Streaming to transgress: the racial politics of reactionary YouTubers and their audiences Cindy Ma is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute doing work on the discourse of white […]

Sean Cubitt is a Professor of Screen Studies, Culture and Communication, at the University of Melbourne. His research links film and media studies with ecocriticism, technological, aesthetic, economic and political […]

Eleanor Drage is a Christina Gaw Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies and a member of the Gender & Technology Research Project team at the University of […]

Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Goldsmiths London. With Usman Haque, he is co-author of 'Urban Versioning System v1.0' (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, of […]

Debora Nozza, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bocconi University and member of an NLP group in Milan, will be joining us for an in-person presentation with a Q & A. […]

Members of the Digital Democracies Institute will attend a one-day retreat at SFU downtown from 10-4. More details TBD.

Schedule is currently bring drafted.

Dr. Moya Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on Black women’s use of digital media to promote social justice as acts […]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, SFU Honorary Degree recipient and renowned journalist Maria Ressa on how democracy dies by a thousand cuts. Renowned investigative journalist Maria Ressa received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize […]

Charlton McIlwain - Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development; Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Media, Culture, and Communication Charlton McIlwain's recent work focuses on the intersections of race, […]

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University, who leads the Digital Democracies Institute, will be in conversation with respondents Alexander R. Galloway, Hannah Turner,​​​​​​​ and Evelyn Wan, moderated […]

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun University of Toronto Critical Digital Humanities Initiative In-Person: Saturday, October 1 Campbell Conference Facility 5:00-6:30 pm EST Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in […]