Wendy presides on panel at MLA Convention 2021

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Panel 106 - Literary Intelligence, Artificial Learning: Language, Media, and Machines AI 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 […]

Wendy speaks on panel at MLA Convention 2021

Panel 294 - Data Privacy Now: A Public Conversation about Private Information During 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 […]

Maite Taboada talks to the Institute on Natural Language Processing to manage harmful content online

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 […]

Cierra Robson talks to the Institute

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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 […]

Christine Tomlinson talks to the Institute

By zoom

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.

André Brock talks to the Institute

By zoom

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 […]

Left and Right, or Being who/where you are – Performances

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Performance Dates & Registration Feb 10, 7pm EST Feb 11, 7pm EST Feb 12, 7pm EST Feb 13, 12pm EST Feb 14, 12pm EST 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 […]

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Alberto Toscano talks to the Institute

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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. He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy […]