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 […]

Nanditha Narayanamoorthy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work draws from a Humanities-based framework to understand the relationship between technology and democracy and rethink digital infrastructure and platform design, particularly for marginalized communities in the Global South. As […]

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University is pleased to announce the Neil Postman Graduate Student Conference to be held on October 27-28, 2022 in a hybrid format (in person at NYU, with support for remote contributions). Keynote speaker is Professor Wendy Chun and the theme this year is 'Hinterlands of […]

Susan Benesch is an Adjunct Associate Professor, School of International Service, at the American Univeristy. She founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project (dangerousspeech.org), to study speech that can inspire violence - and to find ways to prevent this, without infringing on freedom of expression. She conducts research on methods to diminish harmful speech online, or the harm […]

Dr. Angelica Lim is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. She builds artificial intelligence software for robots to interact in a smart, but fun, way. She has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kyoto University, Japan, specializing in AI applied to Robotics, and a B.Sc. in […]

Join CBC/Radio-Canada President Catherine Tait and guest panelists for a conversation about building trust and protecting our democracy. This important discussion will touch on journalism and reporting, building relationships with the audience, online safety and public policy. CBC/Radio-Canada and partners University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University invite interested members of the public to join them for a light […]