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SUMMARY:Symposium: Korea University's Center for ICT and Society - SFU's Digital Democracies Institute & Transnational Culture and Digital Technology Lab
DESCRIPTION:The SFU – Korea University Symposium is taking place on February 8 from 12:00-5:00 PST. This event is in partnership with The Center for ICT and Society\, Korea University\, the Transnational Culture and Digital Technology Lab\, SFU & The Digital Democracies Institute\, SFU. \n \nThis event takes place in person at the DDI\, with keynote speaker Prof. Seongcheol Kim of the Center for ICT & Society / Smart Media Service Research Center presenting “The burgeoning Korean media industry: Its light and shade.”\n \nIn addition to our guests and visitors from Korea University\, this event is open to faculty and graduate students at SFU’s School of Communication. Space is limited\, so email ddi_comms@sfu.ca for registration. Lunch will be provided.\n \nSee details and program:\n\n\nKeynote\n \nProf. Seongcheol Kim of the Center for ICT & Society / Smart Media Service Research Center.\n “The burgeoning Korean media industry: Its light and shade”\n\nPanel I\n \nProf. Yoonhyuk Jung\, School of Media and Communication\, Korea University. “Understanding conflicts between incumbent players and entrant platforms from the perspective of social representations: The case of LawTalk”\n \nChulmin Lim\, School of Media and Communication\, Korea University. “Examining factors Influencing the user’s loyalty on algorithmic news recommendation service”\n \nChaeyun Jang\, School of Media and Communication\, Korea University. “Kids content as IPTV platform’s new differentiator: The Korean Case” \n \nPanel II\n \nDal Yong Jin/ Hyejin Jo\, School of Communication\, Simon Fraser University. “Platformization in media governance: A critical case study of the gigantic platform power”\n \nBen Scholl\, Digital Democracies Institute\, Simon Fraser University. “Border crisis: Exploring algorithmic power along digital platforms’ shared boundaries”\n \nAlberto Lusoli\, Digital Democracies Institute\, Simon Fraser University. “From hate to agonism”
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/symposium-korea-universitys-center-for-ict-and-society-sfus-digital-democracies-institute-transnational-culture-and-digital-technology-lab/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Fenwick McKelvey presents to DDI
DESCRIPTION:Fenwick McKelvey (Concordia University) will be joining the DDI in person for a presentation\, as part of the Spring Speaker Series. \n“You Played Yourself: The Origins of World Politics as Computer Game” \nIn 1959\, political scientist Oliver Benson created the first computer simulation of world politics. Written to run in the drum of an IBM 650 machine\, Benson’s Simple Diplomatic Game simulated international crises between nine nations. “Players” could read the print-outs if the United States declared all-out-war against the USSR (codename HBOMB). The simple game was a “modest beginning” that Benson thought had no utility for prediction. In spite of its humble origins\, Benson was not the first nor the last to imagine the world as a game. Benson’s slippage to describe international relations as a computer game has stabilized into a power socio-technical imaginary about politics and world order central to American defense intelligence. In 2020\, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — what Sharon Weinberger calls the “imagineers of war” — announced a new program to support its work on military artificial intelligence\, GAMEBREAKER (https://www.darpa.mil/program/gamebreaker). It trains a new generation of strategic AIs to master commercial computer games\, presuming that masters these virtual competitions will port to predicting and defeating American opponents in the game of realpolitik. My presentation explores how it became sensible to imagine global politics as a computer game. The chapter focuses on the early prototypes that gradually legitimated computer simulations of world politics to understand how a simple game became GAMEBREAKER. \n  \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/fenwick-mckelvey-presents-to-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies Speaker Series - Joan Donovan
DESCRIPTION:Joan Donovan from the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy will present on their new book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. \nThis presentation is part of the Data Fluencies Speaker Series\, co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California and the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Program. \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-joan-donovan/
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SUMMARY:Global Media Education Summit 2023 Keynote by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Amy Harris
DESCRIPTION:KEYNOTE: How to Sense the Future: Global Climate Change and Media Edu-cologies – Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Amy Harris \nGlobal climate change has been predicted for at least a century\, and yet little has been changed in response. This inaction has revealed the importance and inadequacy of knowledge: at first\, many scientists and activists believed that simply educating the public would be enough\, but the continuing lack of action and the debates over the existence and cause of global climate change – even after many predictions have materialised – has proven otherwise. Although there are many reasons for this failure to act – such as concerted political efforts to sow fear\, uncertainty\, and doubt – our talk explores the difficulty of scale and attempts to overcome it. A fundamental difficulty is the fact that we experience weather\, not climate: climate is an abstraction based on global inputs and dynamics that seem impervious to individual actions. To register the intricate and interwoven impact of climate change\, we turn to arts-based interventions that deploy affectively intense hyper-local experiences. Ranging from individual VR experiences\, to large scale art installations\, they reveal how the senses can be deployed to create affective and effective relationships with our future world. \nThe Global Media Education Summit (MES) brings together an international network of researchers\, educators\, and practitioners across all aspects of media education\, media and digital literacies\, youth media production and media and technology in education. As the leading global showcase for research\, pedagogy\, and innovation\, MES explores the changing currents across media education and media literacy communities around the world. \nHeld at Harbour Centre\, Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver\, Canada on March 2nd – 4th 2023 – in person\, with virtual panels. \nMore information\, including registration here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/global-media-education-summit-2023-keynote-by-wendy-hui-kyong-chun-and-amy-harris/
