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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at University of Notre Dame
DESCRIPTION:Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of\, and live with\, our computational social condition today. Considering sociocultural\, aesthetic\, politicoeconomic\, environmental\, racial\, and historical registers of technology together\, the series will bring together people who think and do technology beyond disciplinary boundaries. The events are all designed as an ongoing series of conversations between scholars and practitioners in Media Studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology\, Critical Digital Studies\, and Literary Cultural Studies. \nLife in Pixels is generously sponsored by the Ruth and Paul Idzik College Chair in Digital Scholarship\, the Program in History and Philosophy of Science\, the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society\, the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship\, and the Department of Film\, Television\, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. \nWednesday\, January 26th\, 4:00 pm PST (zoom book talk) \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication where she leads the Digital Democracies Institute. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature\, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016)\, and Discriminating Data (2021\, MIT Press)\, and co-author of Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota + Meson Press 2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor. \nRegistration required for this event must take place prior to the virtual book talk. \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-university-of-notre-dame/
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SUMMARY:Susan Schuppli presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Susan Schuppli\, Goldsmiths University of London\, is an artist-researcher and writer. She is currently Director & Reader of the Centre for Research Architecture. Through investigative processes that involve an engagement with scientific and technical modes of inquiry\, her work aims to open up new conceptual pathways into the material strata of our world. \nWhile many projects have examined media artefacts—photographs\, film\, video\, and audio transmissions—that have emerged out of sites of contemporary conflict and state violence\, current work explores the ways in which toxic ecologies from nuclear accidents and oil spills to the dark snow of the arctic are producing an “extreme image” archive of material wrongs. Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe as well as in Canada\, Asia and the US. \nShe has published widely within the context of media and politics and am author of the forthcoming book\, Material Witness (MIT Press)\, which is also the subject of an experimental documentary. \nShe is an affiliate artist-researcher and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. Previously she was Senior Research Fellow and Project Co-ordinator of Forensic Architecture. In 2016 she received the ICP Infinity Award for Research and Critical Writing.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/susan-schuppli-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at McMaster University: "The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective\, productive\, and necessary."
DESCRIPTION:Join McMaster University for a public talk (on Zoom) by Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun entitled “The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective\, productive\, and necessary”. Dr. Chun is a 2022 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University\, sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts\, the Department of English and Cultural Studies\, the School of the Arts\, the Centre for Networked Media and Performance\, the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship\, the graduate program in Gender and Social Justice\, and the undergraduate program in Global Peace and Social Justice. Full details below – please note that advance registration on Zoom (free) is required. \nWhen: Feb 8\, 2022 01:30 – 3:00 PM PST \nDr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: “The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective\, productive\, and necessary.” \nAbstract: The Digital Democracies Institute (DDI) integrates research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice. Our work aims to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation\, by fostering critical and creative user practices\, and alternative paradigms for connection. A range of disciplines provides rich perspectives on democracy’s ideals and practices in the Internet age. Yet\, despite the best efforts of specialists in various disciplines and sectors\, the problems of misinformation\, radicalization\, echo chambers\, and abusive language persist. A lack of communication across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries means that insights into these problems may be replicated and not shared\, and solutions that may depend on insights from another discipline may not be considered. In addition\, the lack of a common vocabulary inhibits the development of shared theoretical frameworks and solutions. The Digital Democracies Institute aims to bridge this gap through interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge mobilization. \nBio: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the DDI. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature\, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016)\, and Discriminating Data (2021\, MIT Press)\, and co-author of Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota + Meson Press 2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania\, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)\, and she has held fellowships from: the Guggenheim\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has been a Visiting Professor at AI Now at NYU\, the Velux Visiting Professor of Management\, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School; the Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon\, Visiting Professor at Leuphana University (Luneburg\, Germany)\, and a Visiting Associate Professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard\, of which she is an Associate.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-mcmaster-university-the-digital-democracies-institute-and-why-interdisciplinary-work-is-effective-productive-and-necessary/
