{"id":3987,"date":"2026-02-25T15:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:55:29","slug":"en101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/events\/en101\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6th BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025 <br> \u201cNegotiating Masculinity in the Age of Algorithms\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u25c7<\/strong><strong>BAIRAL<\/strong><strong>\uff08<\/strong><strong>B\u2019AI RA League<\/strong><strong>\uff09<br \/>\n<\/strong>BAIRAL is a study group by young research assistants (RA) of the B\u2019AI 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 research meetings every other month with guest speakers in a variety of fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Date &amp; Venue<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u30fbDate: Monday, March 9, 2026, 17:00\u201318:30 (Japan Time GMT+9) \/ 9:00-10:30 (Sweden Time GMT+1)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u30fbVenue: Online via Zoom\uff08No registration required\uff09<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us\/j\/84466062494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us\/j\/84466062494<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meeting ID: 844 6606 2494<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u30fbLanguage: English<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Guest Speaker<\/strong><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Amanda Persson, Doctoral Student in Information Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University (Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Abstract<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My research seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the ongoing negotiations of masculinity that emerge at the intersection of content from the so called manosphere, algorithmic recommendation systems, and young cisgender men\u2019s information activities on social media platforms. I focus on boys and men living in Sweden and examine how they engage with content that promotes essentialist, heteronormative, and misogynistic ideals of masculinity across platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my lecture on March 9, I will discuss how algorithmic recommendation systems today actively contribute to shaping young boys\u2019 and men\u2019s understandings of masculinity in Sweden, highlighting the dynamic interplay between these systems and users\u2019 everyday information activities.<br \/>\n<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong>\u00a0\u25c7Organizer<\/strong><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>B\u2019AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Inquiry<\/strong><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ama\u00ebl COGNACQ <\/span>(Research assistant of the B\u2019AI Global Forum)<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><a href=\"mailto:bai.global.forum@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bai.global.forum@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3992\" src=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BAIRAL6-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BAIRAL6-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BAIRAL6-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BAIRAL6-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BAIRAL6-1229x1536.png 1229w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BAIRAL6.png 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25c7BAIRAL\uff08B\u2019AI RA League\uff09 BAIRAL is a study group by<\/p>\n<div class=\"continue-reading-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/events\/en101\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue Reading<i class=\"ion-ios-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,76,62],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-ai","tag-ai-and-social-justice","tag-bairal"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}