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SUMMARY:Kishonna Gray talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Title for Kishonna’s talk is her new book: Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/kishoonna-gray-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210303T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210303T133000
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SUMMARY:Sarah T. Roberts presents to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Judging Themselves: Facebook as Extrastate Sovereign (and Why We Should Worry). \nIn this brief and nascent talk (followed by lively collective discussion)\, Professor Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) will offer an analysis of what Facebook is _really_ up to with its Oversight Board\, and what the activation of that body reveals about Facebook’s vision of itself in the world. Spoiler alert: the vision is nothing short of a combination of soft power (Nye) _and_ extrastate sovereignty (Ong; Easterling)\, and _that_ is nothing short of ominous.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/sarah-t-roberts-presents-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210303T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210303T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20210113T004517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T004517Z
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SUMMARY:Monthly Institute Team Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/monthly-institute-team-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210224T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210224T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
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SUMMARY:Alberto Toscano talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory. He studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research\, University College Dublin and the University of Warwick\, from which he received his PhD in 2003. \nHe is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (2006)\, Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010)\, and (with Jeff Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute (2015). He edited The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics with Lorenzo Chiesa\, and has translated several works by Alain Badiou\, as well as Antonio Negri\, Furio Jesi and Franco Fortini. He is currently working on two book projects\, the first on tragedy as a political form\, the second on philosophy\, capitalism and ‘real abstraction’. He is also preparing two multi-volume edited collections\, a Handbook of Marxism (with Bev Skeggs and Sara Farris) and Alain Badiou: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Ray Brassier). \nHe has sat on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory since 2004\, and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/alberto-toscano-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210215T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
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SUMMARY:Reading Week
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URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/reading-week/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20210202T001557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210202T001631Z
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SUMMARY:Left and Right\, or Being who/where you are - Performances
DESCRIPTION:Performance Dates & Registration\nFeb 10\, 7pm EST\nFeb 11\, 7pm EST\nFeb 12\, 7pm EST\nFeb 13\, 12pm EST\nFeb 14\, 12pm EST \nPlease note: Participants will need Chrome and a laptop or desktop to be able to access the performance (no mobile or iPad access possible). For the best experience\, we also recommend the use of headphones throughout the performance. \nDescription\nIn this time of intense divisions\, a left partisan and a right partisan speaking with each other seems like an impossible conversation – or\, at least\, a conversation that is impossible to have meaningfully on certain so-called “hot-button” topics and complex realities\, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or immigration. \nThis devised\, interactive online multimedia performance stages scenes that feature such conversations … performed by both human actors and bots. The human and machinic actors play different characters that embody\, complicate\, and deconstruct different types of performative\, prescribed political identities on the left-right spectrum (approached with a US-focus but through a transnational lens). These political identities are shown to be not static or unalterable\, rather\, the result of relational\, performative processes that occur over time and with technology. Theatrically playing with(in) these processes\, Left and Right aims to call forth more capacious ways of being – and being political. \nPresented by Brown Arts Initiative. Free and open to the public. Registration required. \nCredits\nConcept & Directing: Ioana B. Jucan\nText: Patrick Elizalde\, Andra Jurj\, Marcela Mancino\, Fabiola Petri\, Ioana B. Jucan\, Melody Devries\nActors: Marcela Mancino\, Patrick Elizalde\, Andra Jurj\, Fabiola Petri\nDigital Design and Development: Tong Wu\, Nuntinee Tansrisakul & Yuguang Zhang\nTheatrical Design: Marcela Mancino\nBot Design: Roopa Vasudevan\nBot Concept: Roopa Vasudevan\, Anthony Burton\nChoreography: Adriana Barza\nSound Design: Peter Bussigel\nProduction Manager: Madeline Greenberg\nDramaturgy: Melody Devries\nPerformance Consultants: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Alex Juhasz\, and the Beyond Verification Team associated with the Digital Democracies Institute (SFU)
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/left-and-right-or-being-who-where-you-are-performance/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210210T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201214T232803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T012544Z
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SUMMARY:Alberto Toscano Reading Group 2
DESCRIPTION:More details tbd \nReading Group takes place February 3 and 10.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/alberto-toscano-reading-group-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210210T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210210T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201210T011627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T080016Z
