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Articles Exploring Promises, Risks and Human Value Complexity in AI
On May 27, 2025, the 37th meeting of the B’AI Book
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“A Survey of Instagram Usage and the Impact of Algorithms Among Women in Their Early 20s”
On January 28, 2025, the 35th session of the ̶
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Moritz Altenried (2022) The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation
On December 17, 2024, the 34th session of the R
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The seminar series Cross-Cultural Approaches to De
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“How South Korean Journalists Began Speaking About Trauma”
On 25 January 2025, the study group on Trauma Repo
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“Why Trustworthy, Ethical, and Inclusive AI Matters”
On the evening of 21st November 2024, we were deli
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The interactive workshop “Ethics Challenge!” by St
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In the 2024 academic year, the Trauma Reporting St
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On Monday, November 18, 2024, the symposium “AI an
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“Human-Robot Interaction from the Perspective of ‘Friendship’”
On March 10, 2025, the 5th meeting for FY2024 of B
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“Trauma Reporting: Exploring Sensitive Working Practices for Journalists when Interviewing Victims and Survivors”
On 11 February 2025, the study group on Tra
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Axelsson, Bodil, et al. (2022) Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online: Vikings in the Digital Age
The 31st session of the B’AI Book Club took place
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“Development of Biomimetic Robots and Constitutive Understanding of Humans: Approaching Human Through Robotics”
On August 6, 2024, the 2nd meeting for FY2024 of B
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“Advancing Mental Health Monitoring: A Deep Learning Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition”
The 4th BAIRAL research meeting for 2024 was held
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“Global AI Dialogues: Exploring public perceptions on genAI across Japan, Nigeria, and Germany”
The 3rd BAIRAL research meeting for 2024 was held
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“Challenges Facing Racial and Cultural Minorities in Japan and Creating Opportunities for Intercultural Dialogue”
The 1st BAIRAL research meeting for 2024 was held
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Discussion on “Selfhood in the era of AI”
On November 26, 2024, the 33rd meeting of the B
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“Location-Sharing and Privacy Attitudes Among Youth: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.K.”
On October 22, 2024, the 32nd session of the “B’AI
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“How Is the Media Landscape Changing? — AI and the Freelance Act”
On Saturday, November 16, 2024, the third MeDi-B’A
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Wayne Holmes and Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta eds. (2023) The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Practices, Challenges, and Debates
On May 28, 2024, the 29th meeting of the B’A
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On June 3, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum, in collabo
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On May 13, 2024, the “B’AI Global Forum × Cu
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Articles Exploring Creativity and AI though Artistic Use Cases of AI and Legal Discussion of Creative AI
On March 23, 2024, the 28th meeting of the B’AI Bo
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Susan L. Mizruchi eds. (2020) Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age. Switzerland: Springer Cham.
The 22nd session of the B’AI Book Club took
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“asEars: Designing and Evaluating the User Experience of Wearable Assistive Devices for Single-Sided Deafness”
The 6th BAIRAL research meeting for 2023 was held
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“Understanding and Generating Humor by Computers: Toward Smooth Communication between Human and AI”
The 3rd BAIRAL was held online on July 31, 2023. A
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“Co-creation of Agency: Towards Ethical Design for Social Robots”
The 9th BAIRAL was held online on February 3, 2023
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The Digital Archiving and Ethics of LGBTQ+
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In the 2023 academic year, the Trauma Reporting St
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HISS (the Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality
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“Exploratory analysis of perceptions of artificial intelligence among high school students living in Japan”
On February 27th, 2024, a hybrid meeting was hoste
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“Covering Trauma: Building Mental Fitness for Journalists”
On February 13, 2024, the Trauma Reporting
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“Rethinking trust in AI: Imaginaries, Habits, Ecologies”
The 5th BAIRAL research meeting for 2023 wa
Report on Lecture by Dr. Karen Shimakawa “Bodies, Affects, and Algorithms: AI and the Challenge of Live Performance”
＜Speaker＞ Dr. Karen Shimakawa（Associate Professor,
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Articles Exploring the Intersections of Performance, Culture, and Critical AI from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
On Dec 19, 2023, the 25th meeting of the B’AI Book
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On January 15, 2024, the lecture titled 
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“Stock and Flow of Cultural Resources to the Educational Field from the Perspective of ‘Relationship between Technology and Society’”
The 4th BAIRAL research meeting for 2022 was held
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“Survey on the Awareness of AI/Algorithms and Gender Equality Among Teenage and Twenties Women”
On January 23, 2024, the 26th session of the “B
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“Media and Diversity: Have Women’s Voices Reached the Media?”
