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PORTLAND, Maine

UNE’s Center for Global Humanities to host lecture titled “Technology, Self & Society in an Era of Digital Rankings” on September 28

How can we maintain our individuality in a technological era that encourages us to obsess over “points,” “likes,” and “faves”? How can we live private lives when Facebook, Google, and other internet behemoths are tracking our every online move?

A lecture titled “Technology, Self & Society in an Era of Digital Rankings” at the University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities will shed light on these and other questions, helping attendees recognize the ways in which their thinking and behavior are shaped by the technologies they use every day.  

Eminent scholar Frank Pasquale will deliver the lecture on Monday, September 28 at 6 p.m. in the WCHP Lecture Hall at Parker Pavilion on UNE’s Portland Campus. The event includes a public reception at the UNE Art Gallery at 5 p.m.

Pasquale is a professor of law at the University of Maryland as well as a member of the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society and an affiliate fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. He frequently lectures on the ethical, legal and social implications of information technology for attorneys, physicians and other health professionals. His book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015) develops a social theory of reputation, search and finance.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.