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SUMMARY:André Brock talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech.  He writes on Western technoculture\, Black technoculture\, and digital media.  His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media\, videogames\,  weblogs\, and other digital media.  He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book\, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures\, was published with NYU Press in 2020  and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/andre-brock-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210203T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
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SUMMARY:Alberto Toscano Reading Group 1
DESCRIPTION:More details tbd \nGroup takes place February 3 and 17.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/alberto-toscano-reading-group-1/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210203T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210203T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20210113T004425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T004425Z
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SUMMARY:Monthly Institute Team Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/monthly-institute-team-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210127T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210127T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201210T011503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T040109Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Tomlinson talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Christine Tomlinson is a social science lecturer and researcher at the University of California\, Irvine and a research assistant with the Digital Democracies Institute. Christine’s work is primarily focused on video games and considers player experiences\, interests\, and backgrounds as well as hostilities both in gaming spaces and online cultures more broadly.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/christine-tomlinson-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210120T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201210T011401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T040120Z
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SUMMARY:Cierra Robson talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Cierra Robson is the Associate Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab at Princeton University where she guides research teams in partnership with community organizations to explore how data can be retooled for racial justice. Additionally\, Cierra is a doctoral student in the Sociology and Social Policy program at Harvard University where she is a Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Research Fellow in Poverty and Justice.  Broadly\, her research explores the ways in which technological advancements both reinforce and revolutionize racial inequality in the United States\, particularly within the criminal justice system.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/cierra-robson-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210113T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201210T011248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T040135Z
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SUMMARY:Maite Taboada talks to the Institute on Natural Language Processing to manage harmful content online
DESCRIPTION:Maite Taboada is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at SFU. Her research combines discourse analysis and computational linguistics\, with an emphasis on discourse relations and sentiment analysis. Current work focuses on the analysis of online comments\, drawing insights from corpus linguistics\, computational linguistics and big data. Other projects include a study of fake news online and the Gender Gap Tracker. She is the director of the Discourse Processing Lab at SFU.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/maite-taboada-talks-to-the-lab/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210108T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210108T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20210713T020914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T020914Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy speaks on panel at MLA Convention 2021
DESCRIPTION:Panel 294 – Data Privacy Now: A Public Conversation about Private Information\nDuring the COVID-19 global pandemic\, institutions have turned to technology-driven solutions to alleviate public health risk. From the classroom to committee meetings\, “remote” work and school required the rapid introduction of new technologies with little time to consider issues of data privacy for ourselves or our students. This wide-ranging moderated discussion considers what we should know about data privacy in the light of this recent online transition. \n\nPresider\n\n\nLisa Marie Rhody \n\nGraduate Center\, City U of New York\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\nSafiya Umoja Noble \n\nU of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n\nWendy Chun \n\nSimon Fraser U\n\n\n\n\nJacqueline D. Wernimont \n\nDartmouth C
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-speaks-on-panel-at-mla-convention-2021/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210107T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210107T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20210713T020655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T021125Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy presides on panel at MLA Convention 2021
DESCRIPTION:Panel 106 – Literary Intelligence\, Artificial Learning: Language\, Media\, and Machines\nAI is changing the way we inhabit the world\, but we cannot understand how without exploring the intersection of computation with language and culture. Experts working on the languages\, histories\, and materialities of AI consider the language and media through which we understand our machines and through which they understand us. \nPresider\nWendy Chun\nSimon Fraser U \nSpeakers\nEvan Donahue\nDuke U\nRita Raley\nU of California\, Santa Barbara\nThéo Lepage-Richer\nBrown U\nColin Milburn\nU of California\, Davis\nJennifer Rhee\nVirginia Commonwealth U
