User Content?

What’s on offer?

User Content? explores the individual's relationship with their data. What does it mean to tick ‘I Agree’ to the T&Cs of apps or web services? Colliding creative practice with insights from law and tech, the exhibition interrogates the power imbalance between individual data subjects and giant corporate data users. User Content? probes what this relationship means to us as individuals and asks just how content are we with it?

What’s it about?

The topic touches on how we use social media and other apps, so it has a general appeal. Even though the specific angle of ownership and control over our data is already widely debated in the media, the implications and significance of sharing data is rarely acted out in an interactive, playful design. The exhibit's creative drive will be to inform attendees about the dangers of sharing data by offering a fresh and attractive angle, as well as fun and experiential displays to draw in an audience.

Who’s leading the event?

This interdisciplinary collaboration between creative practice and legal tech is the first co-creation of LawTech Collider, a project at the Legal Innovation Centre of Ulster University which promotes creative practice as a means to explore law’s ability to control digital technological processes for society’s good.

Open to

People who use social media, focusing in particular on women and young people, to inspire them to think about what they post and the implications of how they share their and others’ data.

Of particular interest to

This exhibition would be of interest to anyone interested in what happens to their data online.

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