Presentation by Jon Corbett, 13th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Corbett received his BFA at the University of Alberta, and MFA and Ph.D., at UBC Okanagan. During his studies, he developed his career as an application developer, focussing on centralized and de-centralized large-scale data repository and logistics web portals for UPS. Through his Ph.D., […]
Presentation by Sheelagh Carpendale, 3rd April from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Carpendale is a professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, where she holds an NSERC/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She was previously a professor at University of Calgary, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/AITF/SMART […]
Presentation by Adel Iskandar, 1st May from 12:30- 1:30pm PST. Dr. Iskandar presented a talk at the institute titled, "Revolution By Any Memes: Innovation and Irrevance in Digital Egypt". He is the Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including […]
Presentation by Marisa Parham, 5th June from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Parham is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, where as P.I. she directs the African American Digital and Experimental Humanities initiative (AADHUM) and NarraSpace, an immersive storytelling lab focused on BIPoc experiences. She is also associate […]
Presentation by Parmit Chilana, 3rd July from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Chilana is Associate Professor and Ebco-Eppich Research Chair at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. She co-directs the Interactive Experiences Lab at SFU. Her main area of research is in human-computer interaction (HCI), particularly, focusing on inventing and deploying user-centered software […]
Presentation by Esther Weltevrede, 7th August from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Esther Weltevrede is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture in the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores the various research affordances of digital media, with a specific interest in conceptual and methodological innovations in the study of mobile […]
Presentation by Eric Borra, 8th August from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Erik Borra is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he specializes in the intersecting fields of Artificial Intelligence, Platform Studies, and Journalism. He previously served as the Technical Director at the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), one of Europe's leading schools for internet […]
Presentation by Jason Lewis, 4th September from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, where he conducts research/creation projects exploring computation as a creative and cultural material. Lewis is deeply committed to developing intriguing new forms of expression by working […]
Remediating the Soil: Grounding Elemental Media in the Russo-Ukrainian War Within a year of Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine’s Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research assessed that at least 10.5 million hectares, or a quarter, of the country’s agricultural land had been degraded by the war. Subjected to damage from bombs […]
Presentation by Kathleen Creel, 27th November from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr Creel is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, cross appointed between the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She was the inaugral Embedded EthiCS Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Her current research explores the moral, political, and epistemic implications of […]
You are invited to join the inaugural session of the Digital Democracies Speaker Spring Speaker Series, featuring Brooke Erin Duffy (Cornell University). The Visibility Bind: Platform Labor, Precarity, and Resistance in the Creator Economy In the aftermath of the global pandemic, Big Tech companies have touted the Creator Economy as an Entrepreneurial Promised Land for […]
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 […]