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-presides-on-panel-at-mla-convention-2021/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201218T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201218T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201112T011247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T011247Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting Street Podcast: Conversations in the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Wendy is being interviewed for the Meeting Street Podcast\, Two episodes have been published thus far and the podcast presents a wonderful opportunity for Wendy to talk about the work the Institute is doing\, and to present an informed discussion of digital democracies\, responsible AI\, and the humanities contribution to work on digital cultures and practices. The larger aim of the podcast is to explore topics of vital societal interest through conversations with scholars and writers whose voices have helped define issues and shape debates. Through the show\, we’re hoping to present ideas and issues in such a way that they are appealing to the general public as well as other academics. The show is getting significant attention\, and a transcript of the second episode is being published by the Chronicle.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/meeting-street-podcast-conversations-in-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201209T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201007T220014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T233219Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Group - Black and Indigenous Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance\nLed by Karrmen Crey and Adjua Akinwumi.\nIf you are interested in joining the reading group\, contact Dr. Karrmen Crey at kcrey@sfu.ca with a very brief (one or two sentence) explanation of why you would like to join the group by Friday\, September 25th. Participants must be able to attend all meetings. You will receive an email to confirm your spot in the group.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/reading-group-black-and-indigenous-bodies-4/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201207T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20210708T015420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T021028Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy speaks at the CIGI - Special Round Table Discussion: Digital Platform Governance
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for International Governance Innovations’s Global Platform Governance Network and the McGill Centre for Media\, Technology and Democracy are pleased to invite you to a special virtual round table discussion on digital platform governance on December 7\, 2020\, from 12 to 3 p.m. (EST\, UTC-5). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernments around the world continue to grapple with how best to safeguard their citizens’ privacy\, safety and security online\, while maintaining the economic and social benefits of our unprecedented ability to connect. This tension has been exacerbated by the current COVID-19 environment\, as worldwide lockdowns have increased our collective reliance on the online world for our work\, education and social interactions. This situation has\, however\, also revealed an exponential growth in the negative aspects of digital platforms\, including the spread of dis/misinformation and hate speech\, increased risks to privacy and personal security\, the concentration of market power among a few private companies\, and the continued erosion of local newsrooms and democratic norms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada has signalled its commitment to “create new regulations for social media platforms\, starting with a requirement that all platforms remove illegal content\, including hate speech.” As the federal government prepares legislation to address this commitment\, it can benefit from the experiences of its allies and external experts who are tackling these same challenges. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe goal of this meeting is to foster an honest\, open conversation between a small group of experts and senior government representatives at a strategic moment of government decision making. Through three 50-minute deliberative dialogues\, the group will work collectively through key questions facing the government as it moves toward a legislative package regulating digital platforms: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat information should be included in a mandatory transparency requirement for platforms?\nHow should disputes about Canadian content moderation on digital platforms be adjudicated?\nWhat powers should be given to a new regulator\, and how should this regulator be structured?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are pleased to welcome the minister of Canadian heritage\, The Honourable Steven Guilbeault\, and parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice and attorney general of Canada\, Arif Virani\, to join the round table discussion. The session will be supported by leading Canadian and international experts\, who will join in conversation with government experts and decision makers to examine the issues underlying each question and come to a collective position. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be held under CIGI Rule\, a variation of the Chatham House Rule.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-speaks-at-the-cigi-special-round-table-discussion-digital-platform-governance/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201203T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201204T012715Z
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SUMMARY:UC Irvine: Michael and Stacy Koehn Public Lecture in Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition \nOriginally planned for March 2020\, but canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak\, UCI Critical Theory is proud to now present this event virtually.  \nWhat does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection?  Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to “pattern recognition\,” this talk unpacks the logic and politics of recognition at the core of systems designed to automatically identify and classify users. It argues for the centrality of the humanities in understanding how we have become characters in a drama called “Big Data.”
