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 […]

AI and Disinformation: State-Aligned Information Operations and the Distortion of the Public Sphere Courtney 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 […]

University of Waterloo - Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6 to 9 p.m. online in three parts | Register now Have you ever observed a divisive, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background? In her most recent book, Discriminating Data (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data […]

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 […]

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 Register for Zoom link here! Or watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gx3SrPAWW1g In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. […]

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 […]

Discriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun Register for the event here. In 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. […]

Wendy Chun at UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Seminar. Register here.

Markets, Architectures, Norms, or Law? Regulating Automated Face Recognition in Canada Yuan (“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 […]

Jonathan Beller is a Professor of Humanities & Media Studies at the Pratt Institute. One 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 […]

Book Conversation: Discriminating Data by Wendy Chun In dialogue with Yuk Hui  Thu 10 March 2022, 5pm PST / Fri 11 March 2022, 9am HKT Online Event: Register to join via Zoom Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/304BhrtRH  In this event, Wendy Chun will discuss her latest book Discriminating Data (2021, MIT Press) in conversation with Yuk Hui.  In Discriminating Data, Chun reveals […]

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 […]