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SUMMARY:Courtney Radsch presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:AI and Disinformation: State-Aligned Information Operations and the Distortion of the Public Sphere \nCourtney C. Radsch\, PhD\, is a journalist\, scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on the intersection of technology\, media\, and human rights. Currently\, she is a fellow at UCLA’s Technology\, Law and Policy Institute; a senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Center for Media\, Data and Society (CMDS); and a visiting scholar at Annenberg’s Center for Media at Risk. Her research focuses on internet governance and the geopolitics of technology\, media sustainability and the future of journalism\, and power dynamics in digitally inflected information ecosystems. She is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2016) based on her pioneering doctoral research and her work has been published in top media outlets and peer-reviewed academic journals. She is a frequent public speaker and frequent media commentator including for CNN\, Al Jazeera\, NPR\, and other global media outlets. Dr. Radsch has led advocacy missions to more than a dozen countries and has provided expert testimony to Congress\, the OSCE\, OECD\, and the United Nations. \nShe spent seven years as Advocacy Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists\, where she led its technology policy advocacy and campaigns to free imprisoned journalists\, redress impunity for journalist murders\, and combat online harassment. As a scholar-practitioner and former journalist in the Middle East\, Radsch is deeply interested in the practical implications of her research and serves on a variety of advisory bodies and civil society networks including the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the UN Internet Governance Forum\, the International Science Council’s Panel of Experts\, and the internet governance academic research network GigaNet. She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Online Violence (COAV)\, The ACOS Alliance (A Culture of Safety)\, and the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. She serves on the board of Tech Policy Press and the advisory board of the Dangerous Speech Project and Ranking Digital Rights. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from American University. Find her on Twitter @courtneyr and www.mediatedspeech.com.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/courtney-radsch-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 2: Wendy Chun — Discriminating data
DESCRIPTION:University of Waterloo – Thursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 6 to 9 p.m. online in three parts | Register now \nHave you ever observed a divisive\, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background? \nIn her most recent book\, Discriminating Data (2021)\, Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \n\n6:00-7:00 p.m.\nData Jam\nIn this pre-conversation event\, co-organized with the qcollaborative\, participants will engage in a group design activity inspired by Wendy Chun’s book\, Discriminating Data. Limited space available. \n\n\n7:00-8:00 p.m.\nDiscriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun\nParticipants include Marcel O’Gorman (moderator) with respondents Brie Wiens and Queenie Wu. \n\n\n8:00-9:00 p.m.\n2D Social Mixer\nJoin in Gather Town for the “Data Jam Showcase” and a surprise jam room.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/critical-tech-talk-2-wendy-chun-discriminating-data/
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SUMMARY:Webinar - Protecting Expert Advice for the Public: Promoting Safety and Improved Communications
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has highlighted the extent to which researchers who publicly share their expertise and the results of research face harassment and personal threats. The intimidation of experts has recently garnered significant media attention\, but it is a problem that has affected the safety\, well-being\, and work of those who produce knowledge for some time. There is significant risk not only to researchers\, but also to the public if the threat of intimidation prevents researchers from sharing knowledge and expertise. \nThese risks\, and some steps to mitigate them\, are articulated in the Royal Society of Canada Policy Briefing on Protecting Expert Advice for the Public. \nOn February 11\, at 2:00 pm EST\, the RSC is hosting an hour-long free virtual Town Hall convening the authors of this report to discuss key challenges in ongoing efforts to draw on expert advice to support effective public debate and decision-making to help Canada through\, and beyond\, the pandemic. Register for the event here. \nModerator \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Professor\, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, School of Communication\, Simon Fraser University \nPanelists \nAmanda Clarke\, Associate Professor\, School of Public Policy & Administration\, Carleton University \nMatthew Herder\, Associate Professor\, Department of Pharmacology\, Faculty of Medicine\, and Director\, Health Law Institute\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University \nHoward Ramos\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western University \nJulia M. Wright\, FRSC\, George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric\, Department of English\, Dalhousie University
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/webinar-protecting-expert-advice-for-the-public-promoting-safety-and-improved-communications/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220214T170000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at Berkeley Center for New Media