On November 25, 2023, the second MeDi-B’AI S
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Tula Giannini and Jonathan P. Bowen eds. (2019) Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research.
On December 20, the 16th session of the B’AI Book
Report on the B’AI-UTokyo NY Office Event “The Future of Higher Education in the AI Age”
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“A Shift of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Postmodern Military”
The 4th BAIRAL research meeting for 2023 was held
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Articles on Queer Digital Archives
The 24th B’AI Book Club took place on November 28t
Report on Lecture by Jennifer Robertson ““SECURITAINMENT”: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance”
On November 27, 2023, Tokyo College and the B̵
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Minna Ruckenstein (2023) The Feel of Algorithms.
On October 24, 2023, the 23rd meeting of the B’AI
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Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis (2019) Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.
On June 28, 2022, the 12th session of the B’AI Boo
Report on the Lecture by Dr. Jeanette Hofmann Entitled “Imagining Democracy through the Lens of Learning Machines”
On October 20, 2023, the B’AI Global
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The talk on “Collective Memory, Dis/connect
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On September 30, 2023, the B’AI Global Foru
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The B’AI Global Forum Graduate Student Members at
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Journalism in Collaboration with ChatGPT with a focus on the Global South
On July 25, 2023, the 21st meeting of the B’AI Boo
Report on B’AI Global Forum Lecture Entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Society” for Fukuoka Prefectural Chikushigaoka High School Students
On August 4, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum we
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“Social Challenges Brought by Generative AI: Data Bias, Fake News, and Shaken Legal Systems”
On August 3, 2023, a symposium, “Social Chal
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B’AI Global Forum’s Director, Professor Yuko Itats
Report on the 20th B’AI Book Club
Mark Shepard (2022) There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life.
On June 27, 2023, the 20th meeting of the B’AI Boo
Report on the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Information Design to reduce Cognitive Bias: Visualization of User Generated Opinions”
On June 22, 2023, the 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting
Report on the 19th B’AI Book Club
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)
On May 23, 2023, the 19th meeting of the B’AI Book
Report on Lecture by Drs. Richard Carter-White and Maartje Roelofsen “Embodiment, Deferral and (Dis)inhibition: Learning and Teaching Geography with VR”
On December 6, 2022, the B’AI Global Forum h
Report on Workshop by Dr. Arnaud Claes “Algorithmic Personas: Effects of the Anthropomophization of Automated Media on User Reflexivity”
On May 23, 2023, the B’AI Global Forum welcomed Dr
Report on the 1th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023 “Experimenting with Speculative Interfaces: A Design-Based Approach to the Study of Algorithmic Practices”
On April 21, 2023, the first BAIRAL research meeti
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On March 30, 2023, “Media and Diversity Fo
B’AI Global Forum Annual Report 2022
The Annual Report 2022 of the B’AI Global Forum is
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In FY2022, the Trauma Reporting Study Group held t
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B’AI Global Forum, Yuko Itatsu, Ai Hisano (ed.) “Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power” (2023)
On March 22, 2023, the 18th meeting of the B’
The 10th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “Talking about SF Prototyping or not”
On March 3, 2023, the 10th “BAIRAL” Re
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James A. Banks, Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching, 6th Edition (2016)
On February 28, 2023, the 17th edition of the B’AI
Report on Lecture by Dr. Aynne Kokas “Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty”
On August 8, 2022, B‘AI Global Forum invited Dr. A
The 8th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “Digital Humanities and AI: Particularity, Commonality and Bias”
On December 16, 2022, the 8th BAIRAL research meet
Report on the Lecture by Dr. Justin Gest “Majority Minority: How Do Societies Respond to Demographic Change?”
