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In her 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 […]

What does feminist data science look like? What is feminist data science? How is feminist thinking being incorporated into data-driven work? And how are scholars in the humanities and social […]

Sheelagh Carpendale from Simon Fraser University's School of Computing Science presents to the DDI. Her research interests include: information visualization, interaction design, large display interaction, visual analytics, personal visualization, human […]

Taming Big Tech: Exploring the Alternatives - How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in Canada Wendy Chun in conversation with Andrew Clement. Wendy Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair […]

In Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she […]

Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]