DESCRIPTION:Discriminating Data with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute\, Simon Fraser University \nRegister for Zoom link here!\nOr watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gx3SrPAWW1g \nIn Discriminating Data\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \nAbout Wendy Chun\nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University\, and leads the Digital Democracies Institute which was launched in 2019. The Institute aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. It has four distinct research streams all led by Dr. Chun: Beyond Verification which looks at authenticity and the spread of disinformation; From Hate to Agonism\, focusing on fostering democratic exchange online; Desegregating Network Neighbourhoods\, combatting homophily across platforms; and Discriminating Data: Neighbourhoods\, Individuals and Proxies\, investigating the centrality of race\, gender\, class and sexuality to big data and network analytics. \nDr. Chun is also the author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011)\, and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, as well as numerous articles and edited collections. She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes\, including the Guggenheim Foundation\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades. Currently\, Dr. Chun works with the Digital Democracies Institute to undertake the proliferation of misinformation\, abusive language and discriminatory algorithms. Through the investigation of natural language processing (NLP)\, political theory and critical data studies\, the group aims to develop methods for creating effective online counterspeech and alternative models for connection. \nAccessibiilty\nThe event is free and open to the public and will take place virtually over Zoom with a simultaneous livestream on BCNM’s YouTube Channel. All of our broadcasts will be live-captioned\, and our Zoom Webinar experience offers an additional Streamtext window with options to customize caption text size and display. Please contact info.bcnm [at] berkeley.edu with requests or questions. \nWith the consent of featured speakers\, all recorded videos will be available on the BCNM YouTube channel immediately after the event and event transcripts will be posted to this page one month after the event. We strive to meet any additional access and accommodation needs. \nBCNM is proud to make conversations with leading scholars\, artists\, and technologists freely available to the public. Please help us continue this tradition by making a tax-deductible donation today. If you are in the position to support the program\, we suggest $5 per event\, or $100 a year.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-berkley-center-for-new-media/
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SUMMARY:Seda Gürses presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Seda is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management\, and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)\, KU Leuven. Previously she was an FWO post-doctoral fellow at COSIC/ESAT\, a research associate at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton University\, and a fellow at the Media\, Culture and Communications Department at NYU Steinhardt as well as the Information Law Institute at NYU Law School. \nHer work focuses on privacy enhancing and protective optimization technologies (PETs and POTs)\, privacy engineering\, as well as questions around software infrastructures\, social justice and political economy as they intersect with computer science.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/seda-gurses-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at Brown University's COGUT Institute for the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Discriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun \nRegister for the event here. \nIn Discriminating Data (MIT Press\, 2021)\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal — not an error — within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media and leads the Digital Democracies Institute. She is the author of several works including Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press\, 2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT Press\, 2016)\, and Discriminating Data (MIT Press\, 2021). \nThe series “Democracy: A Humanities Perspective” is convened by Amanda Anderson\, Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. Through both the format and the content\, we aim to showcase the forms of layered understanding and analysis that humanities scholars bring to the study of democracy\, with special emphasis on current challenges in the U.S. and abroad. The events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-brown-university-cogut-institute-for-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at UCSC Computational Media Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Chun at UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Seminar. \nRegister here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-ucsc-computational-media-seminar/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220302T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220302T133000
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SUMMARY:Yuan Stevens presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Markets\, Architectures\, Norms\, or Law? Regulating Automated Face Recognition in Canada \nYuan (“You-anne”) Stevens is a legal and policy expert focused on information integrity\, data protection and human rights. She works towards a world where powerful actors—and the systems they build—are held accountable to the public\, especially when it comes to equality-seeking communities. She brings years of international experience to her work\, having examined the impacts of technology on marginalized populations in Canada\, the US\, and Germany. Yuan is a collaborator at the Centre for Media\, Technology and Democracy at McGill University and research fellow at the Centre for Law\, Technology and Society at uOttawa. She previously worked at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society during her studies in joint degree in civil and common law at McGill University.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/yuan-stevens-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220309T123000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Beller presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Beller is a Professor of Humanities & Media Studies at the Pratt Institute. \nOne of the foremost theorists of the visual turn and the attention economy; works on the history of cinema and the way in which the screen-image has altered all aspects of social life; books and edited volumes include: The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle\, Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality\, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System\, and Feminist Media Theory (a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online); serves on the Editorial Collective of the internationally recognized journal Social Text.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/jonathan-beller-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Discriminating Data: Wendy Chun in dialogue with Yuk Hui 
