Navigating the online landscape in Aotearoa
Description
To celebrate the launch of Navigating the Online Landscape, a new Community Research Special Collection, we invite you to a webinar bringing together a panel of diverse and highly-respected speakers for an insightful and timely panel discussion about the rapidly evolving online landscape and its use locally. Now, more than ever, it is essential to raise the visibility of unique priorities, community concerns and aspirations for how we navigate these spaces in Aotearoa. Drawing on local evidence, lived experience, and community knowledge, and framed by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, equity, and intersectionality, this webinar will explore how online harms can directly and indirectly diminish participation, wellbeing, visibility, and self-determination.
We are very pleased to be joined by our panel: Anjum Rahman, Karaitiana Taiuru, Suze Wilson, and Tracey Nichols for short presentations, followed by an audience Q&A.
Navigating the Online Landscape is a living and evolving Special Collection hosted by Community Research. It brings together Aotearoa-based research, resources, and community knowledge on content-based online harms, digital safety needs, structural questions about platform business models, operational practices, and the opportunities online spaces create for communities. This collection is a collaboration involving Community Research, Tāhono Trust, Amnesty International New Zealand, and the Online Safety Coalition. We thank the many researchers and knowledge-makers for their important mahi and for their contributions to the collection.
Panelists
Anjum Rahman
Anjum Rahman is founder and facilitator of Tāhono Trust, formed in 2019 to build belonging and inclusion in Aotearoa through community development, training, collaborative partnerships and more. The #NoHarmware campaign in partnership with Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand advocates for better regulation of platforms to ensure free speech and reduce online harm. Ms Rahman is part of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, and has been an inaugural co-chair. She was part of the Independent Accountability Group convened by Te Kāhui Tika Tangata (TKTT) to review the Aotearoa New Zealand Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harm, and was a member of the Expert Advisory Group convened by TKTT for their report AI and Digital Technologies: A Human Rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi Approach.
Karaitiana Taiuru
Karaitiana Taiuru is a Māori AI and digital-governance expert specialising in Māori Data Sovereignty, AI governance, tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, algorithmic bias and Indigenous intellectual property in Aotearoa New Zealand. Taiuru & Associates advises boards, government agencies, iwi, Māori organisations, universities and technology companies on the governance, risks and rights implications of AI and emerging technologies.
Suze Wilson
Suze Wilson an Associate Professor in the School of Management and Marketing at Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa. Her research work focusses on leadership and she is a co-lead investigator of a Marsden Funded project examining the lived experience of online misogyny by women demonstrating leadership in politics, journalism and academia.
Tracey Nicholls
Tracey Nicholls is an independent researcher and co-principal investigator on the Marsden-funded research project ‘Misogyny, rhetorical violence and the invisibilised entwining of digital and embodied social worlds.’ She has taught philosophy, feminist political theory, gender studies and peace studies at universities in the United States, Japan and Aoteroa New Zealand.
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