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SUMMARY:Alissa Antle presents to the lab
DESCRIPTION:Alissa Antle is an innovator and scholar\, whose research pushes the boundaries of computation to augment the ways we think and learn. As a designer and builder of interactive technologies\, her goal is to explore the ways in which these innovations can improve\, augment\, and support children’s cognitive and emotional development. Her interactive systems have been deployed to facilitate collaborative learning about aboriginal heritage\, sustainability and social justice; improve learning outcomes for dyslexic children; and teach emotion-regulation to disadvantaged children. In 2015\, Alissa was one of 48 scholars inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars\, Artists and Scientists\, acknowledging her as one of Canada’s intellectual leaders. \n\n\n\n\nTo see a descriptions of complete and current research projects\, please view Alissa Antle’s research site.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/alissa-antle-presents-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Wendy is a panelist as part of the exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns« at ZKM
DESCRIPTION:Details tbd
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-is-a-panelist-as-part-of-the-exhibition-barabasilab-hidden-patterns-at-zkm/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy at SFU School of Communication Book and Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:The SFU School of Communication’s Book and Speaker Series is a space in which the School engages with recently published books by faculty and other members of the community. Experience an engaging conversation with the author about our featured publication of the month. Our goal is to encourage fluid conversations between faculty and students and to celebrate the achievements of our scholarly community\, think critically\, pose questions and search for new avenues for research and activism. \nWendy Chun (SFU School of Communication) and Alex Barnett (Flatiron Institute\, Simons Foundation) will be in conversation with Mercedes Bunz (King’s College London). The new book Discriminating Data Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition\, reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-school-of-communication-book-speaker-series-tickets-200368636987
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-sfu-school-of-communication-book-and-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Karrmen Crey presents to the lab
DESCRIPTION:Karrmen Crey is Sto:lo and a member of the Cheam Band. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University\, where her research examines the rise of Indigenous media in Canada\, and the institutions of media culture that Indigenous media practitioners have historically engaged and navigated to produce their work. Her current research examines Indigenous film festivals and Indigenous digital media\, particularly Indigenous virtual reality and augmented reality.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/karrmen-crey-presents-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Talk at UConn Humanities Institute
DESCRIPTION:Wendy is giving a talk at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute on her new book\, Discriminating Data. The talk would be part of their Digital Humanities & Media Studies initiative’s speaker series. \nMore details tbd. \n  \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/talk-at-uconn-humanities-institute/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Wendy at Infoscape Research Lab
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a book launch and talk for Discriminating Data (MIT Press) by Wendy Chun (Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, Simon Fraser University). Respondent: Ganaele Langlois (York University). Register here to attend. \nIn Discriminating Data\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods\, she argues\, encode segregation\, eugenics\, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation\, which grounds big data’s predictive potential\, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media and Professor of Communication and Director of the SFU Digital Democracies Institute. She is the author of Control and Freedom\, Programmed Visions\, and Updating to Remain the Same\, all published by the MIT Press. \nA Zoom link will be sent to registered participants the morning of the event.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-infoscape-research-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Wendy at McGill's Centre for Media\, Technology and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join Centre for Media\, Technology & Democracy Research Director\, Sonja Solomun for a discussion with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun about her newly published book Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition (MIT Press). Register for the event here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-mcgills-centre-for-media-technology-and-democracy/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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