Voicebox: Mozilla Festival
Mozilla Festival is a unique experience, bringing the most exciting developments in technology and culture. The festival explores how the two intertwine and is underpinned by advocacy for the open internet movement. Visit mozillafestival.org to experience it 8th to 19th March.
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17 March 2022MisInfoCon: The disinformation ecosystem in 2022: new, authentic, and recurring actors
View BlogAs part of Mozilla Festival, Rachael Levy discusses the importance of acknowledging disinformation threats in all forms
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17 March 2022MisInfoCon: intersectionality and gendered disinformation targeting women in politics
View BlogMozilla Festival’s roundtable discussion on gendered disinformation led by DeVan Hankerson Madrigal, Irene Mwendwa, and Gabriela De Oliveira.
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17 March 2022MozFest '22 - Let's Get Litical : Does AI Have A Seat In Government?
View BlogAI, whether you realise it or not, has certainly had an effect on your life in some sort of capacity. With the technology gaining power every single day there are conversations to be had on its limits - ‘Let’s Get Litical’ does so at MozFest.
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21 March 2021Decentralizing circumvention: a DIY approach to making censor-resistant apps
View BlogTo challenge internet censorship in China, GreatFire has released an AppMaker service with censorship-circumvention in mind. GreatFire Grants Manager, Dan McDevitt, led a session at MozFest 2021 to give more details about this service!
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21 March 2021Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect
View BlogSometimes, the simplest things can be cause for laughter. Using a Markov chain with a corpus of characters, this was the goal of the MozFest 2021 session ‘Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect’, led by creative coder, Hay Kranen.
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19 March 2021Munich Science & Fiction Festival: The fusion of art and tech
View BlogThis Mozilla Festival session explored the hybrid nature of events, using a groundbreaking festival as an example of what can be achieved when art and technology come together.
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19 March 2021Exploring Internet censorship through OONI data
View BlogInternet censorship has become a topic of discussion in recent years as social media websites or apps are blocked in different countries. OONI is an organisation focused on highlighting such censorship and held a session at MozFest to discuss this!
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19 March 2021The economics of the future of food
View BlogMozilla Festival’s event ‘The Economics of the Future of Food’ explained how technology and agriculture are intersecting to change how our food is grown.
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19 March 2021The Emoji Story documentary
View BlogShowcased to Mozilla Festival attendees, The Emoji Story is a delightful documentary charting the history, creation process, and future of the little icons we know and love.
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17 March 2021Making Monsters at Mozilla Festival
View BlogMozilla Festival led attendees into the 3D world of monster making.
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17 March 2021The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical
View Blog‘The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical’ aimed to provide an insight into what podcasting may look like in the near-future, using Object-Based Media. As it turns out, this future is exciting, and may be closer than it seems!
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17 March 2021Unveiling conversational voice design
View BlogAI voices are now part of our everyday lives, but how are they designed? Mozilla Festival’s event ‘A Primer on Conversational Voice Design’ gave us the lowdown.
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15 March 2021Recommenders with a mission: towards a more diverse internet
View News‘Recommenders with a mission: towards a more diverse internet’ focused on the way in which news is recommended to us as readers, and how news diversity can be a complex topic of discussion.
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15 March 2021Strangest sights on Google Earth
View BlogMozilla Festival’s event ‘Strangest sights on Google Earth’ took attendees on a global tour through our laptop screens and highlighted a little known story-telling tool.
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15 March 2021‘On the side of the Web’ Screening at MozFest
View NewsDigital Grassroots a youth- led organisation screens their short film ‘On this Side of The Web’ at this year's first virtual MozFest.
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15 March 2021Developing fake news immunity
View BlogAs misinformation has become more common in recent years, University of Liverpool researchers Elinor Carmi and Elena Musi led a session at MozFest 2021 that focused on being able to identify fake news using their Fake News Immunity Chatbot.
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12 March 2021Preserving our heritage through website archiving
View BlogLike anything with immense cultural and historical impact, the internet should be archived for posterity. At this Mozilla Festival event, Thomas Preece explained the reasons for and strategies behind web archiving.
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12 March 2021Investigating Xinjiang's network of mass internment camps
View BlogArchitecture, satellite imagery and journalism coalesce to uncover China’s mass internment of Uighur Muslims, one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our times.