DESCRIPTION:Book Conversation: Discriminating Data by Wendy Chun\nIn dialogue with Yuk Hui \nThu 10 March 2022\, 5pm PST / Fri 11 March 2022\, 9am HKT\nOnline Event: Register to join via Zoom\nFacebook Event: https://fb.me/e/304BhrtRH \nIn this event\, Wendy Chun will discuss her latest book Discriminating Data (2021\, MIT Press) in conversation with Yuk Hui. \nIn Discriminating Data\, Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible.\nChun\, who has a background in systems design engineering as well as media studies and cultural theory\, explains that although machine learning algorithms may not officially include race as a category\, they embed whiteness as a default. Facial recognition technology\, for example\, relies on the faces of Hollywood celebrities and university undergraduates—groups not famous for their diversity. Homophily emerged as a concept to describe white U.S. resident attitudes to living in biracial yet segregated public housing. Predictive policing technology deploys models trained on studies of predominantly underserved neighbourhoods. Trained on selected and often discriminatory or dirty data\, these algorithms are only validated if they mirror this data.\nHow can we release ourselves from the vice-like grip of discriminatory data? Chun calls for alternative algorithms\, defaults\, and interdisciplinary coalitions in order to desegregate networks and foster a more democratic big data.\n\nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication\, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature\, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016)\, and Discriminating Data (2021\, MIT Press)\, and co-author of Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota + Meson Press 2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/discriminating-data-wendy-chun-in-dialogue-with-yuk-hui/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Lorena Jaume-Palasí presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Lorena Jaume-Palasí is the founder of The Ethical Tech Society\, a non-profit organization researching processes of automation and digitization with regards to their social relevance. Lorena researches the ethics of digitization and automation. In this context\, she also deals with questions of legal philosophy. In 2017 she was appointed by the Spanish government to the High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence and Data Policy. She is one of the 100 experts of the Cotec Foundation for her work on automation and ethics. She is a Fellow of the Bucerius Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board on Education and Discourse of the Goethe Institute. Lorena has testified before the European Parliament and the European Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics on several occasions. She additionally heads the secretariat of the German National Section of the IGF as well as projects on Internet Governance in Asia and Africa. Lorena is regularly consulted by international organizations\, associations and governments. She has co-authored and edited various publications on internet governance and regularly writes on data protection\, privacy and publicity\, public goods and discrimination. In 2018 she was awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal for “her contribution to a differentiated view of algorithms and their mechanisms” for AlgorithmWatch initiative.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/lorena-jaume-palasi-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at Latent Spaces - Performing Ambiguous Data
DESCRIPTION:The value of ambiguity.\nData\, Proxies and the limits of the computable via YouTube Stream \nwith Mireille Hildebrandt & Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, moderated by Felix Stalder \nMireille Hildebrandt:\nThe politics of ambiguity and the issue of proxies\nIn my talk\, I will argue that what matters is not computable. However\, it can be made computable\, and in different ways. This difference in turn matters\, it makes a difference for those who will suffer or enjoy the consequences. To make things computable developers need proxies\, as computing systems cannot deal with the ambiguity of the languages we live in. Decisions on disambiguation and the choice of proxies have far-reaching implications\, There is a politics in these design decisions that requires our keen attention. This is where transparency and agonistic debate are pertinent. \nMireille Hildebrandt is a lawyer and philosopher who works at the intersection of law and computer science. She is the Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel[1] and at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is also the principal investigator of the ‘Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law’ project (2019–2024). The research targets two forms of computational law: machine learning and blockchain technology. \nAmong her many publications\, the most relevant for this series is: \nHildebrandt\, Mireille. 2019. “Privacy as Protection of the Incomputable Self: From Agnostic to Agonistic Machine Learning.” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 20 (1): 83–121. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun:\nThe Politics of Proxies\nData proxies spell trouble and they are everywhere. They are the interfaces where the unknowable is translated into the known. They provide a measure for that which cannot be measured. As such\, they are full of political assumptions\, troubling the clean separation between data and model. The inherent ambivalence of proxies can open the space for a critique that is less about whether the models “get it right”\, but about which models we want. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver. Since its launch in 2019\, she leads the Digital Democracies Institute which aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms\, and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. \nAmong her many publications\, the most relevant for this series is \nChun\, Wendy Hui Kyong. 2021. Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition. Cambridge\, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. (in particular\, the section on “proxies”). \nThis is the first event of a three-part series of talks and workshops that explore ambiguity and data.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-latent-spaces-performing-ambiguous-data/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Tung-Hui Hu presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Tung-Hui Hu is associate professor at the University of Michigan in the department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of three books of poetry\, The Book of Motion (2003)\, Mine (2007)\, and Greenhouses\, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press\, 2013)\, a chapbook\, On the Kepel Fruit (Albion Books\, 2017)\, and a study of digital culture\, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press\, 2015)\, which was described by The New Yorker as “mesmerizing… absorbing [in] its playful speculations”. His new book\, an exploration of burnout\, isolation\, and disempowerment in the digital underclass\, is Digital Lethargy\, forthcoming from MIT Press. \nHis research has been featured on CBS News\, BBC Radio 4\, Boston Globe\, New Scientist\, Art in America\, and Rhizome.org\, among other venues. Hu has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the NEA\, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin\, and the San Francisco Foundation\, and his poems have appeared in places such as Boston Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, the Academy of American Poets’s Poem-a-Day\, and the anthology Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Hybrid Literary Genres. He is a member of the editorial board of Afterimage.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/tung-hui-hu-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220406T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220406T133000
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SUMMARY:Dylan Mulvin presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr Dylan Mulvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE\, where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc Media and Communications. \nDr Mulvin is a historian of media and technology. Drawing on methods from media studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, gender studies\, and disability studies\, Dr Mulvin investigates how standards\, infrastructures\, and defaults encode and crystallise assumptions about human perception and behavior. In other words\, he studies the ways people make the stuff that we take for granted. He is the author of Proxies: the Cultural Work of Standing In (published open access with MIT Press). \nPrior to joining the Department\, Dr Mulvin was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England\, where he was a member of the Social Media Collective. He earned his MA and PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/dylan-mulvin-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220409T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220409T180000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun's keynote address at UC Berkeley's Science Ethics and Policy Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Ethical Tech: Understanding the Sociocultural History of Our Technological Defaults \nBefore we can talk about science policy issues\, we need to talk about trust. How can we make sure science and its applications serve every community? Register to see the #SEPS2022 keynote with Wendy Chun on Saturday\, April 9: http://seps2022.com.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chuns-keynote-address-at-uc-berkeleys-science-ethics-and-policy-symposium/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Jason Lewis presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Jason Edward Lewis is Full Professor of Design and Computation Arts. He is a digital media artist\, poet and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media\, where he directs research/ creation projects using virtual environments to assist Aboriginal communities in preserving\, interpreting and communicating cultural histories\, devising new means of creating and reading digital texts\, developing systems for creative use of mobile technology. He is the director of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, a seven-year SSHRC-funded Partnership focused on how Indigenous communities imaging themselves seven generations hence. Lewis co-founded and co-directs the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network that is investigating how Aboriginal people can participate in the shaping of our digital media future\, and co-directs workshop combining traditional stories and game design at the Kahnawake First Nations’ high school. He is deeply committed to developing intriguing new forms of expression by working on conceptual\, creative and technical levels simultaneously. Lewis’ creative work has been featured at the Ars Electronica Center\, ISEA\, SIGGRAPH\, Urban Screens and Mobilefest\, among other venues\, his writing about new media has been presented at conferences\, festivals and exhibitions on four continents and his work with Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace has won multiple awards. \nHe received his MPhil from the Royal College of Art for Dynamic Poetry: Introductory Remarks to a New Medium.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/jason-lewis-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220420T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220420T133000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Running Wolf presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Running Wolf (Crow Nation)\, nee Old Coyote\, is an enrolled member of the Apsáalooke Nation (Crow) in Montana\, with a Swabian (German) mother and also Pikuni\, Oglala\, and Ho-Chunk heritage. As the daughter of nomadic parents\, she grew up between USA\, Canada\, and Germany. Thanks to her genuine interest in people and their stories\, she is a multilingual Cultural Acclimation Artist dedicated to supporting Indigenous language and culture vitality. After working for over 15 years as a professional nerd herder and business consultant in various fields\, Running Wolf co-founded a nonprofit\, Buffalo Tongue\, with her husband\, Michael Running Wolf. Together they create virtual and augmented reality experiences to advocate for Native American voices\, languages\, and cultures. Running Wolf has a Master’s degree in Native American Studies from Montana State University in Bozeman\, Montana. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver\, Canada.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/caroline-running-wolf-presents-to-the-ddi/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220523T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220523T160000
