Exploring Digital Life, Technology Change and Attitudes to AI through National Datasets Webinar

Description:

The Data Resources Training Network is holding the second webinar in their 2025 series, co-organised by the NCRM, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, European Social Survey, Understanding Society, Administrative Data Research UK and the UK Data Service. The details of the event are found below:

Exploring Digital Life, Technology Change and Attitudes to AI through National Datasets

The webinar will focus on secondary, quantitative data. It will take place on Teams on the 19th of November from 14:00 – 15:30.   The speakers will be:

• Athina Vlachantoni who will examine patterns of intergenerational digital contact before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Wave Nine and the first wave of the ELSA COVID-19 Sub-study, this talk overviews shifts in digital communication use among older people during the pandemic and reflects on the gender gap and family relationship closeness.
• Roshni Modhvadia who will discuss the Ada Lovelace Institute & The Alan Turing Institute’s Attitudes to AI datasets. These are two nationally representative surveys, the first conducted in 2022 and the second more recently in 2024. They explore the public’s attitudes to several varied uses of AI, from robotic care assistants to large language models. This talk will provide an overview of these datasets, some select findings, and offer methodological reflections on sampling, survey design, and how we understand representation in the context of quantitative research.  
• Mark Elliot who will cover a recently completed mixed methods project on the public perception of AI which combined the use of the Attitudes to AI dataset described in Roshni Modhvadia’s talk with a systematic review of research on this burgeoning topic. The critical importance of public trust in AI systems and organisations using AI is highlighted and the implications for public policy are discussed.

Each talk will be followed by a quick-fire question-and-answer section.

This is a free event. 

The speakers will provide recordings of their talks which will be available after the webinar through the NCRM website. You can subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when this goes live: newsletter. 

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Cost:

Free

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Region:

North West

Keywords:

Data Quality and Data Management , Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Digital Life, Technology Change, Attitudes to AI, AI, Artificial Intelligence

Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:

Data Quality and Data Management
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Longitudinal Data Analysis

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