Title for Kishonna's talk is her new book: Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming

Performance Dates & Registration March 13 - tickets and registration here Please 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. Description In this time of intense […]

Wendy will be presenting to Ariella Azoulay & Bonnie Honig's class on Modern Culture & Media on Terranova and Ahmed at Brown. Closed to class members only.

The Society’s annual conference provides a forum for scholars and teachers of film and media studies to present and hear new research; to provide a supportive environment for networking, mentoring, and collaboration among scholars otherwise separated by distance, language, or disciplinary boundaries; and to promote the field of cinema and media studies among its practitioners, […]

Ani Maitra is associate professor of Film and Media Studies at Colgate University. His teaching and research interests span the fields of postcolonial and diaspora media cultures and gender and sexuality studies. His essays have appeared in edited volumes and journals like Camera Obscura, Continuum, differences, Film Quarterly, Jindal Global Law Review and World Records. […]

Wendy will be presenting on 'Roadblocks as Opportunities: Working Across Disciplines to Counter Polarization and Mis-Information' Wendy Hui Kyong Chun will join CAHI’s Distinguished Scholar series. Her work in Critical Data Studies is timely and crucial: she pushes us to heed the power of algorithms and big data in fostering discrimination and misinformation, and offers […]

Environmental Machines, Datified Earths The presentation will depart from the method of Geocinema, which is to examine infrastructures of earth-sensing data as forms of cinema. Drawing on their recent fieldwork on the Digital Belt and Road Initiative in China and their subsequent documentary, Making of Earths (2020), Solveig Suess and Asia Bazdyrieva will speak on […]

Wendy will be presenting a keynote at the conference entitled "Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition" What 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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Wendy will be presenting a keynote at the conference on “How Has Artificial Intelligence Challenged the Boundaries of Humanistic Thinking,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfH-__c5Lr0