The Neuroscience and Law Center presents

What’s Up with TikTok, Twitter (X), Meta, Etc.? The Law and Neuroscience of Social Media

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

11 a.m. - 5:10 p.m.

Zoom Webinar

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About

Over 4.7 billion people worldwide actively engage with social media each day, and 210 million suffer from social media addiction, sparking concerns about societal well-being and safety. With TikTok alone boasting nearly two billion users globally, worries about data privacy and national security have also escalated, resulting in unprecedented efforts by Congress to ban the application by 2025.

During this symposium, experts in law, psychology, and technology will provide insights into the compulsive nature of virtual networks, the implications of government regulation, and their profound impact on society, politics, and information dissemination.

Agenda

11:00 – 11:10 am | Welcome

Joseph Landau, JD

Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Deborah W. Denno, PhD, JD

Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law, Founding Director, Neuroscience and Law Center, Fordham University School of Law

11:10 am – 12:25 pm | Panel 1: The Neuroscience and Psychology of Social Media: Influence and Addiction

Linda Charmaraman, PhD

Director, Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Research Lab, Wellesley Centers for Women

Matthew Lawrence, JD

Associate Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics, Co-Medical Director, AAP Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Mitch J. Prinstein, PhD, ABPP

John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University North Carolina; Chief Science Officer, American Psychological Association

Chinmayi Sharma, JD (moderator)

Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

12:25 – 12:30 pm | Short Break

12:30 – 2:00 pm | Panel 2: The Control and Regulation of Social Media 

Eric Goldman, JD

Associate Dean for Research and Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law

Kate Klonick, PhD, JD 

Associate Professor of Law, St. John’s University School of Law

James Andrew Lewis, PhD

Senior Vice President and Pritzker Chair, Director, Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Sunny Xun Liu, PhD 

Director of Research, Stanford Social Media Lab

Debbie Reynolds, BA

Founder, CEO & Chief Data Privacy Officer, Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC

Ron Lazebnik, JD (moderator)

Associate Dean for Administration, Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

2:00 – 2:30 pm | Lunch Break

2:30 – 3:45 pm | Panel 3: Privacy, National Security and Ethical Concerns Presented by Social Media

Gaia Bernstein, JD, LLM 

Technology, Privacy and Policy Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection; Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology, Seton Hall Law School

Danielle Keats Citron, JD

Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law, Caddell and Chapman Professor of Law; Director, Law Tech Center, University of Virginia School of Law

Timothy Edgar, JD 

Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, Brown University

Peter Swire, JD

J.Z. Liang Chair, School of Cybersecurity & Privacy, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Thomas H. Lee, JD (moderator)

Leitner Family Professor of International Law, Fordham University School of Law

3:45 – 3:50 pm | Short Break

3:50 – 5:05 pm | Panel 4: Navigating Social Justice, Ethical, and Constitutional Issues in the Age of Social Media

Mary Anne Franks, MPhil, DPhil, JD

Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law, George Washington University Law School

Charlton McIlwain, PhD

Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Geoffrey R. Stone, JD 

Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Zephyr Teachout, JD 

Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Abner S. Greene, JD (moderator)

Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

5:05 – 5:10 pm | Concluding Remarks

Erica Valencia-Graham, JD

Research Director & Edelman Fellow, Neuroscience and Law Center, Fordham University School of Law

5 CLE credits available, 3 Ethics and Professionalism,1 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection Ethics,1 Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias

The event is made possible through the generous support of the John Diane Simpson Family Foundation; John O. McManus and the Team at McManus & Associates