On September 28, 2022, the B’AI Global Forum held
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Paul Roquet, The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan (2022)
On July 26th, 2022, B’AI Book Club, a book review
Report on a Visit to SoftBank HQ at Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba
“As the products we sell change, the company
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On November 16, 2022, “BAIRAL” (a stud
The 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “The Application of Social Science Research for Business”
On June 29th, 2022, “BAIRAL” (a study
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Enid Mumford “The story of socio-technical design: reflections on its successes, failures and potential” (2006)
On November 11, 2022, the 15th meeting of the B
Report on the Lecture by Dr. Lulu Shi “The Future(s) of Unpaid Work: How Susceptible Do Experts from Different Backgrounds Think the Domestic Sphere Is to Automation?”
The B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Dr. Lulu S
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Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (2020)
On September 27, 2022, the 14th meeting of the B’A
Report on the 10th B’AI Book Club
Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021)
On April 26, 2022, B’AI Book Club, a book review s
The 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “International Politics and AI: From Cybersecurity to Killer Robots”
On May 26, 2022, BAIRAL (a study group organized b
Report on the 4th Science Cafe “Social Imaginary of AI in East Asia”
On Monday, January 17, 2022, Associate Professor A
Report on the 7th B’AI Book Club
Jennifer Robertson, Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation (2017)
On December 21, 2021, the seventh meeting of the B
The 5th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “Information Visualization Technology and Its Application to Web and AI”
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, the fifth meeting fo
The 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “From When Are Algorithmic Decisions Assumed as Discriminatory?: A Philosophical Criticism Using Normative Theory”
On Saturday, October 9, 2021, we held the “B
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Kai-fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (2018)
On July 16th, 2021, the B’AI Book Club, a book rev
The 5th Installment Report on Talk Series on “Inequity, Stereotypes, and Stigma in Leisure”
On August 4, 2022, the B’AI Global Forum held the
Report on the Visit to the Special Exhibition “You and Robots: What is it to be Human?” at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo
On May 21, 2022, some members of the B’AI Gl
Report on the MeDi Workshop “Considering Media Coverage of Sexual Violence”
On Sunday, May 8, 2022, Media and Diversity Forum
Report on the 11th B’AI Book Club
Ricardo Baeza-Yates “Bias on the Web” (2018)
On March 31, 2022, the 11th meeting of the B’
B’AI Global Forum Annual Report 2021
The Annual Report 2021 of the B’AI Global Forum is
Report on the 9th B’AI Book Club
Karen Lumsden, Emily Harmer, Online Othering: Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web (2019)
On March 22, 2022, the ninth meeting of the B̵
The 8th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “Thinking about the Potential and Challenges of Data Journalism from the Perspective of the Frontline”
On March 15th, 2022, BAIRAL (a study group organiz
The 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “How far Can VR Make People Empathize?: Its Limitations and How to Use It”
On March 27th, 2022, BAIRAL (a study group organiz
Report on a Visit to the Dialogue Diversity Museum “Dialogue Forest (Taiwa no Mori)”
On March 30, 2022, several members of the B’
Report on the Trauma Reporting Study Group for 2021
The Trauma Reporting Study Group held eight readin
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Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021)
On February 22nd, 2022, B’AI Book Club, a book rev
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Francesco Marconi, Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism (2020)
On September 21, 2021, the B’AI Global Forum held
The 4th Installment Report on Talk Series on “Inequality, Stereotypes, and Stigma in Leisure”
On July 2, 2021, the B’AI Global Forum held the f
Report on the Online-Event “How Can VR Promote Awareness of Unconscious Bias?: About a Workshop Project Considering the Work Environment Surrounding Child-Rearing”
On Thursday, March 3, 2022, the event entitled “Ho
The 7th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “Considering the Ethics of AI Characters: Looking at the Case of ‘AI Rinna’”
On January 14, 2022, BAIRAL, a study group by rese
Report on the MeDi Workshop “Considering the House of Representatives Election Coverage and Its Gender Representation”
