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SUMMARY:Wendy at Westminster Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Democracy’s Digital Dilemma \nDr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s upcoming book\, Discriminating Data\, delves into how social media platforms are designed to make us hate one another across political\, racial\, and class lines. She will speak at the Forum on how the internet and algorithms have undermined democracy and how they could be used in the pursuit of racial and social justice. \nThis forum will be presented in a virtual hybrid format. Dr. Chun will not be physically at Westminster. Instead\, she will speak live from Canada which we will project in the Westminster Sanctuary. She will take questions from the live Westminster audience. This will all be available to watch on the Forum’s website and Facebook. \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-westminster-town-hall/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Nobel Conference 2021
DESCRIPTION:Nobel Conference 57 – Big Data REvolution \nWendy presents at the Nobel Conference on Beyond Verification. How do we reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation? What makes any piece of info true? Fact checking alone is inadequate to such a task. Wendy Chun is working with a deeply multidisciplinary team of researchers that includes everyone from data analysts to dramaturgs\, to develop a model that can answer that question\, developing new ways to displace fake news. The project\, called “Beyond Verification\,” is part of the Digital Democracies Institute.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/nobel-conference-2021/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Global Disinformation Index - Public Launch of Report & Results for Canada
DESCRIPTION:1-2.30pm EST / 10-11.30am PST \nRegister here for the launch event for this highly anticipated event. News websites have financial incentives to spread disinformation\, in order to increase their online traffic and\, ultimately\, their advertising revenue. Meanwhile\, the dissemination of disinformation has disruptive and impactful consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a recent example. By disrupting society’s shared sense of accepted facts\, these narratives undermine public health\, safety and government responses. \nTo combat ad-funded disinformation\, the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) deploys its assessment framework to rate news domains’ risk of disinforming their readers. These independent\, trusted and neutral ratings are used by advertisers\, ad tech companies and platforms\, to redirect their online ad spending in line with their brand safety and disinformation risk mitigation strategies. \nGDI defines disinformation as ‘adversarial narratives that create real world harm’\, and the GDI risk rating provides information about a range of indicators related to the risk that a given news website will disinform its readers by spreading these adversarial narratives. These indicators are grouped under the index’s Content and Operations pillars\, which respectively measure the quality and reliability of a site’s content and its operational and editorial integrity. \nThe launch event will see panelists discuss the findings of the research\, and discuss the impacts of those findings\, before taking Q&A from the audience:
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/global-disinformation-index-public-launch-of-report-results-for-canada/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Zack McCune presents to the lab
DESCRIPTION:Zack McCune presents ‘Conflict\, Consensus\, and Creativity: Wikipedia at 20’. \nZack McCune is Director of Brand at the Wikimedia Foundation. He draws on a background in sociology and creative marketing. As a Master’s student at the University of Cambridge\, he authored the first academic study of Instagram. McCune directed social media for MasterCard and Mountain Dew before returning to his roots in ‘free culture.’ Today he leads the Brand Studio at Wikipedia\, a team of 9 creative staff and dozens of filmmakers\, artists\, and design agencies to inspire global participation in open knowledge.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/zack-mccune-presents-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy at Arebyte Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Wendy will be taking part in a panel discussion based on visual artist Ben Grosser’s show Software For Less\, which you can see more about here. \nThe event will aim to discuss software as culture\, the politics of interface\, and the power (im)balance between user and corporation within today’s digital technologies and social media platforms. \nMore details to be added once confirmed.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-arebyte-gallery/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy gives Keynote at Critical Borders Conference\, Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Wendy will be giving the keynote address at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies ‘Critical Borders: Radical (Re)visions of AI’ Conference. \nThe aim of this conference is to critically interrogate issues of bordering in artificial intelligence (AI). This conference examines both how AI operates at material borders\, including national and bodily borders\, and how AI produces or transgresses imagined\, theoretical and ideological borders\, such as categories of race\, gender\, age and class. Compelled by Gayatri Spivak’s insistence that we attend to borders (Spivak 2016)\, taking into account when border crossings are a violation and when they are pleasurable\, we ask: what kinds of border-crossing are induced by AI\, and what kinds are prohibited? Which borders does AI reinforce\, and which borders does it render obsolete? We aim to explore the tension between the possibilities of transgressing boundaries\, especially in the context of binary categorisation\, and the risks of equating boundary subversion with emancipatory political practices. In particular\, we are interested in scholarship that examines how AI’s transgression of boundaries can unintentionally entrench\, rather than challenge\, gendered and racialised norms.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-gives-keynote-at-critical-borders-conference-cambridge/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Iginio Gagliardone presents to the lab
DESCRIPTION:Iginio Gagliardone is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa\, and Associate Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP)\, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been living between Italy\, Ethiopia\, the UK\, and South Africa\, researching the relationship between new media\, political change\, and human development\, and exploring the emergence of distinctive models of the information society in the Global South. His most recent publications include “China\, Africa\, and the future of the Internet” (ZED)\, “The Politics of Technology in Africa” (Cambridge University Press)\, and “World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development” (UNESCO). His study “Countering Online Hate Speech”\, supported by UNESCO\, has rapidly become one of the most cited publications in the field\, highlighting the need to develop bottom-up and contextually informed responses to the emergence of online hatred.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/iginio-gagliardone/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy at Gray Area Festival 2021: Worlding Protocol
DESCRIPTION:About the Gray Area Festival 2021: Join us for our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice with artist presentations\, conversations\, workshops\, and an exhibition — now freely accessible online around the world. \nHow do we negotiate the balance between our individual freedom and communal dependencies; and what practical reality can we build together? \nAs we take stock from within a still uncontained global pandemic\, it is clear that the entangled web of ecological\, economic\, and social crises we face demands planetary scale cooperation. Even with the promise of new technologies enabling real-time simulation\, distributed financial systems\, and geoengineering\, exclusionary and extractive power structures persist — rendering purely technical solutions ineffective. Anything is possible\, yet nothing seems to change. \nFor our 7th edition\, Gray Area Festival presents Worlding Protocol — a survey of interdisciplinary creators drawing upon indigenous knowledge\, transhumanist philosophies\, regenerative ecologies\, and autonomous organizations to imagine new relational ontologies beyond utopian and fatalist worldviews. \nRegister here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-gray-area-festival-2021-worlding-protocol/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Laura Marks presents to the lab
DESCRIPTION:Laura Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus\, and on small-footprint media. Her most recent books are Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT\, 2015) and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT\, 2010). She programs experimental media for venues around the world. As Grant Strate University Professor\, she teaches in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, Canada\, on unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/laura-marks-presents-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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