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SUMMARY:Chelsea Rosenthal presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Before joining the faculty at Simon Fraser\, she was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University and did her doctoral work in NYU’s Philosophy Department. She also holds a J.D. from the Law School there. Her research focuses on ethics\, philosophy of law\, and political philosophy\, with current projects on moral uncertainty\, privacy and content moderation on social media\, and the ethical responsibilities of lawyers. \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/chelsea-rosenthal-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230316T090000
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SUMMARY:Digital Policy Rounds: Mis/disinformation and the question of authenticity
DESCRIPTION:Digital Policy Rounds: Mis/disinformation and the question of authenticity\nThursday\, March 16 from 9 am – 10 am PST \nRegister here \nABOUT THE EVENT\nWhile mis- and dis-information is primarily understood in terms of its facticity\, or lack thereof\, the very circulation of information such as news stories is tied to the cultural contexts in which people come to trust and rely on certain channels of information. Tackling misinformation\, then\, requires not just repudiation of its claims but an understanding of how and why its claims become significant — through what cultural channels — for certain groups of people. How do these channels influence what people will believe in their news and information consumption habits? How do recommender algorithms shape cultural channels that mark certain information as compelling? How does understanding the cultural sites of meaning-making help us address mis- and dis-information? \nThis panel seeks to surface the cultural dimensions of mis- and dis-information through the lens of authenticity: how claims to truthfulness and facticity are recognized as believable by communities\, and so how those claims are authenticated as truth or facts. Our panelists will discuss the historical\, technological\, and political aspects of claiming access to an authentic reality\, and how addressing mis- and dis-information through policy requires engaging culturally with those claims. \nRegister to receive the event Zoom link on the day of the event. \n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nDr. Elisha Lim is a Provosts’ Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. Lim is currently working on a book called “Pious” that studies the rise in distorted identity politics through theology and Afropessimism\, tackling issues from ethnic fraud to hyperbolic corporate solidarity statements. Lim is part of Canada’s Initiative for Digital Citizen Research\, which advises on digital government policy\, and is a Joint Initiative organized by SSHRC and the Department of Canadian Heritage.\n\n\nChristina de Castell is chief librarian & CEO at Vancouver Public Library\, and has held roles bridging technology\, collections\, research and public service in her more than twenty years as a librarian. She is passionate about the role of libraries in building communities and exploring ideas\, and fascinated by the way that technology is changing how we learn and communicate. Christina has represented the world’s and Canada’s libraries at UN forums including the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Internet Governance Forum\, and is a member of copyright and ebook leadership groups for libraries in Canada and internationally. She is the co-author\, with Paul Whitney\, of Trade eBooks in Libraries: The Changing Landscape (DeGruyter\, 2017)\, and is a frequent speaker on issues related to libraries\, information and the digital world.\n\n\nSarah Nguyễn is a PhD student at the University of Washington’s Information School. Sarah investigates information infrastructures & information disorder among immigrant diaspora and non-English communities. They apply theory into practice at the intersections of information & media infrastructures\, information disorder\, embodied memories\, archival studies\, Asian American studies\, & immigrant studies. Grounded in Black and Asian technocultures with feminist practices of care\, Sarah centers contextual\, archival\, qualitative\, and community participatory methodologies alongside social media analysis. Currently\, Sarah contributes to the NSF Rapid Response Research with UW Center for an Informed Public about problematic information discourses within the Vietnamese and Latine diaspora; and to the AfterLab about community archives in response to COVID-19. Her research has been featured in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review\, VICE\, BuzzFeed News\, KUOW Public Radio\, NPR\, Saigon Broadcasting Television Network\, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight\, and InDance magazine.\n\n\nDivyani Motla is a PhD Candidate at the Department of History\, University of Toronto; also affiliated with the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her research explores connected transnational histories and articulations of religion and power\, with a focus on Sikh ethno-nationalism\, in India and Canada. Divyani is a Lead Editor with the Jamhoor collective\, a Left media organisation based in Toronto focusing on South Asia and the South Asian diaspora in North America; and Editor of the Past Tense Graduate Review of History\, a journal housed in the Department of History at University of Toronto.\n\nThis event intends to bring together experts in the field to discuss culturally- and community-specific ways to understand and address the spread of mis- and dis-information. It is organized in partnership with the Digital Democracies Institute at SFU; the University of British Columbia’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions; the Centre for Media\, Technology and Democracy at McGill University; Toronto Metropolitan University’s Leadership Lab; and the Centre for Law\, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/digital-policy-rounds-mis-disinformation-and-the-question-of-authenticity/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies Speaker Series - Chris Gilliard
