Gikii Vienna 2018: Programme

Gikii 2018
Media Governance & Industries Research Lab at the University of Vienna
Währinger Str. 29, 1090 Wien
September 13-14

Abstracts (Dropbox folder)

Wednesday 12th

8.30 pm. Informal social gathering at Das1090.

THURS 13^th DAY 1, start lunchtime 1pm

1-2pm Fake news (chair Katherine Sarikakis)

• What Dracula Can Teach Us About Fake News – Paul Bernal
• Of Radfems, TERFs and Russian Blogs – Judith Rauhofer
• A psychological study of Marxian authentication protocols – Wendy Grossman

2- 3.30pm  DP/ Data (chair Paul Bernal)

• SAR Trek: The Next Generation (of data rights) – Michael Veale
• Altered Carbon, Sleeved Selves: How to Legalise Personal Data Containers – Lilian Edwards and Derek MacAuley
• From Ava to Siri: Data Protection by Design and the Gendering of Virtual Personal Assistants – Dr Nóra Ni Loideain and Dr Rachel Adams
• Bill & Ted’s Data Protection Adventure – Tristan Henderson

COFFEE

4 pm – 5.30pm IP (chair Catherine Easton)

• Altered Carbon: From the law of the sleeve to the law of the stack – Alexandra Giannopoulou and João Pedro Quintais
• Save our memes! Conceptualising ‘digital folklore’ for cultural diversity in cyberspace – Rachel Maguire
• Engage! Can the contemporary intellectual property framework get us to Warp 9? – Megan Rae Blakely
• Big Brother is Watching but He Doesn’t Understand: An Analysis of the Competence of Digital Filtering Technology in Enforcing Copyright Law – Mitchell Longan

7 pm – 10 pm Conference Dinner
(Pre-registration required)
Address: “Zum Martin Sepp” Cobenzlgasse 34, 1190, Vienna

 

DAY 2 Fri 14^th

9.30- 11am Artifice And Avarice (chair Chris Marsden)

• Artifice and Intelligence – Andrea Matwyshyn
• Come to the Dark Side, We Have Patterns: Choice Architecture and Design for (Uni)informed Consent – Rossana Ducato and Enguerrand Marique
• Building a New Sith Empire Around A New System of Imperial Credits – Israel Cedillo Lazcano
• The judgedreddisation of business to consumer relations. The rise of summary justice type enforcement of abusive terms of service – Fernando Barrio

COFFEE

11.30-1.10pm  Regulation (chair Lilian Edwards)

• Ready Player Cat: Internet regulation in the OASIS – Andres Guadamuz
• Specific Sensitive Data Deregulation (SSDD): Portarlington-Valetta-Nicosia Effect(s) in Global Data Protection Law – Chris Marsden and Michael Veale
• Robots who rape: Implications for criminal law and policy – Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee
• From HAL to Bender: Deconstructing AI and gender – Catherine Easton

 

LUNCH

2.15-3.45pm  IP/Post-mortem Law (chair Andres Guadamuz)

• Fading out the Echo of Consumer Protection: An empirical study at the intersection of data protection and trade secrets – Dr Guido Noto La Diega
• I can haz your e-book: the reference in TomKabinet case and the paradox of functional equivalent approach – Liliia Oprysk
• (Post-mortem) Authorship in the Machine: Machine learning technologies imbuing new life into the jurisprudence of séances and spirit writing – Adrian Aronsson-Storrier

COFFEE

4.15pm -5.45pm Personality Contests (chair Andrea Matwyshyn)

• It’s complicated. The relationship status between digital and traditional media platforms. The case of the #MeToo social movement. – Nadine van der Laan
• The rise of Quasi-subjects in the post-human legal & technological era – Gianclaudio Malgieri
• Cat Pictures … and Legal Personhood Please: How Spontaneous Intelligence Can Problematise Differences Between Humans, Artificial Intelligence, Companies and Animals – Jiahong Chen, Paul Burgess
• Rights for malware! – Miranda Mowbray