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/uc-irvine-michael-and-stacy-koehn-public-lecture-in-critical-theory/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201202T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201202T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201113T002951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T002951Z
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SUMMARY:Ganaele Langlois speak to the Lab
DESCRIPTION:Ganaele will be presenting on Research Persona methods
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ganaele-langlois-speak-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201118T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201118T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201008T011930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T012324Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Group - Black and Indigenous Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance\nIf you are interested in joining the reading group\, contact Dr. Karrmen Crey at kcrey@sfu.ca with a very brief (one or two sentence) explanation of why you would like to join the group by Friday\, September 25th. Participants must be able to attend all meetings. You will receive an email to confirm your spot in the group.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/reading-group-black-and-indigenous-bodies-3/
LOCATION:By zoom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201117T053000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201117T070000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201009T012354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201010T020257Z
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SUMMARY:Canadian Science Policy Conference 2020
DESCRIPTION:Due to the unprecedented circumstances generated by the COVID-19 pandemic\, the 12th\nCanadian Science Policy Conference\, CSPC 2020\, will be held completely online! The conference will be held virtually through the week of November 16th – 20th\, 2020. \nIn the time of social distancing and with abundance of caution\, we are excited to bring this year’s conference right to your offices and homes! CSPC has a rich history of hosting exciting in-person conferences. Expect no less from the virtual conference experience! \nWhat to expect from a virtual conference: \nCSPC 2020 will feature a week-long variety of engaging and informative online sessions including panel discussions\, workshops\, live interviews\, online networking opportunities\, and even virtual exhibitions. Registered participants will have the opportunity to watch sessions live and on-demand. Live sessions will be held throughout the day\, such that participants across time zones will be able to attend them. Lower registration fees will permit much bigger and geographically diverse participation\, including many from around the globe. We look forward to bringing the Canadian and global science and innovation policy communities together in these pivotal times and continue the crucial and insightful conversation on the world post-pandemic. \nIn order to accommodate this new conference format and acknowledging that individuals and organizations have been adapting to new realities\, the panel proposal submission deadline\,\nas well as the individual short-talks submission deadline has been extended further by 1 month\, to Friday\, June 12th\, 2020. Please review the revised criteria for panel proposal submissions and access the submission forms by clicking on the link below.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/canadian-science-policy-conference-2020/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201030T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201031T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201009T011955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201010T022201Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop @ Cornell Tech - Understanding and Combating Online Manipulation: Setting an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Understanding & Combating Online Manipulation: Setting an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda  \nPublic concern is coalescing around the problem of online influence—especially\, the ability of data collectors to use information about individuals to influence their decision-making and shape their behaviors. Once confined to the realm of commercial advertising\, post 2016\, these worries have extended to the political sphere\, where campaigns increasingly engage in sophisticated voter profiling and microtargeting\, using information about voters to frame political pitches and appeals. Media manipulation and the problem of so-called “fake news”\, for example\, have attracted enormous attention in academic research from the social sciences to technical fields\, such as machine learning\, where efforts are underway to develop tools for distinguishing fake from genuine news. \nWorkshop Overview \nThis workshop takes up pressing questions about processes and mechanisms characterizing some of the stages that precede the altered behaviors and the impacts of targeting and fake news. It will focus on the nature of the efforts to influence\, manipulate\, and shape human thinking and human behavior\, raising and investigating critical questions that require conceptual\, ethical\, empirical\, technical\, and policy attention. For example: \n\n\nEthical/Philosophical: What distinguishes persuasive appeals from manipulative ones? How are targeting technologies related to other worrying practices\, such as “dark patterns”? Given the information collection required for individual targeting\, how are these concerns related to concerns about privacy? What (if any) are the harms of online targeting and manipulation? Should they be weighed against certain goods? Are the differences between “nudging\,” persuasive technologies\, and recent manipulative practices ethical in nature? \n\n\n\n\nSocial Science: How effective are targeting technologies? On average\, how well do people understand the ways they are being targeted? Does awareness of targeting mitigate its effects? How do these issues relate to prior art\, including “nudging” and “persuasive technologies”? \n\n\n\n\nTechnical: What mechanisms and systems enable\, deliver\, and enhance manipulative practices? What mechanisms can be brought to bear to detect the pipeline of manipulative practices? What mechanisms exist (or could be developed) for inducing