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer\, professor\, and speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy\, surveillance\, and the intersections of race\, class\, and technology. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education. His writings have been featured in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Wired Magazine\, the Chronicle of Higher Ed\, and Vice Magazine. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center\, a member of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Scholars Council\, and a member of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project community advisory board. Gilliard is a member of the inaugural (2022 – 2024) cohort of the Just Tech Fellowship. \nThe 2023 Data Fluencies Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California\, the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Program and the Digital Democracies Institute. \nContact ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-chris-gilliard/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Crisis Media\, or Some Afterthoughts on Documentary’s Expanded Fields | Presented by Jihoon Kim
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers some afterthoughts on Jihoon Kim’s recent book Documentary’s Expanded Fields in relation to his current book project entitled Crisis Media: Expansion of Media in the Precarious 21st Century. This project develops the concept of ‘crisis media’ as an array of media practices and formations that function as both to cause and to respond to various regional and planetary crises encompassing climate change\, civil wars and protests\, extraction of resources and labor\, and the epistemological and ontological crises imposed by the computational forms of control and governmentality. He argues that a crucial aspect of ‘crisis media\,’ more than their ambivalent relationships to nature and the human\, lies in the ways that they fundamentally challenge what media are and how they work\, and that it is in this sense that they must be considered as ‘media-critical\,’ or\, marking a turning point in thinking of the concept and existence of media. In delineating the three aspects of ‘crisis media\,’ I also present a set of preliminary thoughts on the broader implications that they have to the concepts of truth\, evidence\, and agency that underlie both traditional and emerging forms of documentary cinema. \n Jihoon Kim is professor of cinema and media studies at Chung-ang University. He is the author of Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (Oxford University Press\, 2022) and Between Film\, Video\, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2018/16. Currently he is finalizing Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema\, 1982-2022\, the first English-language monograph on the subject\, as well as Crisis Media: Expansion of Media in the Precarious 21st Century.   \nDate/Time: April 11\, 2023 at 6 pm \nLocation: SFU Harbour Centre Room 1800 \nContact ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/crisis-media-or-some-afterthoughts-on-documentarys-expanded-fields-presented-by-jihoon-kim/
LOCATION:SFU Harbour Centre Room 1800
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SUMMARY:Garth Davies presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Garth Davies is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. His current work involves developing a database for evaluating programs for countering violent extremism; the social psychology of radicalization; and the statistical modeling and projection of violent right-wing extremism. He has also been involved in the development of the Terrorism and Extremism Network Extractor (TENE)\, a web-crawler designed to investigate extremist activities on the internet. The crawler is presently being adapted to examine violent extremism on the dark net. Dr. Davies earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for Zoom link and details.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/garth-davies-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies Speaker Series - Fallon Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Fallon Wilson from the Black Tech Futures Research Institute will present on the Black Tech Ecosystem Index. \nAbout Dr. Wilson: \nThrough her work with non-profits\, academia\, and government partnerships\, Dr. Fallon S. Wilson\nstrives to make visible the work of historic and modern-day Black crises solvers. As the Lead\nPrincipal Investigator for #BlackTechFutures Research Institute\, which she co-founded with Melissa\nBrown-Sims\, M.A.\, Fallon engages in community action that creates change in her community and\nacross the US. The Institute’s work\, funded in part by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s\n2020 Open Knowledge grant\, builds a national network of city-based researchers and practitioners\nconducting research on sustainable local Black tech ecosystems\, especially within underrepresented\ncommunities. Fallon serves as the Vice President of Policy for the Multicultural Media and\nTelecommunication Internet Council (MMTC) through which she launched a national campaign\,\n“Black Churches 4 Digital Equity\,” to support digital access in Black communities. The campaign\nwas so successful that she launched a national faith based civic tech fellowship\, “Black Churches for\nDigital Equity.”\nAdditionally\, Fallon’s research on first-generation Black college students’ alternative tech pathways\nand Black tech ecosystems has garnered notable research grants from the Kapor Center\, the\nKauffman Foundation\, and the Ford Foundation\, among others. Her TEDx–Nashville presentation of\nStop Ignoring Black Women and Hear of Our Tech Prophecies eloquently addresses the intersection\nof historical reality for Black women\, spirituality\, and technology. Fallon holds a Bachelor of Arts in\nPolitical Science from Spelman College and a Master of Arts in Political Science and a Doctor of\nPhilosophy in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. \nThis presentation is part of the Data Fluencies Speaker Series\, co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California and the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Program. \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-fallon-wilson/
