural heritage digitalization? Apart from discussing the digital transformation of traditional institutions, we will look into new models of production, presentation, and dissemination of art enabled by digital technologies – from the new media art and its various genres defined by the technological medium, through the expansion of gallery and museum practices into virtual spaces, to the creation of alternative, critical or even subversive spaces of thinking, dwelling, and engaging with arts and culture.
12:05 Tea break
12:20
PANEL DISCUSSION
World before and after influencers: social and economic impact
MODERATOR
Nevena Kurtovic, Fusion Communications
PANELISTS
Vladimir Arandjelovic, Digital Director, Direct Media United Solutions
Sanja Lalevic, Facebook Lead and Faculty for Media and Communications
Lazar Dzamic, digital strategist (ex.Google) and University Lecturer FMK
Mara Einstein, Professor, Queens College
ABSTRACT
Brands are increasingly devoting their marketing budgets to influencer marketing, with the industry valued at $8 billion in 2019 and expected to grow up to $15 billion by 2022. Social media are the media and the voice of influencers. To date most influencer research has focused on Instagram, however, there are a varied and growing number of platforms that warrant examination, including TikTok. But, there is value in looking back at what could be considered the use of more traditional platforms - blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
How do influencers affect society? How is the influencer different from a Brand ambassador? Why are influencers so effective with Gen Z and Millennials? How are influencers affecting the Tech industry? What is the role of Social media Influencers in the lives of children and adolescents? How do influencers affect our buying decisions? How is Social media being impacted by Influencers? Are Influencers becoming global leaders? How influencers became the Modern Entroponour? Is the influence era coming to an end soon? Will the influencer lifestyle survive the COVID-19 pandemic?
13:00 Coctail
