Understanding & Combating Online Manipulation: Setting an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda  Public 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 […]

Due to the unprecedented circumstances generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 12th Canadian Science Policy Conference, CSPC 2020, will be held completely online! The conference will be held virtually through the week of November 16th - 20th, 2020. In the time of social distancing and with abundance of caution, we are excited to bring this year’s […]

Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance If 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 […]

Ganaele will be presenting on Research Persona methods

Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition Originally planned for March 2020, but canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, UCI Critical Theory is proud to now present this event virtually.  What does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection?  Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to […]

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). Governments around the world continue to grapple with how best to safeguard […]

Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance Led by Karrmen Crey and Adjua Akinwumi. If 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]