Streaming to transgress: the racial politics of reactionary YouTubers and their audiences Cindy Ma is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute doing work on the discourse of white […]

Sean Cubitt is a Professor of Screen Studies, Culture and Communication, at the University of Melbourne. His research links film and media studies with ecocriticism, technological, aesthetic, economic and political history, and the media arts and aesthetics. He is series editor of Leonardo Books (MIT Press) and serves on the boards of the Media Art […]

Eleanor Drage is a Christina Gaw Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies and a member of the Gender & Technology Research Project team at the University of Cambridge. Her publications focus on how humanity defines and constitutes itself both through unstable socio-cultural processes such as race and gender and through fallible technological […]

Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Goldsmiths London. With Usman Haque, he is co-author of 'Urban Versioning System v1.0' (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, of ‘Evil Media’ (MIT), Editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' (MIT) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture. He is involved in a number of projects […]

Debora Nozza, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bocconi University and member of an NLP group in Milan, will be joining us for an in-person presentation with a Q & A. She'll be, in part, talking about this project: The interdisciplinary MONICA project will create a digital barometer of Italians’ attitudes towards the government measures implemented in […]

Members of the Digital Democracies Institute will attend a one-day retreat at SFU downtown from 10-4. More details TBD.

Schedule is currently bring drafted.

Dr. Moya Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on Black women’s use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine.   She also coined the […]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, SFU Honorary Degree recipient and renowned journalist Maria Ressa on how democracy dies by a thousand cuts. Renowned investigative journalist Maria Ressa received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her fearless defense of press freedom and democracy in the Philippines as CEO and co-founder of Rappler, an online news site. For her critical […]

Charlton McIlwain - Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development; Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Media, Culture, and Communication Charlton McIlwain's recent work focuses on the intersections of race, digital media, and racial justice activism. He recently wrote Racial Formation, Inequality & the Political Economy of Web Traffic, in the journal Information, Communication & […]

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University, who leads the Digital Democracies Institute, will be in conversation with respondents Alexander R. Galloway, Hannah Turner,​​​​​​​ and Evelyn Wan, moderated by Wayne Modest on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26  | 16.30-18 hours CET. On the event of the publication of Chun's most recent book Discriminating Data - Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New […]

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun University of Toronto Critical Digital Humanities Initiative In-Person: Saturday, October 1 Campbell Conference Facility 5:00-6:30 pm EST Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Dr. Chun is the author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), Programmed Visions: Software […]