International workshop: AI and Political Conflict

Description

Event:
The Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures invites to a two-day hybrid event, bringing together prominent scholars to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms and their underlying technological, normative, and economic principles, on political discourse, deep disagreement, and conflict.

Presentation:
“Recognition struggles in the (in)visibilization society”
This talk draws on Axel Honneth’s (1995, 2014) influential recognition-theoretical framework to argue that mediated recognition struggles have undergone a process termed ‘from accessibility to notability’ in times of deep mediatization. This is exemplified with the use of ethnographic material from a case study with a young Danish football freestyler, who uses TikTok to counter negative stereotypes about (Muslim) women. The talk seeks to demonstrate that while easier access to public sphere(s) have in some ways strengthened the potential for more voices and transformational recognition struggles, remaining issues of accessibility have been further complicated by the manipulative and opaque circumstances of platforms that subjects these struggles to an imperative of struggling for commercialized notability.

Period	30 May 2024 → 31 May 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	Bergen, NorwayShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International