This was originally posted by by Geert Lovink on the Institute of Network Cultures blog on February 25, 2022. I began this diary two months ago when our everyday life […]
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The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) hosted a town hall to discuss the recent RSC Task Force on Covid-19 policy briefing: “Protecting Expert Advice for the Public: Promoting Safety and
Dr. Timnit Gebru visited the Digital Democracies Institute and shared with us some context and direction for the newly established Distributed AI Research Institute, of which she is the founder
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Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein joined us at the Digital Democracies Institute to close our 2021 fall speaker series. They came to share some highlights from their co-authored open source
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Dr. Dara Kelly from the SFU Beedie School of Business recently visited the Digital Democracies Institute to discuss her work on Indigenous economies. Her approach is informed by time spent
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As the convener of the new DDI research stream Indigenous Epistemologies, Dr. Karrmen Crey presented to the team some of the themes and direction that will shape the research. The
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Alissa Antle visited the Digital Democracies Institute to discuss her work that has developed new research methods concerning biowearable devices and youth. This method for “participatory design ethics” emerged from
Iginio Gagliardone presented to the Institute as part of our fall research series, bringing questions of conspiracy, context and agency that arose in his latest co-authored article in Social Media
Zack visited the Digital Democracies Institute to discuss “three remarkable things at root in Wikipedia: conflict consensus and creativity” and how they might be worth revisiting for discussions of online
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On September 29, Grace Kyungwon Hong (UCLA), Lisa Nakamura (UMich) and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (SFU) engaged in a panel discussion on anti-Asian sentiment before Covid-19. Before the event, Lisa
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