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CREATED:20220524T160540Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy at Alliance Program Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Reshaping our Digital Interactions: Subjectivity in the Post-Cinema Age \nColloque en traduction simultanée anglais / français | Simultaneous French / English translation available at symposium \nENQUÊTES SUR LA SURVEILLANCE ET LES LOGIQUES ALGORITHMIQUES\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Keynote)\, Antonio Somaini\, Félix Tréguer \nÀ propos de cet évènement\nREMODELER NOS INTERACTIONS NUMERIQUES : La subjectivité à l’ère du post-cinéma \nÀ l’ère de ce que Gilles Deleuze a appelé les « sociétés de contrôle » – gouvernées aujourd’hui à la fois par la prédictibilité algorithmique\, les nouvelles formes de travail numérique ou l’« économie de l’attention » – quelles stratégies sont explorées par des artistes\, des chercheurs et des usagers\, pour produire de nouvelles relations aux dispositifs numériques\, réflexives et émancipatrices\, plutôt qu’addictives\, compulsives et conspirationnistes ? \nCe colloque souhaite questionner des enjeux esthétiques\, psychiques et politiques de la transformation rapide des technologies et des plateformes numériques\, en confrontant différents diagnostiques critiques et en examinant des expérimentations artistiques à l’ère du « post-cinéma » (celle des reconfigurations du médium cinématographique à l’époque des médias connectés). \nProjet Alliance porté par Nico Baumbach (Columbia University)et Judith Michalet (Université Paris 1)avec la participation de Aline Caillet (Université Paris 1)\, Yves Citton (Université Paris 8)\, Jane M. Gaines (Columbia University)\, Gwenola Wagon (Université Paris 8) et Damon R. Young (UC Berkeley)\, comme membres du comité scientifique. \n  \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-colloque-international-remodeler-nos-interactions-numeriques-337204938047
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-alliance-program-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220525T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220525T180000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Giorgia Aiello at École universitaire de recherche ArTeC
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Giorgia Aiello \nEvent is in English \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun est l’une des plus importantes théoriciennes de la digitalité\, de la programmation\, du contrôle algorithmique\, de l’utilisation des big data et des plateformes\, reconnue internationalement mais encore très peu traduite en français. Elle dirige le Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University au Canada\, après avoir enseigné à Brown University et avoir été invitée dans de nombreuses universités à l’international. Elle parle à partir d’une double formation en Systems Design Engineering et en Littérature. Elle a publié une trilogie pionnière avec Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press\, 2011) et Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT Press\, 2016). Son plus récent ouvrage s’intitule Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition (MIT Press\, 2021). \nGiorgia Aiello est professeure de culture et de communication à l’université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni)\, et professeure associée en sociologie de la culture et de la communication à l’université de Bologne (Italie). Après avoir obtenu son diplôme du programme d’études en communication fondé par Umberto Eco à Bologne\, elle a obtenu son doctorat à l’université de Washington à Seattle\, aux États‑Unis. Ses recherches visent à découvrir comment se forment les identités\, comment la différence et la diversité sont négociées et comment les inégalités sont maintenues ou surmontées grâce à la communication visuelle. Elle a été chercheuse invitée\, conférencière invitée et conférencière principale dans des universités\, des conférences et des ateliers dans douze pays différents. Giorgia est co-autrice du livre Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture (avec K. Parry\, SAGE\, 2020) et directrice de l’ouvrage Communicating the City: Meanings\, Practices\, Interactions (avec M. Tarantino and K. Oakley\, Peter Lang\, 2017). Une traduction française de quatre de ses articles vient de paraître dans la Petite Collection de l’EUR ArTeC en co-édition avec Les presses du réel : Communication\, espace\, image\, préfacée par Marta Severo et postfacée par Maria Giulia Dondero. \nWendy Chun présentera les enjeux politiques actuels de l’utilisation des big data en régime de capitalisme de plateforme\, en mettant la lumière sur ce qui fait des algorithmes et IA d’aujourd’hui la continuation de théories eugénistes et de statistiques discriminatoires (racistes\, sexistes) héritées du XXe siècle. \nGiorgia Aiello présentera son travail autour du rôle des “visuels génériques” dans la culture publique. Elle prend au sérieux l’abondance de la photographie de stock dans la vie quotidienne\, en faisant valoir que ce que nous considérons souvent comme une imagerie banale et de “seconde classe” est au contraire devenu l’épine dorsale visuelle de notre imagination culturelle et sociale. \nJoin Zoom Meeting :\nhttps://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/99178198467?pwd=MmpxNmxicGFOc2xzTzZVOG9PMncyZz09\nMeeting ID: 991 7819 8467\nPasscode: 489717
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-hui-kyong-chun-giorgia-aiello-at-ecole-universitaire-de-recherche-artec/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Lorena Jaume-Palasí presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Lorena Jaume-Palasí – Normative solutionism: Commonalities and frictions between European law and algorithmic systems\nRescheduled from March 16\n\nLorena Jaume-Palasí is the founder of The Ethical Tech Society\, a non-profit organization researching processes of automation and digitization with regards to their social relevance. Lorena researches the ethics of digitization and automation. In this context\, she also deals with questions of legal philosophy. She is a Fellow of the Bucerius Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board on Education and Discourse of the Goethe Institute. She additionally heads the secretariat of the German National Section of the IGF as well as projects on Internet Governance in Asia and Africa. She has co-authored and edited various publications on internet governance and regularly writes on data protection\, privacy and publicity\, public goods and discrimination.\n\nTo virtually join: email ddi_comms@sfu.ca
