Events

DDI Fall Speaker Series, 6th September from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and DDI Fluencies Faculty Fellow Dr. Erikson studies highly complex political and […]

Presentation by Dr. Sean Cubitt, 25th September from 4:00- 5:30pm PST His research links film and media studies with ecocriticism, technological, aesthetic, economic and political history, and the media arts […]

Data Fluencies Speaker Series, 4th October from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Fallon Wilson & Jurnell Cockhren (Black Tech Futures Institute)  Dr. Fallon Wilson is the vice president of policy at the Multicultural Media […]

Presentation by Dr. Kate Henessey and PhD student Brett Gaylor, 1st November from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. Kate is an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture […]

Presentation by Aaron Mendon- Plasek, 6th December from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Aaron is a historian of science and technology. His work examines how schemes of quantification, including their material, cultural, […]

Presentation by Victoria E. Thomas, 10th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Media and Public Engagement in the School of Communication. As an interdisciplinary […]

"We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" Presentation by Wendy H. Wong, 24th January from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Human rights are one of the major innovations of the […]

Presentation by Nick Vincent, 7th February from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. 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 […]

"Social Media as a Failed Free Expression Experiment" Presentation by Peter Ives, 6th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT The 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 […]

Presentation by Jon Corbett, 13th March from 12:30- 1:30pm PDT Dr. 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., […]

Presentation by Sheelagh Carpendale, 3rd April from 12:30- 1:30pm PST Dr. 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 […]

Presentation by Adel Iskandar, 1st May from 12:30- 1:30pm PST. Dr. 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 […]