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SUMMARY:Wendy gives keynote at the Digital Humanities Conference at Congress
DESCRIPTION:Wendy gave the morning plenary for the CSDH at Congress 2021\, titled “Discriminating Data + SFU’s Digital Democracy Institute”
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-gives-keynote-at-the-digital-humanities-conference-at-congress/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Gray & Liliana Bounegru speak to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Please note the earlier start time of 9am PST for this talk.\n\nJonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities\, King’s College London\, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po\, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and he tweets at @jwyg. \nLiliana Bounegru is Lecturer in Digital Methods at the Department of Digital Humanities\, King’s College London; researcher at the Digital Methods Initiative; research associate at the Sciences Po Paris médialab; and co-founder of the Public Data Lab. Her research interests include digital media\, digital culture\, digital journalism\, inventive methods for new media research\, digital methods\, infrastructure studies\, platform studies\, issue mapping and controversy mapping. Her work has been published in New Media & Society\, Big Data & Society\, Visual Communication and Digital Journalism. More about her work can be found at lilianabounegru.org and on Twitter at @bb_liliana.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/jonathan-gray-liliana-bournegru-speak-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:Online
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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-5/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:CIGI - Deplatforming Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Javier Ruiz-Soler took part in the CIGI’s Social Hour on Deplatforming Social Media
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/cigi-deplatforming-social-media/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Adam Kingsmith\, Max Haiven & Aris Komporos-Athansiou present to the Lab
DESCRIPTION:Conspiratorialism as Dangerous Play in an age of Technofinance: From the GameStop Hunger Games to the Capitol Hill Jamboree\n\nWe approach contemporary reactionary conspiratorialism as a dangerous form of play that emerges from gamified neoliberal financialization. Our examples are (1) the siege of the US Capitol of January 6 by those loyal to outgoing president Trump and (2) the “GameStop frenzy” that saw small-time investors use retail stock trading apps to inflate the price of shares in certain recognized but underperforming corporations. We see these conspiratorial events as emerging from a financialized and technologically accelerated capitalist society where many (if not most) non-elites see the economy and politics as a rigged game\, but also one in the grips of gamification\, where the logic and enticements of play are increasingly integrated into the circuits of accumulation and everyday life. We propose that to challenge these cultural politics and material structures it is imperative to take seriously how to otherwise meet the need for non-instrumental play that reactionary conspiratorialism today fulfills.\n\nMax Haiven is Canada Research Chair in Culture\, Media and Social Justice and co-director of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) at Lakehead University. His recent books include Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts and Art After Money\, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization. More information can be found at maxhaiven.com.\n\nAris Komporozos-Athanasiou is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College London\, where he leads the Sociology and Social Theory Research Group. He is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (University of Chicago Press\, 2021). His current book project\, tentatively titled ‘Winning in the Real Fake’\, is an intellectual history of conspiracy in finance capitalism.\n\nA.T. Kingsmith is PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics at York University and Co-founder of EiQ Technologies\, an emotion-AI start-up based out of the Design Fabrication Zone in the Creative Innovation Studio at Ryerson University. His forthcoming monograph\, Anxiety as a Weapon: An Affective Approach to Political Economy\, explores new modes for transforming the mental health landscape. For more\, see atkingsmith.com.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/adam-kingsmith-max-haiven-aris-komporos-athansiou-present-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Facing Recognition – Talk and Discussion at the Other(ing) Sensing Conference
DESCRIPTION:Wendy gives the keynote on Facing Recognition – Talk and Discussion at the Other(ing) Sensing. Practices\, Politics and Ethics of Sensitive Media – Conference by the research group “SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media” at the University of Potsdam. \nWhat does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection? Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to “pattern recognition\,” this talk unpacks the logic and politics of recognition at the core of systems designed to automatically identify and classify users. It argues for the centrality of the humanities in understanding how we have become characters in a drama called “Big Data.”
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/1586/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Summer School - Towards Responsible Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:This part-time\, five-day course offers foundational Artificial Intelligence\, Machine Learning and Data science concepts that are applicable in the humanities and social sciences. Offered by SFU’s Digital Democracies Institute and SFU’s Big Data Initiative\, this course will have you examine best practices to critically evaluate and mitigate unwanted bias from sources such as data\, algorithms or users. Through collaborative hands-on labs guided by SFU experts\, you will come away with the kind of data science experience and knowledge that organizations and recruiters value. \nDate: \nThis workshop will be held from June 21-25 everyday from 9am-2:30pm Pacific Time \nPrice: \n$695 CAD (Taxes and fees included) \n$500 Scholarship \nOur partner Athena Pathways is offering a $500 scholarship designed to lower barriers for women pursuing careers in the AI and data science fields. This scholarship will be awarded after completion of the workshop. Any person who identifies as female and resides in British Columbia will qualify. \n$350 Grant \nYou may qualify for the $350 Scale AI grant. Apply for the grant.You will be sent a discount code for this course after applying. This grant cannot be combined with the Athena Pathways scholarship. \nLink to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sfu-data-fellowships-towards-responsible-machine-learning-tickets-146802515275 \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/summer-school/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Nathan Schneider talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:The implicit feudalism of online communities\n\nAn “implicit feudalism” informs the available options for community management on the dominant platforms for online communities. It is a pattern that grants user-administrators absolutist reign over their fiefdoms\, with competition among them as the primary mechanism for quality control\, typically under rules set by platform companies. Implicit feudalism emerged from technical conditions dating to early online networks. In light of alternative management mechanisms with more democratic features\, it becomes all the more clear that implicit feudalism is not a necessary condition. This talk will both diagnose the problem and explore some possible avenues for fostering a more diverse\, accountable\, and participatory range of governance options for online communities. \nNathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder\, where he leads the Media Enterprise Design Lab. His most recent book is Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy. \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/nathan-schneider-talks-to-the-institute/
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SUMMARY:Aleena Chia presents to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Aleena Leng An Chia is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication specializing in the ethnography of gaming cultures. Her research investigates practices at the margins of the digital and analogue\, and in the interstices between work and play. Her work examines gaming’s boundary work as structuring categories in post-Fordism\, as achievement systems in player communities\, and as moral calculations in the new economy. In addition to ethnographic and qualitative approaches\, she uses media archaeology and critical discourse analysis to study marginal forms of media: artefacts such as neuro-wearables for lucid dreaming and practices such as digital minimalism in social media disconnection. Her goal across these projects is to politicize the emotional and spiritual undercurrents of instrumental rationality in digital media. \nAleena received her PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University Bloomington in 2017 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies in 2018. Her work has been supported by training from the School of Criticism and Theory\, funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research\, and a Research Internship at Microsoft Research New England’s Social Media Collective.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/aleena-chia-presents-to-the-institute/
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