accountability in both collaborative and adversarial settings? \n\n\n\n\nPolicy/Regulation: How could policymakers address these concerns? Should policies intervene ex ante or ex post? Are new regulations needed to constrain certain targeting practices\, and if so\, how would they interact with free speech considerations? What successes and failures have policymakers encountered when responding to related issues of illegitimate influence in other contexts in the past? \n\n\nThis event brings together leading scholars working on diverse dimensions of the problem in computer and information sciences\, social sciences\, humanities\, law\, and policy\, to coordinate and cohere these efforts\, mapping an interdisciplinary research agenda that encourages\, and against which to benchmark\, further progress. \nThe workshop will take place via Zoom. We envision it as the first of two events; we will convene an in-person workshop at Cornell Tech in New York City when conditions allow.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/workshop-nyu-understanding-and-combating-online-manipulation-setting-an-interdisciplinary-research-agenda/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201029T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201029T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T102650
CREATED:20201020T074242Z
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SUMMARY:The 2020 US Election\, A View from Canada
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jaime Lee Kirtz speaks at this panel: \nWondering how to make sense of this historic American presidential election? You’re not alone. Join us for a panel featuring historians\, political scientists\, and media experts as they weigh in on the significance of the 2020 election for the United States\, Canada\, and the world. Panelists will discuss the current state of American politics and society\, where the 2020 election fits into the long history of American politics\, and answer audience questions. \nFeaturing: \nWendell Nii Laryea Adjetey\, Historian\, McGill University\nRegina Bateson\, Political Scientist\, University of Ottawa\nJason Opal\, Historian\, McGill University\nJaime Lee Kirtz\, Digital Democracies Institute\, Simon Fraser University \nModerated by: \nMelissa J. Gismondi\, Writer & Journalist\, University of Toronto\nShira Lurie\, Historian\, University of Toronto
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/the-2020-us-election-a-view-from-canada/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Reading Group - Black and Indigenous Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance\nLed by Karrmen Crey and Adjua Akinwumi.\nIf you are interested in joining the reading group\, contact Dr. Karrmen Crey at kcrey@sfu.ca with a very brief (one or two sentence) explanation of why you would like to join the group by Friday\, September 25th. Participants must be able to attend all meetings. You will receive an email to confirm your spot in the group.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/reading-group-black-and-indigenous-bodies-2/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:SSRC Workshop - Keynote Event
DESCRIPTION:Disinformation\, Authenticity\, and Democratic Participation\n\n\n\n\nOVERVIEW \n\n\nThe viral spread of false\, misleading\, and inaccurate information on topics from Covid-19 to racial justice threaten our social fabric and democracy worldwide. \nWith November’s elections looming\, and as fraught questions about “truth\,” “fact\,” and “accuracy” are debated\, BHS and the Social Science Research Council turn to the role authenticity plays as it relates to trust in politicians and institutions. Does an aura of authenticity enable misinformation? Are lies more palatable when generated by an ‘authentic’ source? Join three experts as they dig into identity\, belonging\, political participation and more: Sarah Banet-Weiser\, London School of Economics professor and author of Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture; sociologist Francesca Tripodi of the University of North Carolina\, whose expert testimony before the Senate Judiciary last year focused on censorship\, technology and public discourse; and Andre Brock\, associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures. The program is moderated by Heidi Tworek\, Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia\, author of the book News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications\, 1900-1945\, and advisor to governments around the world on how to address hate speech and disinformation. \nRegister here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ssrc-workshop-keynote-event/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:SSRC Workshop - Beyond Disinformation: Authenticity and Trust in the Online World
DESCRIPTION:Invite only. \nThe viral spread of false\, misleading\, and inaccurate information threatens democracy globally. Originally lauded as inherently democratic\, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are now condemned as negligent outlets answerable for “post-truth” politics. An often unspoken assumption is that providing correct information will solve broader problems. Tellingly\, however\, the 2016 US presidential election was described both as “the authenticity election” and as normalizing “fake news”: the more certain politicians lie\, the more authentic they appear. Central to the study of mis- and disinformation are thus questions of how and under what circumstances—social\, cultural\, historical\, and technical—information is deemed “truthful\,” “factual\,” or “authentic\,” when the concepts are related but not interchangeable. What is the role of authenticity in understanding why mis- and disinformation become accepted or meaningful for people? How does authenticity relate to other key concepts\, such as truth\, fact\, and accuracy? What other key words or concepts are necessary\, and yet perhaps undertheorized\, in the study of information disorder and democracy? \nThis workshop invites responses that interrogate the centrality of authenticity to the viral spread of mis- and disinformation\, as well as the relationship of authenticity to other key concepts such as “truth\,” “fact\,” “trust\,” and/or “veracity.” We encourage responses that take on one or more of these key words or phrases (or others) and investigate their role in propagating or countering mis- and disinformation. \nThis research development workshop is convened by the Social Science Research