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<span style="color:black">As part of the MFCO Seminar Series 2025, we are glad to be welcoming our very own
<a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/michael-daubs">Dr Michael Daubs</a> on Tuesday 26<sup>th</sup> August at 10am (8am AEST;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="color:#96607D"><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20250415T030000&p1=952&p2=37&p3=152&p4=137&p5=179" title="Original URL:
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<b><span style="color:black">Myths, Imaginaries and AI Regulation</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, concerns about the spread of disinformation and biases by artificial intelligence (AI), and a conflicting belief that AI can drive efficiency, productivity and innovation, have led to some international
efforts to both regulate and encourage adoption of AI. This presentation discusses these two competing visions, or what Mosco (2004) calls ‘myths’ and Jasanoff and Kim (2019) call ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’. It argues that these imaginaries fuel regulatory
approaches to AI, the consequences of which will only be evident once AI sheds the mythic sublime and becomes and enters what Mosco calls “the prosaic world of banality”. Ultimately, while the media of the future might be determined by technological innovation,
the future of the media will be influenced by these regulations and what they restrict and enable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Michael S. Daubs</b> is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago and a co-director for Kôtaha—the Internet, Social Media and Politics Research Lab at Victoria University
of Wellington. His latest research examines the spread of misinformation and extremist ideologies through online communities.<span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Overell</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Culture & Society</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5" title="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1057%2Fs41282-024-00461-5&data=05%7C02%7Covero05p%40otagouni.mail.onmicrosoft.com%7C9cf135f1c54d41dbc16008dd90dba3e4%7C0225efc578fe4928b1579ef24809e9ba%7C0%7C0%7C63882599523648"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), <i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223" title="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FPsychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed%2FOwens-OCallaghan%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9781032223223&data=05%7C02%7Covero05p%40otagouni.mail.onmicrosoft.com%7C9"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis
and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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her new album, Lorde creates pop at its purest – performative, playful and alive to paradox’</span></a>.
<i>The Conversation</i>. 30<sup>th</sup> June.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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