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SUMMARY:Susan Schuppli presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Susan Schuppli\, Goldsmiths University of London\, is an artist-researcher and writer. She is currently Director & Reader of the Centre for Research Architecture. Through investigative processes that involve an engagement with scientific and technical modes of inquiry\, her work aims to open up new conceptual pathways into the material strata of our world. \nWhile many projects have examined media artefacts—photographs\, film\, video\, and audio transmissions—that have emerged out of sites of contemporary conflict and state violence\, current work explores the ways in which toxic ecologies from nuclear accidents and oil spills to the dark snow of the arctic are producing an “extreme image” archive of material wrongs. Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe as well as in Canada\, Asia and the US. \nShe has published widely within the context of media and politics and am author of the forthcoming book\, Material Witness (MIT Press)\, which is also the subject of an experimental documentary. \nShe is an affiliate artist-researcher and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. Previously she was Senior Research Fellow and Project Co-ordinator of Forensic Architecture. In 2016 she received the ICP Infinity Award for Research and Critical Writing.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/susan-schuppli-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at McMaster University: "The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective\, productive\, and necessary."
DESCRIPTION:Join McMaster University for a public talk (on Zoom) by Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun entitled “The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective\, productive\, and necessary”. Dr. Chun is a 2022 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University\, sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts\, the Department of English and Cultural Studies\, the School of the Arts\, the Centre for Networked Media and Performance\, the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship\, the graduate program in Gender and Social Justice\, and the undergraduate program in Global Peace and Social Justice. Full details below – please note that advance registration on Zoom (free) is required. \nWhen: Feb 8\, 2022 01:30 – 3:00 PM PST \nDr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: “The Digital Democracies Institute and why interdisciplinary work is effective\, productive\, and necessary.” \nAbstract: The Digital Democracies Institute (DDI) integrates research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice. Our work aims 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. A range of disciplines provides rich perspectives on democracy’s ideals and practices in the Internet age. Yet\, despite the best efforts of specialists in various disciplines and sectors\, the problems of misinformation\, radicalization\, echo chambers\, and abusive language persist. A lack of communication across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries means that insights into these problems may be replicated and not shared\, and solutions that may depend on insights from another discipline may not be considered. In addition\, the lack of a common vocabulary inhibits the development of shared theoretical frameworks and solutions. The Digital Democracies Institute aims to bridge this gap through interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge mobilization. \nBio: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the DDI. 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. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania\, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)\, and she has held fellowships from: the Guggenheim\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has been a Visiting Professor at AI Now at NYU\, the Velux Visiting Professor of Management\, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School; the Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon\, Visiting Professor at Leuphana University (Luneburg\, Germany)\, and a Visiting Associate Professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard\, of which she is an Associate.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-mcmaster-university-the-digital-democracies-institute-and-why-interdisciplinary-work-is-effective-productive-and-necessary/
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SUMMARY:Courtney Radsch presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:AI and Disinformation: State-Aligned Information Operations and the Distortion of the Public Sphere \nCourtney C. Radsch\, PhD\, is a journalist\, scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on the intersection of technology\, media\, and human rights. Currently\, she is a fellow at UCLA’s Technology\, Law and Policy Institute; a senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Center for Media\, Data and Society (CMDS); and a visiting scholar at Annenberg’s Center for Media at Risk. Her research focuses on internet governance and the geopolitics of technology\, media sustainability and the future of journalism\, and power dynamics in digitally inflected information ecosystems. She is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2016) based on her pioneering doctoral research and her work has been published in top media outlets and peer-reviewed academic journals. She is a frequent public speaker and frequent media commentator including for CNN\, Al Jazeera\, NPR\, and other global media outlets. Dr. Radsch has led advocacy missions to more than a dozen countries and has provided expert testimony to Congress\, the OSCE\, OECD\, and the United Nations. \nShe spent seven years as Advocacy Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists\, where she led its technology policy advocacy and campaigns to free imprisoned journalists\, redress impunity for journalist murders\, and combat online harassment. As a scholar-practitioner and former journalist in the Middle East\, Radsch is deeply interested in the practical implications of her research and serves on a variety of advisory bodies and civil society networks including the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the UN Internet Governance Forum\, the International Science Council’s Panel of Experts\, and the internet governance academic research network GigaNet. She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Online Violence (COAV)\, The ACOS Alliance (A Culture of Safety)\, and the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. She serves on the board of Tech Policy Press and the advisory board of the Dangerous Speech Project and Ranking Digital Rights. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from American University. Find her on Twitter @courtneyr and www.mediatedspeech.com.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/courtney-radsch-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk 2: Wendy Chun — Discriminating data
