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SUMMARY:Sheelagh Carpendale presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Sheelagh Carpendale from Simon Fraser University’s School of Computing Science presents to the DDI. Her research interests include: information visualization\, interaction design\, large display interaction\, visual analytics\, personal visualization\, human computer interaction\, interactive technologies\, collaborative interaction\, open data\, data empowerment. \nMore details TBD. Email ddi_lab@sfu.ca for Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/sheelagh-carpendale-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in Canada
DESCRIPTION:Taming Big Tech: Exploring the Alternatives – How to re-claim digital platforms for democracy in Canada \nWendy Chun in conversation with Andrew Clement. \nWendy Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University. She leads the Digital Democracies Institute which aims to develop methods for creating effective online counterspeech and alternative models for connection to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation. Join Wendy in conversation with Andrew Clement\, host of the CFE Taming Big Tech series and Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. This event is #7 in CFE Series. \nCo-sponsors: Edmonton Public Library\, Milton Public Library\, Thunder Bay Public Library\, Toronto Public Library\, Vancouver Public Library. \nZoom link to event ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567 \nThis is a free event and no registration is required. \nPlease contact cfe@ryerson.ca if you require accommodation to ensure inclusion in this event.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-in-conversation-with-andrew-clement/
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SUMMARY:Discriminating Data: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Sarah Banet-Weiser
DESCRIPTION:In Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition\, 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. \nChun\, who has a background in systems design engineering as well as media studies and cultural theory\, explains that although machine learning algorithms may not officially include race as a category\, they embed whiteness as a default. Facial recognition technology\, for example\, relies on the faces of Hollywood celebrities and university undergraduates—groups not famous for their diversity. Homophily emerged as a concept to describe white U.S. resident attitudes to living in biracial yet segregated public housing. Predictive policing technology deploys models trained on studies of predominantly underserved neighborhoods. Trained on selected and often discriminatory or dirty data\, these algorithms are only validated if they mirror this data. \nJoin the online event at the University of Pennsylvania\, Annenberg School for Communication here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/discriminating-data-wendy-hui-kyong-chun-in-conversation-with-sarah-banet-weiser/
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SUMMARY:Timnit Gebru presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace\, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. She received her PhD from Stanford University\, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research\, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group\, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI\, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence\, inclusion\, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI\, and is on the board of AddisCoder\, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian highschool students\, free of charge. \nEmail ddi_lab@sfu.ca for a Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/timnit-gebru-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at University of Notre Dame
DESCRIPTION:Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of\, and live with\, our computational social condition today. Considering sociocultural\, aesthetic\, politicoeconomic\, environmental\, racial\, and historical registers of technology together\, the series will bring together people who think and do technology beyond disciplinary boundaries. The events are all designed as an ongoing series of conversations between scholars and practitioners in Media Studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology\, Critical Digital Studies\, and Literary Cultural Studies. \nLife in Pixels is generously sponsored by the Ruth and Paul Idzik College Chair in Digital Scholarship\, the Program in History and Philosophy of Science\, the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society\, the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship\, and the Department of Film\, Television\, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. \nWednesday\, January 26th\, 4:00 pm PST (zoom book talk) \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication where she leads the Digital Democracies Institute. 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 (MIT\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016)\, and Discriminating Data (2021\, MIT Press)\, and co-author of Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota + Meson Press 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. \nRegistration required for this event must take place prior to the virtual book talk. \n 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-university-of-notre-dame/
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