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SUMMARY:Jodi Byrd presents to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Indigenomicon.\n\nJodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma\, Associate Professor of English and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Byrd is the author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2011) and their work has appeared most recently in Social Text\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and in Joanne Barker’s Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (Duke UP\, 2017).
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/jodi-byrd-presents-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Monthly Institute Team Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/monthly-institute-team-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy is Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago - Lecture 1
DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been held by some of the world’s most renowned scholars. The CI Professor is in residence at the University of Chicago for an academic quarter\, where he or she teaches a graduate seminar and offers two public lectures. \nIn Spring 2021 we are proud to welcome Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature\, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016)\, and coauthor of Pattern Discrimination (2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor. \nSpring Seminar: Critical Data Studies\n(with guest Carina Albrecht) \n4/28 to 5/31: Mon. and Wed.\, 10:30am–1:20pm\nThe massive collection of data\, we are told\, changes everything. It’s allegedly the new oil\, the new resource to be exploited\, as well as the new hidden\, “real” layer behind all media. It transforms the creative practice\, public sphere\, scholarship\, and intimate relationships by making them “data-driven.” It raises the specter of absolute surveillance and vacuum-sealed echo chambers\, all in the name of giving users the commodities\, friendships\, and security they really want. To explore the possibilities and limitations of the “data turn”––this course asks: what difference does the mass capture\, storage\, correlation\, and analysis of data make to society\, culture\, media\, ethics and politics? How does it affect fundamental concepts\, such as reality\, agency\, identity\, verification\, and temporality?  It will answer these questions by exploring four key terms\, such as correlation\, authenticity\, recognition\, and neighborhoods\, from historical\, critical theory\, and technical perspectives. It will also encourage students to contribute to the burgeoning field of Critical Data Studies by exploring and experimenting with unusual interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborations. \nInterested students must send a paragraph stating their interest to Critical Inquiry at cisubmissions@gmail.com. \nPublic Lectures\n\nPublic Lecture 1: Beyond Verification: Authenticity and Mis/Disinformation\nThat fake news has affected recent political events in the US and abroad has become a truism; the sense that combating fake news entails more than fact checking and verification similarly has become accepted wisdom. So how do we understand and respond to fake news? This talk will map out different approaches to fake news in diverse disciplines/sectors\, and outline a response that focuses on understanding why and how users find information to be true regardless of its facticity. Framing fake news as an intermedial narrative\, it will outline an approach based in dramatic/literary conceptions of authenticity. \nFriday\, 7 May\, 6pm CST: Sign up for the virtual event here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-is-critical-inquiry-visiting-professor-at-the-university-of-chicago-lecture-1/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210512T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210512T113000
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SUMMARY:Kavita Philip talks to the Lab
DESCRIPTION:Kavita Philip is President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures as Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures. She was previously Professor of History & Informatics (by courtesy) at UC Irvine. She is author of Civilizing Natures (Rutgers University Press)\, and co-editor of five volumes curating interdisciplinary work in radical history\, political science\, art\, activism\, gender\, technology studies\, and public policy. \nDiverse articles and public writing engage with colonial history\, postcolonial studies\, histories of environment and technology\, feminist activism\, and science fiction studies. Forthcoming books include Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction: The Pirate Function and Decolonization (under contract\, MIT Press).
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/kavita-philip-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210519T103000
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SUMMARY:Luciana Parisi speaks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Details tbd
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/luciana-parisi-speaks-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210520T090000
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SUMMARY:Thinking With | David Theo Goldberg | Tracking capitalism and the technologies of the racial
DESCRIPTION:We invite David Theo Goldberg\, a scholar whose deep thinking about race and critical race theory (which examines how legal frameworks create\, but can also correct injustices based on race)\, has informed and accompanied counter-colonizing thinkers such as Philomena Essed\, Achille Mbembe\, and Gloria Wekker. Goldberg will be in conversation with: Rokhaya Diallo; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; and Nishant Shah\, moderated by Wayne Modest. \nOn the event of Goldberg’s forthcoming publication on Dread: The Politics of Our Time\, as part of both our Thinking With and Race\, Racism\, Antiracism – What can/should museum do?\, we invite Goldberg to return\, through his most recent critical approaches\, to a question for which one of his books is titled: Are We All Postracial Yet? (2015).
