AGENCY
Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms
AGENCY
A multidisciplinary project seeking to understand the role of agency in the complex online harms both groups and individuals experience, so we can better respond to those harms in a way that empowers users.
Overview
The online world is a curious but uncertain world. Whilst it brings connectivity and vast quantities of information, it can also be used to cause harm. Complex harms tend to happen to citizens, and, in most cases, they are not purposely caused or easily controlled by citizens. Bringing together experts across different disciplines and engaging with all stakeholders, crucially citizens themselves, AGENCY seeks to understand complex online harms and propose ways citizens can be empowered to have more control and confidence using the internet.
The Case Study Approach
AGENCY Research can be broken down into 4 different topics/case studies:
Updates from AGENCY
AGENCY visits CyFer
Led by Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad (Co-Investigator on AGENCY), the Cyber Security, Privacy, Bias and Trust in FemTech…
2023: Blog Post: Challenges of Extracting Data from Social Media: The Case of Women’s Health Misinformation
Author: Dr Adrian Bermudez-Villalva (adriano.bermudezvillalva@rhul.ac.uk) In the field of cybersecurity research, gathering data from social media platforms…
Reimagining AI Governance
A Response by AGENCY to the UK Government’s White Paper AI Regulation: A Pro-Innovation Approach. Abstract: On…