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What is the public’s perception of deepfake technology’s impact on society? This study reports findings from a reflective thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with 33 US adults. Among the themes that represent participants’ perception of the technology’s impact on society, the following most salient themes are reported: increase in political misinformation; increased political and ideological polarization of society; increase in the number of conspiratorial videos; increased potential of harm to marginalized groups and individuals; and children’s vulnerability to being deceived via deepfakes. In addition, a summary theme collating public perspectives on positive implications of deepfake technology is presented. This study lays the groundwork for further qualitative and quantitative investigations of deepfake technology’s impact on society as understood from the perspective of society’s foremost constituents—people.

This research challenges dominant understandings of ubiquity, mobility, and connectivity and explores the limits ICTs through a qualitative study of a collaborative capacity-building initiative to localize the repair of medical devices and equipment in the Gaza Strip. Dominant perceptions of ICT affordances rely upon taken-for-granted political, economic, and social systems that are neither universal nor guaranteed. Using a thickly descriptive, interpretivist approach, this research shows how ICTs are fundamentally insufficient to support team collaboration and meet the affective and material requisites of collaborative work under conditions of occupation. Digital networked technologies are particularly limited in their ability to create, simulate, and/or foster the interdependent conditions of presence, flow, and coordination required for cooperative work to succeed. Geopolitical borders and concomitant conditions of occupation continuously disrupt the logics of time and space between those living and working in Gaza and the “outside world”. Arbitrary and capricious fluctuations in tolerance, temporality, persistence, and permeability wrought by the ongoing siege of Gaza result in pernicious harms that are difficult or impossible to account for or correct with technical “solutions.”

Despite rising awareness of the critical importance of Indigenous data sovereignty principles for the empowerment of Indigenous communities, there is minimal evidence of any engagement from cybersecurity policy makers or researchers to actualise these goals. This paper reports preliminary findings from the first phase of a more extensive research programme investigating cybersecurity in relation to Indigenous communities, which analysed national cybersecurity policies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.

Cross-domain integration of information is increasingly identified as a priority across public sector contexts because (in theory) it enables the use of more information, including information from groups and communities historically excluded from public sector decision making. In this paper, we reject the tendency to take ‘integration’ for granted, arguing the need to position cross-domain integration as an information practice, and conducting mixed methods thematic analysis of government strategic documents to validate the utility of this approach. We find that depending on the type of information proposed to be integrated — digital data versus the knowledge of peoples and communities — our sample of Canadian government institutions treats cross-domain integration with differing levels of procedural rigour and detail. Reflecting ASIS&T 2024 themes of prioritizing responsibility and reflexivity in information practice, and of cultivating community partnerships through practice, not merely in name, we discuss the information hierarchies that emerge in the cross-domain information integration in government and the associated impacts on stakeholder communities.