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SUMMARY:Elisha Lim presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Elisha Lim\, is a Provost Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice\, where they are working on a book that connects social media algorithms to piety and pious conduct. Lim is also an award-winning claymation filmmaker and graphic novelist\, and their community-based art practice has been extensively documented by longitudinal scholarly studies and Duke University Press monographs. \nThe Original Platform: The East India Company \nElisha Lim will explain how The East India Company (EIC) is the predecessor to modern digital platforms (like Alphabet\, Amazon\, Meta\, Apple\, Microsoft\, Baidu\, Alibaba\, and Tencent). Lim will focus on the case study of the Company’s operations in their hometown of Singapore\, in order to combine Platform Studies with Southeast Asian history and colonial scholarship. Lim will adopt four elements of a platform in order to outline how the East India Company is the blueprint of modern platforms: 1) Platform: EIC’s treaties and charters; 2) Complementors: European shipping companies\, plantation owners etc.; 3) Application programming interfaces: roads\, monetary systems\, etc.\, and 4) Software development kits: the spread of racist views and tactics through media\, literature\, philosophy and culture. This talk will underscore the indispensability of colonial frameworks to Platform Studies.  \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/elisha-lim-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230510T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230510T133000
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies Speaker Series - Kim Gallon
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book\, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press\, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression\, agency\, and identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Gallon is also the author of the field defining article\, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.\n\nThis speaker series is co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California\, the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Program and the Digital Democracies Institute.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-kim-gallon/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230517T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230517T160000
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SUMMARY:Liz Canner presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning media artist Liz Canner has produced many documentaries and transmedia projects that investigate social and environmental in/justice issues.  She often utilizes emerging technologies to interrogate mainstream narratives\, explore new language for communication and inspire user engagement. Her critically acclaimed interactive documentary Symphony of A City\, explores the housing crisis from a new perspective. Orgasm Inc.\, a NY Times “Critic’s Pick”\, investigates the pharmaceutical industry. Lost City of Mer\, an award-winning smartphone app and VR experience\, uses a unique living narrative structure to immerse players in a mysterious underwater civilization devastated by climate change. Canner has received over 60 awards and honors including a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship\, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard\, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Canner’s award-winning films have been theatrically released\, shown extensively on the international festival circuit\, streamed on Netflix (“Most Popular”) and Kanopy (“Most Popular”) and broadcast on PBS\, cable stations and internationally in many countries. \nPixel Pleasures and Human Disasters\n\nDuring her interactive talk at SFU\, award winning media artist Liz Canner will discuss her work\, process\, and the history of cyber-democracy. This includes how she chased down orgasm disease-mongers\, uncovered decades of ritualized violence on college campuses\, had her investigative work on police brutality censored\, and built a fantastical underwater lost civilization devastated by climate change – all in the pursuit of using media as a tool for social and environmental justice. She’ll go into her use of emerging technologies to challenge dominant paradigms and deconstruct power dynamics while exploring its potential for inspiring user action and positive change.  The research questions she’ll be exploring while on campus will also be discussed. \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/liz-canner-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230606T123000
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SUMMARY:Indrek Ibrus presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Indrek Ibrus is a Professor of Media Innovation at Tallinn University’s (TLU) Baltic Film\, Media and Arts School (BFM)\, Estonia. He also curates BFM’s doctoral program. His research interests include media innovation\, the evolution of the ubiquitous spatial internet\, the emergence of contemporary metadata formats for audiovisual culture and industries\, the broader evolution of modern creative industries\, and the implications of cultural heritage digitization. He is currently principal investigator in the Estonian government-funded research project “Public Value of Open Cultural Data” and a work-package leader of CresCine\, a Horizon Europe funded multi-year project improving the conditions for Europe’s small film countries. He has been a co-editor (together with Carlos A. Scolari) of Crossmedia Innovations (Peter Lang\, 2012)\, editor of Emergence of Cross-Innovation Systems (Emerald\, 2019) and co-author (with John Hartley and Maarja Ojamaa) of On the Digital Semiosphere (Bloomsbury\, 2020). He is currently editing also research journal Baltic Screen Media Review. \n  \nThe Public Value of Media Data: Conceptualizations and Ways of Measuring\n \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Ibrus will be reporting on the work of their ongoing multi-year