Gender in the immersive digital future – a new matriarchy? – BigStage 2020

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BigStage 2020 overview

Session teaser

Gender in the immersive digital future: a new matriarchy? Our Big Stage presentation will present a Virtual Reality human and Mother-AI debate about the emerging social changes in the digital society of the 21st century. The focus will be placed on increasingly technology-mediated gender relationships. In our session, we shall host a conversation of two human participants represented by relevant virtual avatar(male & female)and a gender-neutral, robot-like AI.The AI, which will be the central figure of the discussion, will act as a voice of reason from the near future and will explain the principles of human relations in the emerging world. In particular, the Mother-AI will answer questions given by "limited human participants" about the future of mankind. That cyber-human dialogue will have a form of a debate about the opportunities and risks attached to the fast-changing digital reality. The scene can be considered a technological adaptation and reinvention of the "first humans in paradise" trying to find their way in the new environment. Finally, the Mother-AI will take the two human participants to the far future to give them more shocking and surprising details.

Format

"Gender in the immersive digital future – a new matriarchy?" will be presented as 15 - 18 minutes artistic video blending human discussion, philosophical observations, AI elements and graphics in VR. The video material will be both informative, thought provoking and entertaining for the audience.

Further reading

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/future-work-work-future

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-sexist-recruiting-algorithm-gender-bias-ai/?europe=true#Z1QZj8ur2qqG

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/amazon-s-gender-biased-algorithm-is-not-alone

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/84bd6dea-2351-11e8-ac73-01aa75ed71a1

https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/disinfodemic_dissecting_responses_covid19_disinformation.pdf

EPRA. Achieving greater diversity in broadcasting - special focus on gender; Benefits and best practice approaches Comparative background paper (2018)

https://erga-online.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ERGA_2019_SG4_Report.pdf

You could also read about some best practices. https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/site/diversity-inclusion-commissioning-guidelines-bbc-content.pdf BBC (UK) developed a “Content Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines”, providing guidelines to BBC’s partners in order to allow the broadcaster to attain its 2020 goals regarding representation of ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQI persons and disabled persons. The guide defines quantitative objectives for each of diversity categories to achieve diversity goals in 5 on and off-screen categories: portrayal, casting, production teams, entry-level positions and senior editorial roles. Industry players (broadcasters, both public and private) in the UK (and by the NRA also in Ireland) initiated programmes to develop opportunities for female professionals in technical careers, whether crew or technology. The industry developed a Tech Talent Charter setting goals to promote development, growth and retention of women in technology sector, encouraging practices supporting attraction, recruitment and retention practices designed to increase diversity in the workforce, defining timetable and strategy relevant for each organization – as each organization is not situated on the same level regarding diversity. Audiovisual media services offer education schemes and scholarships allowing access for women to tech education and project development. Workshops on the state of play of position of women in technical production followed by development of practical tools and outreach project to inspire change were organized by BBC radio. The goal - gender balance in important creative and technical roles and the effective implementation of gender balance in these roles. The simple fact of collecting information on gender balance did have a positive impact on gender breakdown in creative and technical teams.

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