GHI2019 Globalisation, Technology and Media

Recorded July 15, 2019. Professor Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin) examines the relationship between technology, globalisation, and democracy. Prof Edmond looks at how the underlying nature of some of the technologies driving social change today, such as AI, big data and social media platforms, is different from what has come before, and how the unique characteristics of their design and function present threats to democracy that are different not just in degree, but in kind. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/