research project (https://publicvalueofdata.tlu.ee/) that studies the complex ways in which open data solutions in media and cultural sectors could generate ‘public value’. In conceptual terms\, it builds on existing research traditions on (public) value creation\, links these to work on innovation systems in media industries and investigates how new open data technologies such as the linked data and blockchains could be seen as conditioning the emergence of new kinds of “media innovation systems”. They have been studying existing data management systems to interpret how public service media institutions generate public value. But they are also developing new systems for them enabling them to do it even better. They are also collaborating with various startups experimenting with public blockchains in order to decentralize online media economies and generate public value again in different ways. That is\, this project has been conceptual\, empirical\, and interventionist. It is also highly interdisciplinary as it combines network science and data science with media and innovation economics\, media and communications studies\, and cultural semiotics. The presentation will discuss their research results as well as their emergent conceptualizations of ‘public value’ in the era of media datafication.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/indrek-ibrus-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Dr. Roopa Vasudevan presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry\n\nArtists working with emerging technologies are often depicted as existing “outside” of the technology industry\, both by scholars exploring technology and society as well as within their own perceptions of themselves and their output. Their works are alternately positioned as innovations\, diagnostics and correctives; they are frequently depicted as carrying unique perspectives that do not exist within the technology industry otherwise. However\, these artists are very much subject to the norms and limitations inherent to digital technology. The protocols and ideologies of the industry have a sizable impact on the work artists can make; how they are able to share and preserve it; and even how they envision their broader cultural roles.\n\nThis project examines the relationships between new media artists—practitioners who see themselves expanding\, reinventing\, or misusing technological expression—and the industry that controls the tools\, resources\, and protocols necessary for their work. I demonstrate that new media artists are heavily bound up in the workings of the contemporary tech industry\, in both material and ideological ways. Drawing on theories of art worlds\, scientific infrastructure and creative labor\, I argue that the power and impact that the tech industry exerts on almost every facet of contemporary life also guides\, influences and shapes the creative possibilities and conventions that new media artists are able to harness in their practices. Additionally\, using the concept of the imagined affordance\, I make the case that\, rather than operating externally to the industry\, these artists are seen as a vital resource due to their perceived ability to envision uses for emerging technologies that elude the capabilities of traditional engineers and developers. Through this revised subject position\, I argue that we can gain a more nuanced understanding of where and how the tech industry exerts control over culture and creative practice\, allowing for a re-conceptualization of how art can challenge the dominance of technical systems.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/dr-roopa-vasudevan-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Dr. Judy Radul presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Judy Radul’s video installations often incorporate an original computer-controlled motion choreography and playback system for live and pre-recorded video. Recent exhibitions include: Dazibao\, Montreal\, 2023; Gwangju Biennale\, 2021; Albertinum Museum\, Dresden\, 2021; Kunstinstitute Melly\, Rotterdam\, 2017. Her large-scale media installation World Rehearsal Court (2009) has been shown in Vancouver\, Vienna\, Seoul\, Oslo and Moscow. She has published two books with Sternberg Press Berlin: A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology\, Law and Aesthetics\, 2011 co-edited with Marit Paasche\, and This Is Television\, 2018. Radul received a B.A in Fine and Performing Arts\, Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver\, 1991 and Master of Visual and Media Arts\, Bard College\, New York\, 2000. She is Professor of Visual Art at SFU School for Contemporary Arts. She lives in Berlin and Vancouver (unceded Tsleil-Waututh\, Skwxwú7mesh and Musqueam lands) and is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery\, Vancouver. https://cargocollective.com/judyradul \n  \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/dr-judy-radul-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Lyn Bartram presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lyn Bartram’s work explores the intersecting potential of interactive technologies\, visual analytics and computational media from both theoretical and applied perspectives\, particularly to better support data-enabled thinking beyond the traditional applications of expert data science. She works in both standard and practice-based research methods in applications related to data visualization\, personal visual analytics\, computational sustainability\, and computational aesthetics.\n\nA computer scientist by training\, she engages extensively with data practitioners at all levels of competence and discipline through her work as Director of VIVA\, the Vancouver Institute of Visual Analytics. VIVA is an interdisciplinary university  institute with the mandate to educate\, foster research collaboration and enhance literacy around data-driven thinking\, visual analytics and exploratory data analysis. Our audiences and collaborators are both internal to the university and the external  community\, spanning a wide scope of disciplines\, domains (e.g. health\, finance\, governance\, research\, scientists and entrepreneurs) and levels of expertise.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/lyn-bartram-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:DDI Fall Speaker Series - Dr. Susan Erikson
