ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital technologies and religion have more in common than meets the eye, as they both produce futures in both professional and popular imagination. The ideal of an Islamic information society spearheading the latest technologies offers a model for an alternative to the dominant pathways of digital transition: Californian \u2018big tech\u2019, the Chinese social credit system, or European regulation.<\/p>\n The |0100| Team investigates the Islamic Information Society\u2019s most controversial component \u2013 artificial intelligence \u2013 with multimodal and mixed methods, comparing and contrasting narratives and imagery of digital religious futures in the national settings of Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, each with a considerable yet differently positioned Muslim population. It situates ethical dilemmas surrounding algorithms, bots and deep learning by ethnographically and longitudinally observing and interviewing makers and users. Innovatively using a historical analysis of future-making discourse, we probe big and \u2018thick data\u2019 (\u2018in situ\u2019 and through digital ethnography) and use infographics, animations and comics to both map and represent \u2018scripted futures\u2019. |0100| delivers salient ethnographic portraits as well as an overarching socio-anthropological analysis, of what digital everyday religion is like, how Southeast Asians use AI \u2018in the wild\u2019, and how digital technology contributes to exciting societal experiments and ethical dilemmas.<\/p>\n PRESENTER’S PROFILE<\/strong><\/p>\n Bart Barendregt is scientific director of the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) and a Professor and UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity. He is currently PI of the NWO-VICI project One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam.<\/p>\n E-mail: BARENDREGT@fsw.leidenuniv.nl<\/p>\n Date: 17 May 2023 (Wednesday) 10.00 a.m.: Introduction by Moderator & welcoming remarks by Dr. Shamsul A.B. FASc, Distinguished Professor and UNESCO Chair (Communication & Social Cohesion); KITA Founding Director Join via Zoom<\/a><\/p>\n Join via Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TENTATIVE PROGRAMME<\/h3>\n
\nTime: 10 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m. (GMT +8)
\nVenue: Keris Perdana Meeting Room, Level 3, Kolej Keris Mas, 每日大赛app
\nPlatform: Zoom & KITA Facebook page (links below)<\/p>\n
\n10.10 a.m.: Seminar by Prof. Dr. Bart Barendregt
\n11.10 a.m.: Q & A Session
\n12.00 p.m.: Closing<\/p>\n