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. […]
AI and Disinformation: State-Aligned Information Operations and the Distortion of the Public Sphere Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is a journalist, scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on the intersection of […]
University of Waterloo - Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6 to 9 p.m. online in three parts | Register now Have you ever observed a divisive, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about […]
COVID-19 has highlighted the extent to which researchers who publicly share their expertise and the results of research face harassment and personal threats. The intimidation of experts has recently garnered […]
Discriminating Data with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Register for Zoom link here! […]
Seda is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, and an affiliate at the COSIC Group […]
Discriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun Register for the event here. In Discriminating Data (MIT Press, 2021), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal — not […]