DESCRIPTION:DDI Fall Speaker Series\, 6th September from 12:30- 1:30pm PST \nDr. Susan Erikson\, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and DDI Fluencies Faculty Fellow \nDr. Erikson studies highly complex political and economic systems that shape human health experiences. She is a medical anthropologist who has worked in Africa\, Europe\, Central Asia\, and North America. During an earlier international affairs career\, Dr. Erikson first lived in an eastern Sierra Leonean village for two years before working with government departments and foreign affairs organizations on foreign policy and trade issues. As an academic\, she combines her practical experience with a critical study of global political economy of health. Her work has been published in Nature\, The Lancet\, BMJ\, Medical Anthropology\, Medical Anthropology Quarterly\, Social Science & Medicine\, Global Public Health\, Critical Public Health\, Anthropologica and others. Media quoting/citing her work include Nature\, The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, Wired\, Al Bawaba and others. \nThis is a hybrid event. \nEmail: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link. \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-fall-speaker-series-susan-erikson/
LOCATION:DDI/ zoom
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SUMMARY:From General Intellect to General Imagination by Dr. Sean Cubitt
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Dr. Sean Cubitt\, 25th September from 4:00- 5:30pm PST \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis 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. He has completed 31 PhD supervisions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an in- person event at Harbour Centre 1500\, SFU Downtown campus. \nEmail: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-fallon-wilson-jurnell-cockhren/
LOCATION:DDI/ zoom
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SUMMARY:Data Fall Speaker Series - Dr. Fallon Wilson & Jurnell Cockhren
DESCRIPTION:Data Fluencies Speaker Series\, 4th October from 12:30- 1:30pm PST \nFallon Wilson & Jurnell Cockhren (Black Tech Futures Institute)  \nDr. Fallon Wilson is the vice president of policy at the Multicultural Media and Telecommunication Internet Council (MMTC) where she launched a national campaign\, Black Churches 4 Broadband to support digital access in black communities. She is also the co-founder of #BlackTechFutures Research Institute which is funded by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s 2020 Open Knowledge grant. #BlackTechFutures Research Institute builds a national network of city-based researchers and practitioners conducting research on sustainable local black tech ecosystems. Prior to launching the #BlackTechFutures Research Institute\, Dr. Wilson was the former research director for Black Tech Mecca where she developed the SMART Black Tech Ecosystem Assessment Framework. As a member of the Federal Communications Commission’s Communications Equity and Diversity Council\, Dr. Wilson chairs the Digital Inclusion & Anchor Institution Subgroup. Dr. Wilson is a 2019 TEDx Speaker (e.g. Stop Ignoring Black Women and Hear of Our Tech Prophecies). \nJurnell Cockhren has over a decade of experience in creating and contributing to open source software\, Jurnell has worked in various fields\, including neuroscience\, optics and astronomy. Jurnell acts as the CTO of Black Science Network\, and Instructor at the Nashville Software School. In 2012\, Jurnell founded Sophicware\, a Tech Firm and Think Tank. It’s mission: to enable the general public with computing tools that enables them to contribute to solving problems they encounter in their communities everyday. \n  \nThis is a hybrid event. \nEmail: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link. \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-fall-speaker-series-dr-susan-erikson/
LOCATION:DDI/ zoom
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SUMMARY:DDI Fall Speaker Series - Dr. Kate Henessey
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Dr. Kate Henessey and PhD student Brett Gaylor\, 1st November from 12:30- 1:30pm PST \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Kate is an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab at School of Interactive Arts and Technology\, SFU where the research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage. Her multimedia and art works and investigate documentary methodologies to address Indigenous and settler histories of place and space. She is a founding member of the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective\, which has curated exhibitions and projects at the intersection of anthropology and contemporary art since 2009. In 2017\, she was awarded the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC’s Early in Career Award\, which recognizes the contributions to the non-academic community made by faculty members who are at an early point in their careers. \nBrett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and interactive producer.  His interactive series Do Not Track is the recipient of the International Documentary Association award for best nonfiction series\, the 2016 Peabody Award\, and the Prix Gemaux for Best Interactive Series. His short OK Google  animated a year of his son Rowan’s accidental voice searches and received the 2019 Webby Award. His 2008 feature Rip! A Remix Manifesto was the recipient of audience choice prizes at festivals from Amsterdam to South Africa\, broadcast in 20 countries\, and seen by millions of people worldwide on Netflix\, Hulu and The Pirate Bay. His most recent project Discriminator premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival\, 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. \nEmail: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-fall-speaker-series-dr-kate-henessey/
LOCATION:DDI/ zoom
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SUMMARY:DDI Fall Speaker Series - Aaron Mendon- Plasek (Yale University)
