Nanna Bonde Thylstrup speaks to the Institute

By zoom

The politics of data (re)use  Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor in Digital Media and Communication at Copenhagen Business School. Her research is concerned with the politics of digital infrastructures and her current interests include the ethics of data reuse, content moderation and digital sustainability. She is the author of The Politics of Mass Digitization, published with MIT […]

Kate Crawford talks to the Institute

Online

Prof. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She holds the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, is a senior principal researcher at MSR, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. Her […]

Spry Memorial Lecture – Changing the Spectrum: Race, media and building democracy in Canada.

Online

The Spry Memorial Lecture has a long history of tackling key issues facing Canadian media and its role in the national conversation. For the 2021 event, Spry joins with Media Democracy Days and the Digital Democracies Institute to bring together leading figures in Canadian media in conversation about race, media and building democracy in Canada. Our panelists […]

EDI in AI Workshop

After several exceptional months have passed, we started replanning for the EDI in AI workshop in consultation with the Quebec government: Hoping for a COVID19 recession by early next year, we aim to hold the EDI in AI workshop on 26th and 27th of April 2021 in Montreal. The aim of this workshop activity is to […]

Anna Engelhardt & Niels Ten Oever talk to the Institute

By zoom

Niels ten Oever: The quantum state of topological infrastructure reconfigurations: the case of 5G Niels is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance’-project at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a research fellow with the Centre for Internet and Human […]

Jodi Byrd presents to the Institute

By zoom

Indigenomicon. Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Associate Professor of English and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Byrd is the author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011) […]

Wendy is Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago – Lecture 1

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Since 2003, the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been held by some of the world’s most renowned scholars. The CI Professor is in residence at the University of Chicago for an academic quarter, where he or she teaches a graduate seminar and offers two public lectures. In Spring 2021 we are proud to welcome Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon […]

Kavita Philip talks to the Lab

Online

Kavita Philip is President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures as Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures. She was previously Professor of History & Informatics (by courtesy) at UC Irvine. She is author of Civilizing Natures (Rutgers University Press), and co-editor of five volumes curating interdisciplinary work in radical history, political science, art, activism, gender, […]