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/lorena-jaume-palasi-presents-to-the-ddi-2/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220608T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220608T133000
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SUMMARY:Cindy Ma presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Streaming to transgress: the racial politics of reactionary YouTubers and their audiences \nCindy Ma is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute doing work on the discourse of white racial resentment\, with a focus on YouTube personalities and their audiences. Her research examines the interactions between online ecosystems\, political discourse\, and racial inequity. Prior to starting her PhD\, she completed an MSc in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and worked in the nonprofit sector. She is a 2019 Trudeau Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. \nTo join the presentation email ddi_comms@sfu.ca.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/cindy-ma-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220622T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220622T133000
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SUMMARY:Sean Cubitt presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION: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 History network\, Goldsmiths Press\, Media Art 21 (CAFA Beijing / SFMOMA / He Foundation)\, Delocating Mountains (Austrian Science Fund) and a number of journal and books series including Screen\, Cultural Politics\, Visual Art Practice and the Journal of Environmental Media. He is currently working on the latest of nine funded research projects\, this dealing with social media and photography. \nTo join the presentation email ddi_comms@sfu.ca.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/sean-cubitt-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220629T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220629T133000
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SUMMARY:Eleanor Drage & Kerry Mackereth present to the DDI
DESCRIPTION: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 systems. Eleanor is particularly interested in how technology can prompt and develop certain kinds of behavioural skills\, and how anti-racist and anti-sexist critical theory can be implemented at industry-level to develop ethical and socially transformative technological products. \nKerry Mackereth 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. She is also a Research Associate at St. John’s College\, Cambridge. Kerry’s work broadly explores how histories of gendered and racialised violence shape new technologies. Kerry’s PhD thesis examined how women’s violent protests\, specifically\, their hunger strikes in the contexts of women’s prisons and immigration detention centres\, complicate theories of political violence. \nTo join this presentation email ddi_comms@sfu.ca.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/eleanor-drage-kerry-mackereth-present-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220706T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220706T133000
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SUMMARY:Matthew Fuller presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION: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 in art\, media and software and is the author of the forthcoming\, ‘How to Sleep\, in art\, biology and culture’ (Bloomsbury). \nTo join this presentation email ddi_comms@sfu.ca.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/matthew-fuller-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220719T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220719T133000
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SUMMARY:Debora Nozza presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION: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. \nShe’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 response to COVID-19. The pandemic has plunged millions of vulnerable people into abject poverty. The government created financial measures to improve the economic situation and social inclusion. However\, it is unclear whether these measures reach those who need them most. To find out\, we will uncover the public perception of these measures and provide concrete metrics for three related dimensions: 1) coverage of the potential beneficiaries\, 2) attitudes of the Italian population stratified by different demographic factors\, and 3) accessibility of the information. MONICA will provide citizens with a tool to automatically rank and simplify articles about requirements and steps to access these initiatives. MONICA will enable policymakers to understand which segments of the vulnerable population are not accessing these initiatives and why.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca to participate.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/debora-nozza-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220720T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220720T160000
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SUMMARY:DDI Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Members of the Digital Democracies Institute will attend a one-day retreat at SFU downtown from 10-4. More details TBD.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-retreat/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220727T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220729T170000
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SUMMARY:Mellon in-person team meetings
DESCRIPTION:Schedule is currently bring drafted.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/mellon-in-person-team-meetings/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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