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Aaron Mendon- Plasek\, 6th December from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT \n\nAaron is a historian of science and technology. His work examines how schemes of quantification\, including their material\, cultural\, and institutional instantiations\, have been used to imagine\, enact\, and justify social order. His first book project offers a revisionist history of machine learning\, from WWII to the present\, that demonstrates how and why it became thinkable and subsequently “reasonable” for learning machines and machine learning strategies\, rooted in conceptions of creativity and human judgment\, to adjudicate social questions in the 21st century. Prior to getting his PhD\, he curated art exhibitions and wrote poetry\, essays\, & criticism. He’s the Knight Digital Public Sphere Fellow at the Information Society Project\, and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Prior to this he held competitive fellowships at Columbia as a GSAS Teaching Scholar Fellow (2021-22)\, a Contemporary Preceptor Fellow in the Columbia Core (2020-21)\, and a Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (2015-2020). This is a hybrid event. \n\nEmail: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-fall-speaker-series-aaron-mendon-plasek-yale-university/
LOCATION:DDI/ zoom
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SUMMARY:DDI Spring Speaker Series - Dr. Victoria Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Victoria E. Thomas\, 10th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT \nDr. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Media and Public Engagement in the School of Communication. As an interdisciplinary scholar of Black Popular Cultural Studies\, she primarily analyzes popular media to articulate how visual culture represents Blackness and Black identities. Her research is committed to political and civic engagement\, diversity\, and inclusion in public institutions to transform societal conditions. Dr. Thomas’ current research examines the communication practices of Black cisgender and transgender women in our contemporary media moment of hypervisibility of Black transgender women and intersectional feminism. \nThis is a hybrid event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-victoria-thomas/
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SUMMARY:DDI Spring Speaker Series - Dr. Wendy Wong
DESCRIPTION:“We\, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age” \nPresentation by Wendy H. Wong\, 24th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT \nHuman rights are one of the major innovations of the 20th century. Their emergence after World War II and global uptake promised a new world of universalized humanity in which human dignity would be protected\, and individuals would have agency and flourish. The proliferation of digital data (i.e. datafication) and its intertwining with our lives\, coupled with the growth of AI\, signals a fundamental shift in the human experience. Data are “sticky.” Human rights remain our best hope for ensuring essential human values that have come to be accepted internationally\, but we have to account for how sticky data affect our conceptions of values like autonomy\, dignity\, equality\, and community.. This talk will explore some of the ways data stickiness affects our lives\, and make a case for the urgency of a human right to data literacy. \nDr. Wong is Professor of Political Science and Principal’s Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. She is an international relations scholar with expertise in global governance\, human rights\, civil society\, and AI/Big Data. She is the author of We\, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age\,published this fall by MIT Press. Wong is the author of two other award-winning books\, dozens of academic articles and chapters\, and contributes to outlets such as CBC\, The Globe and Mail\, and the Conversation. Previously\, she was at the University of Toronto\, where she was Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Civil Society. She’s the proud mom of two intrepid boys\, a dog\, and more houseplants than are practical. \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-dr-wendy-wong/
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SUMMARY:DDI Spring Speaker Series - Dr. Nick Vincent
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Nick Vincent\, 7th February from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT \nDr. Vincent received his PhD from Northwestern University’s  Technology and Social Behavior  program (a joint degree in computer science and communication)\, where he worked in the People\, Space\, and Algorithms Research Group. During graduate school\, he was a research intern at Snap and Microsoft. Before graduate school\, he studied electrical engineering at UCLA. He was previously a postdoc working with the Computational Communication Research Lab at UC Davis and the  Social Futures Lab  at the University of Washington. \nHis research focuses on studying the relationship between human-generated data and modern computing technologies\, including systems often referred to as “AI”. The overarching goal of this research agenda is to work towards an ecosystem of widely beneficial\, highly capable AI technologies that mitigate inequalities in wealth and power rather than exacerbating them. I believe working to make people aware of the value of their data contributions can help achieve this goal. My work relates to concepts such as  “data dignity”\,  “data as labor”\,  “data leverage”\, and  “data dividends”. \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-dr-nick-vincent-2/
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SUMMARY:DDI Spring Speaker Series - Dr. Peter Ives
DESCRIPTION:“Social Media as a Failed Free Expression Experiment” \nPresentation by Peter Ives\, 6th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT \nThe talk will argue that “free speech” controversies are increasingly unresolvable not because people have differing commitments to the principle of free speech\, but because they have incompatible underlying rationales for why speech should be free. The rise of social media has restructured the nature of public discussion; however\, I argue that it is not so much the new technology but instead legal structures\, social and economic exigencies and political ideals that are central to understanding the contemporary characteristics of social media. I examine how many legal scholars and policy makers including those with strong commitments to the US First Amendment and Canada’s Charter Rights of Free Expression are coming to understand that such constitutional tools are outmoded when trying to address the misogyny\, racism\, xenophobia\, anti-semitism\, transphobia\, and other forms of