Council’s Media & Democracy program and the Digital Democracies Group (DDG) at Simon Fraser University\, established through Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media. The goal of the workshop is to catalyze and develop rigorous research and public-facing scholarship. The workshop will provide participants an opportunity to give and receive in-depth feedback from their peers on in-progress research projects and to connect with others who work on similar topics. \nWe particularly encourage applications from emerging and underrepresented scholars; early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. We welcome applications from all relevant social science and humanities fields\, including political science\, history\, anthropology\, sociology\, STS and media studies\, communication\, and journalism\, as well as computer science\, data science\, informatics\, and related fields. Applications with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work—that seek to answer questions that can’t be solved from the perspective of one discipline alone—are especially welcome. \nApplications are due on September 9\, 2020. \nParticipants will be expected to participate in a two-day virtual workshop (for approximately four hours or less each day) tentatively scheduled for October 22–23\, 2020. Each participant will prepare an essay of approximately 1000 words related to the workshop themes\, which will be circulated to peers in advance of the meeting. During the meeting\, participants will offer substantive feedback to their peers with the goal of developing a longer essay or project for public circulation. \nWorkshop Themes\nWe welcome proposals for research that will foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the role of authenticity\, trust\, and authentication in the spread and control of false information online. Research proposals should consider: \n\nHow you might define authenticity\nHow you propose to study authenticity\nWhy and how authenticity matters to understanding mis- and disinformation\nThe relationship of authenticity to other key concepts such as “truth\,” “fact\,” “trust\,” and/or “veracity” (or others you might suggest)\n\nThis research workshop is intended to generate a robust discussion among participants\, foster possible collaborative research projects\, and inform scholarly discussions about authenticity\, trust\, and verification as possible counters to mis- and disinformation. With an intentionally cross-disciplinary approach\, we imagine that a data scientist and cultural theorist might debate the meaning of “authentication” from technical and social perspectives. A historian might examine shifting definitions of truthful political rhetoric over time in conversation with journalists and political scientists. A psychologist and an anthropologist might compare and contrast their disciplines’ understandings of trust. \nWhat questions about authenticity might your study not address? What are the limitations of your approach? Applicants are encouraged to discuss the limits of their disciplinary approach in understanding authenticity—what questions of authenticity can your discipline not answer alone? How might quantitative and qualitative methods be jointly deployed to enhance our understanding of who the concept of authenticity is used in support of and who it is weaponized against? How is it deployed to counter misinformation? How does authenticity work in tandem with or counter to trust\, fact\, authority\, and authorship?
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ssrc-workshop-beyond-disinformation-authenticity-and-trust-in-the-online-world/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:UAAC / AAUC: Book Launch & Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:UAAC / AAUC: Book Launch & Roundtable\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, October 16 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (PDT) | Zoom | FREE (link sent with registration)\nPlease check back HERE for the Zoom link \nThe Universities Art Association of Canada and the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts invite you to attend a virtual book launch and roundtable for two new publications\, The Bomb in the Wilderness by John O’Brian (UBC Press\, 2020) and Through Post-Atomic Eyes\, edited by Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian (MQUP\, 2020). \nPhotography and contemporary art contribute significantly to shaping public perceptions of nuclear events\, and offer a provocative lens through which to comprehend the by-products of the atomic age. \nJoin us for a roundtable conversation on a wide-ranging set of topics\, from Canada’s nuclear footprint to weapons proliferation and climate change. \nSpeakers: John O’Brian\, Claudette Lauzon\, Lindsey A. Freeman\, and Erin Siddall. \nThe event will include a live Q+A moderated by Svitlana Matviyenko.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/uaac-aauc-book-launch-roundtable/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:The Future of the Humanities @ Google
DESCRIPTION:Wendy is invited to this closed conference \nThis series of round table discussions builds on Google’s history of engagement with academia\, a history that started with the company’s founders. We sense a critical moment for modern democracy and for the humanist values at the core of our business. Although Google is a technology company\, many of the biggest challenges we face are non-technical\, motivating this outreach to learn from and collaborate with academic leaders in the Humanities.\n \nThe goal of these working sessions is to bring academics into conversation with researchers and practitioners at Google to better understand the increasingly complex landscape at the intersection of ethics\, privacy\, identity\, and technology. By building a venue for conversation across institutional boundaries\, we hope to find points of connection that will enable us to make change together. 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/the-future-of-the-humanities-google/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:DDI Presentation - DW Kamish
DESCRIPTION:DW will be presenting on his work to the team. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://sfu.zoom.us/j/94666559773?pwd=YjRXeGN0eHVjZWd1bkJyblY5MlExUT09\n\nMeeting ID: 946 6655 9773\nPassword: 595221
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-presentation-dw-kamish/
LOCATION:By zoom
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