Discussion | 02.04.2021, 7 pm.
Live at Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City
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‘Social order in the digital society’
Modern institutions, both public and private, rely on tools and procedures that track individuals, assess their behavior, and assign them membership in various categories. They use them, variously, in their efforts to monitor conduct, calculate risk, or extract value. These classifications distribute value, rank people and things, and shape their future lives.
How is social order constituted and legitimated in a society ruled by digital classifiers and associated actuarial techniques? What do these developments mean for fundamental principles such as equality and fairness? What are the moral implications of looking at individuals through the lens of these new classificatory architectures? And how do we justify the use of techniques that are growing ever more efficient at predicting outcomes but are ever less amenable to human sense making?
ABOUT THE EXPERTS
MARION FOURCADE
© Marion Fourcade
Modern institutions, both public and private, rely on tools and procedures that track individuals, assess their behavior, and assign them membership in various categories. They use them, variously, in their efforts to monitor conduct, calculate risk, or extract value. These classifications distribute value, rank people and things, and shape their future lives.
How is social order constituted and legitimated in a society ruled by digital classifiers and associated actuarial techniques? What do these developments mean for fundamental principles such as equality and fairness? What are the moral implications of looking at individuals through the lens of these new classificatory architectures? And how do we justify the use of techniques that are growing ever more efficient at predicting outcomes but are ever less amenable to human sense making?
Marion Fourcade has a BA in Sociology (Univ. of Paris 7) and in Economics (Univ. of Paris 1), a Ma in Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Ph.D. in Sociology (Harvard University). She is presently professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and an associate fellow of the Franco-German MaxPo Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies. Marion Fourcade upcoming book The Ordinal Society investigates new forms of social stratification and morality in the digital economy.
DR. TRAN MY MINH CHAU
© Tran My Minh Chau
Lecturer in Economics at University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
She holds an MA in economics from Lincoln University, New Zealand and a PhD from Monash University, Australia. Her researches focus on gender inequality in labour markets and the effect of early childhood conditions on disadvantaged groups. She is also interested in behavior economics and experimental economics and has had experiences conducting experiments in Vietnam.
Dr. Minh Chau has also published many articles in some leading prestigious magazines such as International Journal of Social Economics, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Associate Prof.Dr. VO TRI HAO
© Vo Tri Hao
Rector of Gia Dinh University, Ho Chi Minh City
Arbitrator at Vietnam International Arbitration Center (VIAC)
Before: Dean of Business Law Faculty, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City.
Associate Prof.Dr. Vo Tri Hao holds a Bachelor's degree and Master in Laws from Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He studied politics at the University of Massachusetts. In 2011, he gained his PhD degree in Law from the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
He has been a lecturer in Business law, Administrative law, Constitutional law, Theory on State and law at the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Business Law at The National University of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics.
Associate Prof.Dr. Vo Tri Hao has also published on law, politics and related issues in national and foreign newspapers and magazines such as The Science Magazine of Hanoi National University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Journal of Legislative Studies (Vietnam National Assembly Office), Europe Study Magazine, etc.
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