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CIM and The Centre for Global Health Law would like to invite you to join them for a talk by Professor Anuj Kapilashrami on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 3.00 – 5.00 PM in Room S0.13, Social Sciences Building.

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle brings together staff and students across the University of Warwick who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground Warwick’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Fangzhou Zhang (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and Nathaniel Tkacz (Goldsmiths, University of London), have coauthored a new article "Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink".

Based on an extensive literature review on social media migration, and empirical data drawing on a survey of Mastodon users after the Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, and social media analysis, the authors propose a new theory of eventful migration. This eventful migration theory widens the conceptual scope for how to approach SocialMedia Migration in ways that more directly tie such movements to specific questions of power, agency and events that ripple through digital cultures. They do so by shifting from pull-push factors to eventfulness, which they divide into five components: (1) X factor; (2) critical voice; (3) collective platform consciousness; (4) migration; and (5) terrain transformation.

The Governor of Santiago, Claudio Orrego, has launched the result of a year-long study by LSE Cities to improve urban policy design and delivery of Chile’s leading metropolitan region. CIM's Carla Washbourne contributed to this study as an international urban expert in the LSE Santiago Urban Age Task Force. Read more here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7354463971808026626/Link opens in a new window

Trust was once the cornerstone of digital security, but that is rapidly changing. A new study titled “The volatility of trust: Zero Trust and Distributed Trust as ‘post-trust’ cybersecurity models” explores cybersecurity’s shift into a “post-trust” era. The research, by Dr. Daniele Pizio and Dr. Matt Spencer, examines two paradigms – Zero Trust and Distributed Trust – which reshape security by removing assumptions of implicit trust. The key insight is that these models are
not just technical innovations; they deeply involve human and organizational dimensions in digital protection.

Coverage of the report aired on the BBC World Service Tech Live last Tuesday at 8:30pm, as well as afterwards on the Tech Live podcast