2020.Dec.17

EVENTS

The 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2020
“Media Theories on Search Engine Rankings”

◇BAIRAL（B’AI RA League）

BAIRAL (B’AI RA League) is a study group by young research assistants (RA) of the B’AI Global Forum of the Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo. Aiming to achieve gender equality and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI era, this study group examines relationships between digital information technology and society. BAIRAL organizes monthly research meetings with guest speakers in a variety of fields.

 

◇Date & Venue

・Date : Friday, December 18, 2020, 18:00-19:30 (JST)

・Venue : Zoom Meeting (No registration required)

・Language : Japanese

 

◇Guest Speaker

Atsushi Udagawa

: PhD Student, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo; Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and Meiji Gakuin University. Graduated from the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University. He specializes in media theory and media history, and while working in digital marketing and UX design at an Internet company, he has focused his research on the relationship between ranking systems and platforms in digital media.

Recent publications (for reference): https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/75440)

 

◇Abstract

We live in a society where ranking systems are pervasive in various forms, and search engines such as Google and Yahoo! are representative examples of such systems, which have spread rapidly with the emergence of the Internet. Mr. Udagawa, the lecturer of this meeting, has been studying the search engine, which has become an indispensable tool in our daily lives and is becoming increasingly transparent, from the perspective of media theory. In this meeting, the relationship between society and information technology such as search engines will be discussed, based on Mr. Udagawa’s professional background and past research.

 

◇Organizer

B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo

 

◇Inquiry

Hiroki Kato (PhD Student, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo)

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