The SFU - Korea University Symposium is taking place on February 8 from 12:00-5:00 PST. This event is in partnership with The Center for ICT and Society, Korea University, the Transnational Culture and Digital Technology Lab, SFU & The Digital Democracies Institute, SFU.    This event takes place in person at the DDI, with keynote speaker Prof. […]

Fenwick McKelvey (Concordia University) will be joining the DDI in person for a presentation, as part of the Spring Speaker Series. "You Played Yourself: The Origins of World Politics as Computer Game" In 1959, political scientist Oliver Benson created the first computer simulation of world politics. Written to run in the drum of an IBM […]

Joan Donovan from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy will present on their new book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. This presentation is part of the Data Fluencies Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California and the […]

KEYNOTE: How to Sense the Future: Global Climate Change and Media Edu-cologies - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Amy Harris Global climate change has been predicted for at least a century, and yet little has been changed in response. This inaction has revealed the importance and inadequacy of knowledge: at first, many scientists and activists […]

Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Before joining the faculty at Simon Fraser, she was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University and did her doctoral work in NYU's Philosophy Department. She also holds a J.D. from the Law […]

Digital Policy Rounds: Mis/disinformation and the question of authenticity Thursday, March 16 from 9 am - 10 am PST Register here ABOUT THE EVENT While mis- and dis-information is primarily understood in terms of its facticity, or lack thereof, the very circulation of information such as news stories is tied to the cultural contexts in […]

Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor, and speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education. His writings have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired Magazine, the Chronicle of […]

This talk offers some afterthoughts on Jihoon Kim's recent book Documentary's Expanded Fields in relation to his current book project entitled Crisis Media: Expansion of Media in the Precarious 21st Century. This project develops the concept of 'crisis media' as an array of media practices and formations that function as both to cause and to […]

Dr. Garth Davies is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. His current work involves developing a database for evaluating programs for countering violent extremism; the social psychology of radicalization; and the statistical modeling and projection of violent right-wing extremism. He has also been involved in the development of the […]

Fallon Wilson from the Black Tech Futures Research Institute will present on the Black Tech Ecosystem Index. About Dr. Wilson: Through her work with non-profits, academia, and government partnerships, Dr. Fallon S. Wilson strives to make visible the work of historic and modern-day Black crises solvers. As the Lead Principal Investigator for #BlackTechFutures Research Institute, […]

Dr. Elisha Lim, is a Provost Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, where they are working on a book that connects social media algorithms to piety and pious conduct. Lim is also an award-winning claymation filmmaker and graphic novelist, and their community-based art practice has been extensively documented […]

Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression, […]