Digital futures and inequalities

Join the UCL Knowledge Lab and ReMAP for a day of talks and discussions on critical perspectives to AI and EdTech. Issues addressed include the status of knowledge and information in the context of AI and ‘the digital’, decolonising technologies, and environmental and societal impacts of technology, such as the extraction of natural resources, neocolonialism, labour inequalities, and platform power.

Organised in collaboration with the Critical Studies in Education Technology 2025 Global Seminar call. The event will be chaired by John Potter and Kata Kyrölä.

This event will be particularly useful for those interested in AI, digital culture, technology, and critical, decolonial and environmental perspectives.

Programme

• 10:30-11:00: Coffee/tea for in-person participants
• 11.00 – 13.00:
  • David Buckingham (IOE) - The End of Information: Media and Education in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age;
  • Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute) - The supply chain capitalism of AI: A call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens
• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch provided for in-person attendees
• 14.00 – 15.30:
  • Caroline Pelletier (IOE) - How does financing shape tech design in education?;
  • Kambale Musavuli (Human rights activist and technologist) - The Hidden Cost of Tech and AI: Human and Environmental Impact in the Democratic Republic of Congo;
  • Haira Gandolfi and Haley Perkins (University of Cambridge) - Extractivism, (neo)colonialism and technoscience in the Global South: Environmental injustices and education
• 15:30 – 16:00 Discussion

Related links

• UCL Knowledge Lab
• Research in Media, Arts and Play (ReMAP)
• Department of Culture, Communication and Media

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