[Air-L] HICSS 57 Workshop on Systemic Abuse of Power featuring Safiya Umoja Noble, Sarah T. Roberts, and Jon Vaughn

[Ocepek, Melissa G]

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider registering for our workshop, Envisioning and Realizing the Democratizing Power of System Sciences to Combat Systemic Abuses of Power at the upcoming HICSS 57<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/> on January 3rd in Honolulu, HI. The workshop will feature notable scholars, Safiya Umoja Noble (Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism) and Sarah T. Roberts (Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media), along with abuse survivor, activist, and former NFL Player Jon Vaughn. Please see the full workshop description below and let us know if you have any questions or would like more information.

(W) Envisioning and Realizing the Democratizing Power of System Sciences to Combat Systemic Abuses of Power<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/swt/#w-envisioning-and-realizing-the-democratizing-power-of-system-sciences-to-combat-systemic-abuses-of-power>

The goal of the workshop is to interactively engage diverse participants to develop a preliminary strategy to apply system sciences to collaboratively addressing the problem of systemic abuses of power in academia and beyond, as well as to outline a corresponding scientific research agenda; the workshop aspires to catalyze a foundation that unleashes a global cavalry of academics and activists alike to address this pressing societal challenge. The workshop will feature Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble (Author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism), Dr. Sarah Roberts (Author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media), and Mr. Jon Vaughn (Former NFL Player, Tech Entrepreneur, Abuse Survivor, and Activist), all sharing their respective work on studying abuse in socio-technical systems as well as their experiences as academics fighting for their work. This workshop is for anyone interested in abuse in systems or wanting to make a change in the systems, including the organizations, they are a part of.
Examples of topics to discuss include:

  *   Big abuses in academia
  *   Stories of survivors’ experiences
  *   Links to other issues affecting organizational culture in academia and beyond
  *   Relationship to other types of abuses of power and to the constellation of other issues
such as DEI, sustainability, and public health
  *   The decline of innovation and its interconnections with systemic abuses of power
  *   Connections to broader abuses and branches of trust at other public and private institutions in society
  *   Preview of potential complementary technological and system sciences approaches
  *   Next steps for collective action
SWT Leaders:

Joshua C. Rubin (Primary Contact)
University of Michigan Medical School
Josh at JoshCRubin.com

Melissa Ocepek
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
mgocepek at illinois.edu



Best,

Josh Rubin, University of Michigan Medical School
Melissa Ocepek, University of Illinois