Junck Colloquium with Joseph Turow

Please join us for a Mary Junck Research Colloquium talk about privacy and artificial intelligence with Joseph Turow, Ph.D., Friday, Feb. 14.

We will serve lunch at noon, with the talk to follow at 12:30 p.m. We request that attendees register below to help with food planning.

SPEAKER

Joseph Turow, Ph.D.

Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. His work lies at the intersection of marketing, digital media and society. His writings explore the power dynamics that shape cultural materials (e.g. ads, supermarket aisles, voice assistants) through which people learn about the world.

Turow is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and was presented with a Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Communication Association. A 2005 New York Times Magazine article referred to Turow as “probably the reigning academic expert on media fragmentation.” In 2010, The New York Times called him “the ranking wise man on some thorny new-media and marketing topics.” In 2012, the TRUSTe internet privacy-management organization designated him a “privacy pioneer” for his research and writing on marketing and digital privacy.

Keynote

The ‘You’ from Nowhere: Reframing Privacy in the AI Age

The talk is based on Turow’s in-progress book, which argues the importance of seeing issues of social division as intrinsic to data-privacy concerns. Using a constructivist approach to audiences, it tracks the growth of a “you from nowhere” dynamic across the history marketing technologies from peddlers and mailing lists through predictive and generative AI.