Events

DDI Fall Speaker Series, 6th September from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and DDI Fluencies Faculty Fellow Dr. Erikson studies highly complex political and […]

Presentation by Dr. Sean Cubitt, 25th September from 4:00- 5:30pm PST His research links film and media studies with ecocriticism, technological, aesthetic, economic and political history, and the media arts […]

Data Fluencies Speaker Series, 4th October from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Fallon Wilson & Jurnell Cockhren (Black Tech Futures Institute)  Dr. Fallon Wilson is the vice president of policy at the Multicultural Media […]

Presentation by Dr. Kate Henessey and PhD student Brett Gaylor, 1st November from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Kate is an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture […]

Presentation by Aaron Mendon- Plasek, 6th December from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Aaron is a historian of science and technology. His work examines how schemes of quantification, including their material, cultural, […]

Presentation by Victoria E. Thomas, 10th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Media and Public Engagement in the School of Communication. As an interdisciplinary […]

"We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" Presentation by Wendy H. Wong, 24th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Human rights are one of the major innovations of the […]

Presentation by Nick Vincent, 7th February from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Vincent received his PhD from Northwestern University's Technology and Social Behavior program (a joint degree in computer science and […]

"Social Media as a Failed Free Expression Experiment" Presentation by Peter Ives, 6th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT The talk will argue that “free speech” controversies are increasingly unresolvable not […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]