hatred that plague social media. \nPeter Ives is professor of Political Science teaching primarily political theory. He was born and raised in Colorado\, has a B.A. in Political Science from Reed College\, Portland\, Oregon; and an MA and PhD in Social & Political Thought from York University in Toronto. He is author of Gramsci’s Politics of Language (2004) and Language and Hegemony in Gramsci (2004)\, and co-editor with Rocco Lacorte of Gramsci\, Language and Translation (2010). He has published in Rethinking Marxism\, Political Studies\, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and Language Policy. He has researched and written extensively on the politics of “global English” and bridging the disciplines of language policy and political theory. He has contributed articles to The Conversation on free speech and academic freedom. He was on the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism for a decade and on the editorial collective of ARP (Arbeiter Ring Press) for many years. He is active in the University of Winnipeg Faculty Association. His writings have been translated into Italian\, Turkish\, Chinese\, German and Portuguese. \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-dr-peter-ives/
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SUMMARY:DDI Spring Speaker Series - Dr. Jon Corbett
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Jon Corbett\, 13th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT \nDr. Corbett received his BFA at the University of Alberta\, and MFA and Ph.D.\, at UBC Okanagan. During his studies\, he developed his career as an application developer\, focussing on centralized and de-centralized large-scale data repository and logistics web portals for UPS. Through his Ph.D.\, he continued the exploration of viewing technology skills as an artistic practice\, resulting in my creation of the “acimow/Cree#” programming language for nehiyaw (Plains Cree)\, a specialized application for nehiyawewin learning\, a nehiyaw keyboard\, and the development of an Indigenous Computing Framework that proposes Storywork as a scaffold for programming computers using Indigenous languages. Before joining SFU\, he was also a sessional faculty member at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies\, teaching topics in Digital Media\, Virtual Worlds\, and Visual Communication. \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-dr-jon-corbett/
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SUMMARY:DDI Spring Speaker Series - Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Sheelagh Carpendale\, 3rd April from 12:30- 1:30pm PST \nDr. Carpendale is a professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University\, where she holds an NSERC/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She was previously a professor at University of Calgary\, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/AITF/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She directs the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) research group. At University of Calgary\, she founded the interdisciplinary graduate group\, Computational Media Design. Her research on information visualization\, large interactive displays\, and new media art. She completed her BSc. and Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University and studied Visual Arts at Sheridan College\, School of Design and Emily Carr\, College of Art. \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-dr-sheelagh-carpendale/
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SUMMARY:DDI Summer Speaker Series - Dr. Adel Iskandar
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Adel Iskandar\, 1st May from 12:30- 1:30pm PST. \nDr. Iskandar presented a talk at the institute titled\, “Revolution By Any Memes: Innovation and Irrevance in Digital Egypt”. He is the Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby\, Canada. He is the author\, co-author\, and editor of several works including “Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution” (AUCP/OUP); “Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism” (Basic Books); “Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation” (University of California Press); “Mediating the Arab Uprisings” (Tadween Publishing); and “Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring” (Palgrave Macmillan). Iskandar’s work deals with media\, identity and politics; and he has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His forthcoming publications are two monographs\, one addressing the political role of memes and digital satire and the other about contemporary forms of imperial transculturalism. Iskandar’s engaged participatory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as “Jadaliyya” and academic podcasting such as “Status.” His community research agenda involves showcasing local grassroots participatory creative production by communities in the Middle East to confront the rise of extremism. His work also involves the autobiographical documentation and self-representation of Syrian newcomer women in the Lower Mainland illustrates their ingenuity in the face adversity. Prior to his arrival at SFU\, he taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication\, Culture\, and Technology Program at Georgetown University\, in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-summer-speaker-series-dr-adel-iskandar/
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies Speaker Series - Dr. Marisa Parham
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Marisa Parham\, 5th June from 12:30- 1:30pm PST \nDr. Parham is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park\, where as P.I. she directs the African American Digital and Experimental Humanities initiative (AADHUM) and NarraSpace\, an immersive storytelling lab focused on BIPoc experiences. She is also associate director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)\, and holds affiliate faculty appointments in African-American and Africana Studies\, in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, the program in Immersive Media and Design\, and in the program in Comparative Literature. She will be joining as part of the annual team meeting for the Data Fluencies project\, generously funded and supported by the Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-dr-marisa-parham/
LOCATION:DDI/ zoom
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