On Sunday, December 5, 2021, Media and Diversity F
Report on a Visit to the 2nd Artificial Intelligence Exhibition & Conference (Autumn)
The BʼAI Global Forum is a research group dedicate
Report on the Workshop “The History of Medialization and Empowerment: The Intersection of Women’s Rights Activism and the Media” (German Historical Institute London)
On January 20-21, 2022, Project Researcher Atsuko
The 6th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “Science and the Internet”
On December 9th, 2021, BAIRAL (a study group organ
Report on the 5th B’AI Book Club
Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (2018)
On October 26, 2021, B’AI Book Club, a book review
Report on the 6th B’AI Book Club
Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018)
On November 30th, 2021, B’AI Book Club, a book rev
Report on the MeDi Workshop “Considering Olympic and Paralympic Games Coverage and Its Gender Representation”
On Saturday, August 28, 2021, Media and Diversity
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Rana El Kaliouby and Carol Colman, Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology (2020)
On June 22nd, 2021, B’AI Book Club, a book review
Report on the Lecture by Dr. Ai Hisano “Taste and Vision in History: The Transformation of “Aesthetics” and the Rise of Consumer Society”
On Friday, May 28, 2021, B’AI Global Forum h
Report on the 2021 Academic Exchange Session of the China-Japan Young Elite Program of Shanghai Jiao Tong University: “Proposal to Utilize Digital Transformation to Promote Gender Equality”
From August 23 (Mon.) to 29 (Sun.), 2021, the 2nd
The 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “The Development of the Dictionary Enabling Deaf Children to Look up Basic Japanese Verbs from Japanese Sign Language”
On April 24, 2021, BAIRAL invited members of a res
The 3rd Installment Report on Talk Series on “Inequity, Stereotypes, and Stigma in Leisure”
The third installment of the talk series on “Inequ
The 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “Crowdsourcing GIS and Diversity”
On June 28th, 2021, BAIRAL (a study group organize
Report on the lecture by Phebe Vayanos “Towards Robust, Interpretable, and Fair Social and Public Health Interventions”
On the 27th of August, Dr. Phebe Vayanos joined B’
Report on the lecture by Ivana Bartoletti “Power, Politics, & AI: Building a Better Future”
On the 30th of August, Ivana Bartoletti joined B’A
Report on the lecture by Dr. Ana Beduschi “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies at the Border: Migration and Human Rights Considerations”
On the 25th of August, Dr. Ana Beduschi joined B’A
The 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2021 Report on “Ethical Issues in the Use of AI”
On Thursday, June 3, 2021, the second BAIRAL resea
Report on the 1st B’AI Book Club
Yarden Katz, Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence (2020)
On May 12th, 2021, B’AI Book Club held its first m
Workshop Report on “Introduction to Data Analysis with R”
In April 2021, the B’AI Global Forum, in col
B’AI Global Forum Annual Report 2020
The Annual Report 2020 of the B’AI Global Forum is
B’AI Global Forum Launch Event Report on “Gender Justice in the AI Era: A dialogue on engagement and activism”
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, the B’AI Globa
The 2nd Installment Report on Talk Series on “Inequity, Stereotypes, and Stigma in Leisure”
The second installment of the talk series “Inequit
By Workshop Report on “AI x Gender Online Workshop with Design Thinking”
On March 3 (Wed.) and 5 (Fri.), 2021, B’AI Global
The 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2020 Report on “Differences between a web news company and a newspaper and fact-checking in news production processes”
On March 24th, 2021, BAIRAL (a study group organiz
The 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2020 Report on “Detection of Luring and Cyberbullying Using Network Analysis”
BAIRAL, a study group by B’AI’s resear
The 2nd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2020 Report on “Clarifying Gender Bias in Newsrooms: A collaborative project ‘AIJO’ with eight companies around the world”
On January 27, 2021, “BAIRAL,” which is a study se
By The 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2020 Report on “Media Theories on Search Engine Rankings”
On December 18th, 2020, BAIRAL (a study group orga
Report on the MeDi Symposium “Closing the Gender Gap: Challenges for the Future of Media in the Digital Information Society”
On Saturday, December 12, 2020, MeDi (group workin
The 1st Installment Report on Talk Series on “Inequity, Stereotypes, and Stigma in Leisure”
The first meeting of the research series, “I
National Museum of Japanese History
“Gender in Japanese History” Tour Report
On Monday, November 23, 2020, B’AI held a bus tour