The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Seminar series is student-led and organised by the doctoral scholars on the programme.

The speakers will be:

Dr Colette Casey

Colette completed her PhD as a Doctoral Scholar in the Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) Doctoral Training Programme (the predecessor to the LINAS DTP).  Her doctoral research was based on an ethnography of journalism in Northern Ireland, focusing on the performative dynamics of false information.  The interdisciplinary project combined critical discourse analysis with computational methods, using natural language processing techniques to analyse newspaper articles and broadcast transcripts.  Her research draws on media anthropology to examine questions of truth, performativity and accountability in contemporary news and media practices

Title: 'Machine Learning Meets Ethnography: Rethinking Transparency in News Discourse' 

Drawing on ethnographic research with journalists in Northern Ireland alongside analysis of a corpus of local news using transformer-based language models, this talk examines how algorithmic classification systems evaluate performative dynamics in news discourse.  

Emily Hickman (School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics) 2nd Year LINAS Doctoral Scholar

Title: 'Human-Machine Relationships: Reconfiguring Responsibility and Accountability'

Joe Wakley (School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics) 2nd Year LINAS Doctoral Scholar

Title: 'AI and Humans: Reckoning and Judgement'

We would love it is as many of as possible could join us for this seminar.  Refreshments will also be provided!