A workshop organized by Thomas Poell
What is often forgotten in debates about creativity and generative AI are the wider social and cultural conditions these debates take place in.
Through lightning talks, plenary discussions, and a fishbowl, participants discuss how issues pertaining to GenAI and job displacement, labour inequities, and the reorganization of creative processes play out in different parts of the world. A central question is how we can multiply our frames of reference in thinking through key concepts, such as creativity and its relations to equity and precarity, in this field of study.
Addressing this question, participants will pay special attention to the ethical dilemmas in global collaborative research projects.
Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. He is program director MA Media Studies, co-founder of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures, and faculty lead for the national Human(e) AI & the Datafied Society sector plan. Leveraging social media data and digital methods, Poell has studied how the use of digital platforms is affecting the mobilization, organization, and communication of protest around the globe. In recent years, he has built a conceptual framework to analyze how platforms and AI are reshaping the cultural industries.
| 9:30 | Welcome |
| 10:00 | Lightning Talks - Methods, Ethics & Perspectives |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Plenary Discussion - GenAI and the Transformation of Cultural Production |
| 15:00 | Fishbowl - Rethinking Creativity |
| 16:30 | Drinks |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
This is an invitation-only event.