Panel 106 - Literary Intelligence, Artificial Learning: Language, Media, and Machines AI is changing the way we inhabit the world, but we cannot understand how without exploring the intersection of computation with language and culture. Experts working on the languages, histories, and materialities of AI consider the language and media through which we understand our […]
Panel 294 - Data Privacy Now: A Public Conversation about Private Information During the COVID-19 global pandemic, institutions have turned to technology-driven solutions to alleviate public health risk. From the classroom to committee meetings, “remote” work and school required the rapid introduction of new technologies with little time to consider issues of data privacy for ourselves […]
Maite Taboada is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at SFU. Her research combines discourse analysis and computational linguistics, with an emphasis on discourse relations and sentiment analysis. Current work focuses on the analysis of online comments, drawing insights from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and big data. Other projects include a study of fake news […]
Cierra Robson is the Associate Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab at Princeton University where she guides research teams in partnership with community organizations to explore how data can be retooled for racial justice. Additionally, Cierra is a doctoral student in the Sociology and Social Policy program at Harvard University where she […]
Christine Tomlinson is a social science lecturer and researcher at the University of California, Irvine and a research assistant with the Digital Democracies Institute. Christine’s work is primarily focused on video games and considers player experiences, interests, and backgrounds as well as hostilities both in gaming spaces and online cultures more broadly.