Reshaping our Digital Interactions: Subjectivity in the Post-Cinema Age Colloque en traduction simultanée anglais / français | Simultaneous French / English translation available at symposium ENQUÊTES SUR LA SURVEILLANCE ET LES LOGIQUES ALGORITHMIQUES, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Keynote), Antonio Somaini, Félix Tréguer À propos de cet évènement REMODELER NOS INTERACTIONS NUMERIQUES : La subjectivité à […]
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Giorgia Aiello Event is in English Wendy 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 […]
Lorena Jaume-Palasí - Normative solutionism: Commonalities and frictions between European law and algorithmic systems Rescheduled from March 16 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]