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/thinking-with-david-theo-goldberg-tracking-capitalism-and-the-technologies-of-the-racial/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Wendy is Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago - Lecture 2
DESCRIPTION:Since 2003\, the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been held by some of the world’s most renowned scholars. The CI Professor is in residence at the University of Chicago for an academic quarter\, where he or she teaches a graduate seminar and offers two public lectures. \nIn Spring 2021 we are proud to welcome Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature\, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016)\, and coauthor of Pattern Discrimination (2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor. \nSpring Seminar: Critical Data Studies\n(with guest Carina Albrecht) \n4/28 to 5/31: Mon. and Wed.\, 10:30am–1:20pm\nThe massive collection of data\, we are told\, changes everything. It’s allegedly the new oil\, the new resource to be exploited\, as well as the new hidden\, “real” layer behind all media. It transforms the creative practice\, public sphere\, scholarship\, and intimate relationships by making them “data-driven.” It raises the specter of absolute surveillance and vacuum-sealed echo chambers\, all in the name of giving users the commodities\, friendships\, and security they really want. To explore the possibilities and limitations of the “data turn”––this course asks: what difference does the mass capture\, storage\, correlation\, and analysis of data make to society\, culture\, media\, ethics and politics? How does it affect fundamental concepts\, such as reality\, agency\, identity\, verification\, and temporality?  It will answer these questions by exploring four key terms\, such as correlation\, authenticity\, recognition\, and neighborhoods\, from historical\, critical theory\, and technical perspectives. It will also encourage students to contribute to the burgeoning field of Critical Data Studies by exploring and experimenting with unusual interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborations. \nInterested students must send a paragraph stating their interest to Critical Inquiry at cisubmissions@gmail.com. \nPublic Lectures\n\nPublic Lecture 2: Critical Data Studies\nData\, we’re told over and over again\, defines the twenty-first century. It’s allegedly the new oil\, the new resource to be exploited\, as well as the new hidden\, “real” layer behind all media. It raises the specter of absolute surveillance and vacuum-sealed echo chambers\, all in the name of giving users the commodities\, friendships\, and security they really want. To displace these visions\, this talk addresses the possibilities for cross-disciplinary and cross-sector collaboration and investigations. It will take as its case study “neighborhoods.” \nFriday\, 21 May\, 6pm CST: Sign up for the virtual event here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-is-critical-inquiry-visiting-professor-at-the-university-of-chicago-lecture-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Digital Media Workshop: White Supremacy\, Affect\, and Digital Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Media Workshop will be hosting Christine Goding-Doty and Tara McPherson on May 24 for a panel about White Supremacy\, Affect\, and Digital Culture\, moderated by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.\n\nChristine Goding Doty\, Visiting Assistant Professor\, Africana Studies\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges – Christine Goding-Doty is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Previously\, she was an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities and the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There she was a member of the 2018-2020 cohort of Mellon Fellows convened around the theme “Truth\, Fact\, and Ways of Knowing.” Dr. Goding-Doty received her PhD in African American Studies from Northwestern University in 2018. In the course of her study she also spent three years in cotutelle at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.\n\nTara McPherson\, Professor and Chair\, Cinema & Media Studies\, University of Southern California – Tara McPherson is Chair and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and Director of the Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Studies. She is a core faculty member of the IMAP program\, USC’s innovative practice based-Ph.D.\, and also an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. Her research engages the cultural dimensions of media\, including the intersection of gender\, race\, affect and place. She has a particular interest in digital media. Here\, her research focuses on the digital humanities\, early software histories\, gender\, and race\, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing\, learning\, and authorship.\n\nModerated by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, Simon Fraser University – Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University\, and leads the Digital Democracies Institute which was launched in 2019. The Institute aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. It has four distinct research streams all led by Dr. Chun: Beyond Verification which looks at authenticity and the spread of disinformation; From Hate to Agonism\, focusing on fostering democratic exchange online; Desegregating Network Neighbourhoods\, combatting homophily across platforms; and Discriminating Data: Neighbourhoods\, Individuals and Proxies\, investigating the centrality of race\, gender\, class and sexuality to big data and network analytics.\n\nCo-sponsored by the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Working Group\, the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics\, and Culture and the Department of Cinema & Media Studies
