BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/saving-our-digital- world/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0b2fe72a-c27a-4a07-8ad2-d506cb37d6ad SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260619T213124 DTSTART:20260620T160000 DTEND:20260620T170000 SUMMARY:Saving our digital world LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (MA R.1.10\, Marshall Building) DESCRIPTION:Saturday 20 June 2026 5pm - 6pmSpeakersIndira RayAdele Zeynep WaltonChairProfessor Nick CouldryHow can we reduce the inequalities and ha rms of commercial social media and the online world\, while building space s that better support our human need to connect and communicate?Meet your speaker and chairIndira Ray is a social media presenter who recently compl eted her undergraduate studies in Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE. For the past three years\, alongside her degree\, she has worked as a Content Creator at LSE\, producing over 100 short- and long-form videos for an audience of more than two million followers across TikTok\, Instagr am\, Facebook\, YouTube and LinkedIn. Her work spans research explainers\, documentary episodes and live event coverage — translating complex acad emic\, political and economic ideas into accessible digital storytelling. In September\, Indira will join Bloomberg as a Trainee Journalist.Adele Ze ynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist reporting on the human impact s of digital technology and social media and the author of Logging Off: T he Human Cost of Our Digital World. Having channelled a personal loss int o campaigning for a safe digital future\, Adele is an online safety camp aigner with Families and Survivors to Prevent Online Suicide Harm and B ereaved Families for Online Safety. She regularly works with parliamentar ians and policy-makers\, bereaved families and parents to campaign for tec h accountability and suicide prevention. Adele has been interviewed by Rad io 4\, The Times\, BBC News\, Channel 4\, 5Live\, CBC\, Al Jazeera\, LBC\, Sky News\, The Guardian and many more. Adele has also featured in the doc umentary Error 404: The Internet In Crisis. She is also a member of the  Online Safety Act Network \, a Founding Member of EU youth movement Ctrl + Alt + Reclaim and recently spoke at Davos. She is also the co-founder of Logging Off Club\, a global movement promoting community and connectio n through their phone-free events.Nick Couldry is Professor of Media\, Com munications and Social Theory Emeritus and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. As a sociologist of me dia and culture\, he approaches media and communications from the perspect ive of the symbolic power that has been historically concentrated in media institutions. He is interested in how media and communications institutio ns and infrastructures contribute to various types of order (social\, poli tical\, cultural\, economic\, ethical). His work has drawn on\, and contri buted to\, social\, spatial\, democratic and cultural theory\, anthropolog y\, and media and communications ethics. His analysis of media as ‘pract ice’ has been widely influential. In the past 10 years\, his work has in creasingly focussed on data questions\, and ethics\, politics and deep soc ial implications of Big Data and small data practices.More about this even tThis event is part of the LSE Festival: How to save the planet running fr om Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2026. This year's Festival explores how e xistential threats including the climate crisis\, conflict and AI are affe cting all parts of the world\, transforming the way and where we live\, an d how our societies function. With a series of events asking what can we b e doing to save the Earth\, its people and environment? Booking for all Fe stival events will open on Monday 18 May.There will be book sales before o r after this event in the Great Hall. 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