Join Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy Research Director, Sonja Solomun for a discussion with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun about her newly published book Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the […]
Dr Dara Kelly is from the Leq’á:mel First Nation, part of the Stó:lō Coast Salish. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Business at the Beedie School of Business, SFU. […]
DSI & DISCO Network Book Talk | "Discriminating Data" with Wendy Chun in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura Register for the event here. In "Discriminating Data," Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals […]
In her 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 […]
What does feminist data science look like? What is feminist data science? How is feminist thinking being incorporated into data-driven work? And how are scholars in the humanities and social […]
Sheelagh Carpendale from Simon Fraser University's School of Computing Science presents to the DDI. Her research interests include: information visualization, interaction design, large display interaction, visual analytics, personal visualization, human […]
Taming Big Tech: Exploring the Alternatives - How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in Canada Wendy Chun in conversation with Andrew Clement. Wendy Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair […]
In Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she […]
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues […]
Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of, and live with, our computational social condition today. Considering sociocultural, aesthetic, politicoeconomic, […]
Susan Schuppli, Goldsmiths University of London, is an artist-researcher and writer. She is currently Director & Reader of the Centre for Research Architecture. Through investigative processes that involve an engagement […]
Join McMaster University for a public talk (on Zoom) by Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun entitled "The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective, productive, and necessary". Dr. […]