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SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 2: Wendy Chun — Discriminating data
DESCRIPTION:University of Waterloo – Thursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 6 to 9 p.m. online in three parts | Register now \nHave you ever observed a divisive\, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background? \nIn her most recent book\, Discriminating Data (2021)\, Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \n\n6:00-7:00 p.m.\nData Jam\nIn this pre-conversation event\, co-organized with the qcollaborative\, participants will engage in a group design activity inspired by Wendy Chun’s book\, Discriminating Data. Limited space available. \n\n\n7:00-8:00 p.m.\nDiscriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun\nParticipants include Marcel O’Gorman (moderator) with respondents Brie Wiens and Queenie Wu. \n\n\n8:00-9:00 p.m.\n2D Social Mixer\nJoin in Gather Town for the “Data Jam Showcase” and a surprise jam room.
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