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Digital Democracies Institute Speaker Series – Reem Hilu

You are invited to join the third session of the Digital Democracies Speaker Spring Speaker Series, featuring Reem Hilu (Washington University in St.Luis). The Intimate Life of Computers: A Feminist Perspective on the History of Home Computing The Intimate Life of Computers offers a feminist intervention in the history of personal computing by discussing the influence […]

Bo Ruberg – How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games

Abstract: Today more than ever, we need the power to build new worlds. Video games are exceptional tools for worldbuilding because every video game itself is a world. Yet, in video games and other media forms, worldbuilding is still commonly understood as an expression of storytelling. A queer reading of video games shows us that worldbuilding […]

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Digital Democracies Institute Speaker Series – Adrian Ivakhiv

DDI 7460 - TASC 2, SFU, Burnaby

We invite you to attend the second session of the Digital Democracies Speaker Spring Series featuring Adrian Ivakhiv (Simon Fraser University).  Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder: On Recent Elections, Current Wars, and Climate Disasters to Come Bio: Born to World War Two refugee parents from Ukraine, Adrian Ivakhiv grew up in Toronto, Canada. From […]