Digital (Im)materialities is a student-run conference organized by the first-year MA Media Studies cohort at Concordia University in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. As the pandemic continues to rage, we approach one year of conducting much of our lives: personal, professional, academic, online. This transition has proven in turns frustrating, alienating, and humorous but, more saliently, it has highlighted […]
Jutta Treviranus is the Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and professor at OCAD University in Toronto http://inclusivedesign.ca, formerly the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. The IDRC conducts proactive research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute a multi-university regional […]
Wendy Chun moderates a panel at ICA on How Conspiracies Work: National and International Approaches to Trust, Mistrust, and Authenticity Chairs Javier Ruiz Soler, Simon Fraser U, CANADA Moderator Wendy Chun, Simon Fraser U, CANADA Participants Beyond Verification: Authenticity and Mis/Disinformation Javier Ruiz Soler, Simon Fraser U, CANADA Locating COVID-19 Conspiracies in South Africa and […]
Wendy gave the morning plenary for the CSDH at Congress 2021, titled "Discriminating Data + SFU's Digital Democracy Institute"
Please note the earlier start time of 9am PST for this talk. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). […]
The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.
Javier Ruiz-Soler took part in the CIGI's Social Hour on Deplatforming Social Media
Conspiratorialism as Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance: From the GameStop Hunger Games to the Capitol Hill Jamboree We approach contemporary reactionary conspiratorialism as a dangerous form of play that emerges from gamified neoliberal financialization. Our examples are (1) the siege of the US Capitol of January 6 by those loyal to outgoing president […]
Wendy gives the keynote on Facing Recognition – Talk and Discussion at the Other(ing) Sensing. Practices, Politics and Ethics of Sensitive Media - Conference by the research group "SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media" at the University of Potsdam. What does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection? Tracing […]
This part-time, five-day course offers foundational Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data science concepts that are applicable in the humanities and social sciences. Offered by SFU's Digital Democracies Institute and SFU’s Big Data Initiative, this course will have you examine best practices to critically evaluate and mitigate unwanted bias from sources such as data, algorithms […]
The implicit feudalism of online communities An “implicit feudalism” informs the available options for community management on the dominant platforms for online communities. It is a pattern that grants user-administrators absolutist reign over their fiefdoms, with competition among them as the primary mechanism for quality control, typically under rules set by platform companies. Implicit feudalism […]
Aleena Leng An Chia is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication specializing in the ethnography of gaming cultures. Her research investigates practices at the margins of the digital and analogue, and in the interstices between work and play. Her work examines gaming's boundary work as structuring categories in post-Fordism, as achievement systems in player communities, […]