Summer School – Towards Responsible Machine Learning

This part-time, five-day course offers foundational Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data science concepts that are applicable in the humanities and social sciences. Offered by SFU's Digital Democracies Institute and […]

Nathan Schneider talks to the Institute

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The implicit feudalism of online communities An “implicit feudalism” informs the available options for community management on the dominant platforms for online communities. It is a pattern that grants user-administrators […]

Aleena Chia presents to the Institute

Aleena Leng An Chia is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication specializing in the ethnography of gaming cultures. Her research investigates practices at the margins of the digital and analogue, […]

Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power

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Wendy gives a keynote at Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power (A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar) at Cambridge, part of the Summer School on the same topic. The University […]

Caroline Colijn presents to the Lab

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Caroline’s work is at the interface of mathematics and the epidemiology and evolution of pathogens. She holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health. In […]

Tarleton Gillespie presents to the lab

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Prof. Gillespie's research focuses on the ongoing controversies surrounding digital media and commercial providers. His past work examined the move to technical solutions to copyright, their political and cultural implications, […]

Fenwick McKelvey presents to the lab

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Fenwick McKelvey studies algorithmic media – the intensification of software within communication infrastructure – through cases such as advanced Internet traffic management software and political campaign management software. His approach […]

Giulio Dalla Riva presents to the lab

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"Prolegomena to Antifascist Data Science: theory, praxis, but mostly pizza." In this talk Giulio is going to try and sketch how it may be possible to do data science in […]

Wendy gives President’s Lecture at SFU

In this President's Faculty Lecture, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (SFU's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media) will discuss themes from her forthcoming book Discriminating Data about how big data and predictive machine […]