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/digital-media-workshop-white-supremacy-affect-and-digital-culture/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210525T093000
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SUMMARY:Wendy gives Keynote at Digital (Im)Materialities Conference
DESCRIPTION:Digital (Im)materialities is a student-run conference organized by the first-year MA Media Studies cohort at Concordia University in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. \nAs the pandemic continues to rage\, we approach one year of conducting much of our lives: personal\, professional\, academic\, online. This transition has proven in turns frustrating\, alienating\, and humorous but\, more saliently\, it has highlighted myriad questions and challenges in the realm of communications and media studies. Given these considerations\, our conference encourages a self-reflexive approach which takes advantage of the unique affordances of virtual gathering and challenges the notion of the virtual as ahistorical and non-spatial: a global conference for a moment of global crisis. This year has not only seen the mainstreaming of such platforms as Zoom and TikTok\, but has reiterated the importance of longstanding lines of inquiry of Queer and Disability studies scholars whose work attends to the importance of digital community and accessibility. By bracketing the “im” in immaterialities\, we hope to emphasize the dual nature of digitally mediated life during the pandemic: both the ephemeral and the durable; absence and presence. Though these aspects are inherent to virtual existence\, they are highlighted during moments of crisis. While this conference is presented by the Communication Studies department\, we wish to foster scholarship which bridges fields of study and provokes diverse ways of thinking through seemingly discipline-specific questions. As such\, we hope to offer an arena for graduate scholars\, research-creators\, and artists to critically engage with the issues of the moment\, offer solutions and connect with fellow thinkers to both mourn what has been lost during the pandemic and to celebrate the unique possibility for reimagining the status quo.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-gives-keynote-at-digital-immaterialities-conference/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210526T103000
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SUMMARY:Jutta Treviranus talks to the Lab
DESCRIPTION:Jutta Treviranus is the Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and professor at OCAD University in Toronto http://inclusivedesign.ca\, formerly the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. The IDRC conducts proactive research and development in the inclusive design of emerging information and communication technology and practices. Jutta also heads the Inclusive Design Institute a multi-university regional centre of expertise on inclusive design. Jutta is the Co-Director of Raising the Floor International. She also established and directs an innovative graduate program in Inclusive Design. Jutta has led many international multi-partner research networks that have created broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. These include the Fluid Project\, Fluid Engage\, CulturAll\, Stretch\, FLOE and many others. Jutta and her team have pioneered personalization as an approach to accessibility in the digital domain. She has played a leading role in developing accessibility legislation\, standards and specifications internationally (including WAI ATAG\, IMS AccessForAll\, ISO 24751 \, and AODA Information and Communication).
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/jutta-treviranus-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:ICA Conference - Javier Ruiz-Soler and Wendy Chun
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Chun moderates a panel at ICA on How Conspiracies Work: National and International Approaches to Trust\, Mistrust\, and Authenticity \nChairs\nJavier Ruiz Soler\, Simon Fraser U\, CANADA\nModerator\nWendy Chun\, Simon Fraser U\, CANADA \nParticipants\nBeyond Verification: Authenticity and Mis/Disinformation\nJavier Ruiz Soler\, Simon Fraser U\, CANADA\nLocating COVID-19 Conspiracies in South Africa and Nigeria\nIginio Gagliardone\, Wits U\, SOUTH AFRICA\nThis is Lebanon: Affective Motivations\, Migrant Labor\, and the Kafala System\nHeather Jaber\, U of Pennsylvania\, USA\nThe Code\, the Clock\, and the QAnon Conspiracy Theory\nMoira Weigel\, Data & Society\, USA \nThis panel analyzes conspiracies and misinformation\, and how conspiracies become accepted as authentic. We present study cases on selected topics from different regions and discuss the common features of authenticity. Each one of the panelists will discuss the methods they have used in their research\, or present alternative methods to study misinformation beyond fact-checking. This panel is focused on specific topics (COVID-19\, QAnon\, Wexit and the kafala system) in South Africa and Nigeria\, United States\, Canada\, and Lebanon.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ica-conference-javier-ruiz-soler-and-wendy-chun/
LOCATION:Online
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