DESCRIPTION:University of Waterloo – Thursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 6 to 9 p.m. online in three parts | Register now \nHave you ever observed a divisive\, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background? \nIn her most recent book\, Discriminating Data (2021)\, Wendy 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. \n\n6:00-7:00 p.m.\nData Jam\nIn this pre-conversation event\, co-organized with the qcollaborative\, participants will engage in a group design activity inspired by Wendy Chun’s book\, Discriminating Data. Limited space available. \n\n\n7:00-8:00 p.m.\nDiscriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun\nParticipants include Marcel O’Gorman (moderator) with respondents Brie Wiens and Queenie Wu. \n\n\n8:00-9:00 p.m.\n2D Social Mixer\nJoin in Gather Town for the “Data Jam Showcase” and a surprise jam room.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/critical-tech-talk-2-wendy-chun-discriminating-data/
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SUMMARY:Webinar - Protecting Expert Advice for the Public: Promoting Safety and Improved Communications
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has highlighted the extent to which researchers who publicly share their expertise and the results of research face harassment and personal threats. The intimidation of experts has recently garnered significant media attention\, but it is a problem that has affected the safety\, well-being\, and work of those who produce knowledge for some time. There is significant risk not only to researchers\, but also to the public if the threat of intimidation prevents researchers from sharing knowledge and expertise. \nThese risks\, and some steps to mitigate them\, are articulated in the Royal Society of Canada Policy Briefing on Protecting Expert Advice for the Public. \nOn February 11\, at 2:00 pm EST\, the RSC is hosting an hour-long free virtual Town Hall convening the authors of this report to discuss key challenges in ongoing efforts to draw on expert advice to support effective public debate and decision-making to help Canada through\, and beyond\, the pandemic. Register for the event here. \nModerator \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Professor\, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, School of Communication\, Simon Fraser University \nPanelists \nAmanda Clarke\, Associate Professor\, School of Public Policy & Administration\, Carleton University \nMatthew Herder\, Associate Professor\, Department of Pharmacology\, Faculty of Medicine\, and Director\, Health Law Institute\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University \nHoward Ramos\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western University \nJulia M. Wright\, FRSC\, George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric\, Department of English\, Dalhousie University
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/webinar-protecting-expert-advice-for-the-public-promoting-safety-and-improved-communications/
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at Berkeley Center for New Media
DESCRIPTION:Discriminating Data with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor in New Media; Director of The Digital Democracies Institute\, Simon Fraser University \nRegister for Zoom link here!\nOr watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gx3SrPAWW1g \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. \nAbout Wendy Chun\nWendy 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. \nDr. Chun is also the author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011)\, and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, as well as numerous articles and edited collections. She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes\, including the Guggenheim Foundation\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades. Currently\, Dr. Chun works with the Digital Democracies Institute to undertake the proliferation of misinformation\, abusive language and discriminatory algorithms. Through the investigation of natural language processing (NLP)\, political theory and critical data studies\, the group aims to develop methods for creating effective online counterspeech and alternative models for connection. \nAccessibiilty\nThe event is free and open to the public and will take place virtually over Zoom with a simultaneous livestream on BCNM’s YouTube Channel. All of our broadcasts will be live-captioned\, and our Zoom Webinar experience offers an additional Streamtext window with options to customize caption text size and display. Please contact info.bcnm [at] berkeley.edu with requests or questions. \nWith the consent of featured speakers\, all recorded videos will be available on the BCNM YouTube channel immediately after the event and event transcripts will be posted to this page one month after the event. We strive to meet any additional access and accommodation needs. \nBCNM is proud to make conversations with leading scholars\, artists\, and technologists freely available to the public. Please help us continue this tradition by making a tax-deductible donation today. If you are in the position to support the program\, we suggest $5 per event\, or $100 a year.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-berkley-center-for-new-media/
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SUMMARY:Seda Gürses presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Seda is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management\, and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)\, KU Leuven. Previously she was an FWO post-doctoral fellow at COSIC/ESAT\, a research associate at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton University\, and a fellow at the Media\, Culture and Communications Department at NYU Steinhardt as well as the Information Law Institute at NYU Law School. \nHer work focuses on privacy enhancing and protective optimization technologies (PETs and POTs)\, privacy engineering\, as well as questions around software infrastructures\, social justice and political economy as they intersect with computer science.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/seda-gurses-presents-to-the-ddi/
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at Brown University's COGUT Institute for the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Discriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun \nRegister for the event here. \nIn Discriminating Data (MIT Press\, 2021)\, 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 leads the Digital Democracies Institute. She is the author of several works including Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press\, 2006)\, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press\, 2011)\, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT Press\, 2016)\, and Discriminating Data (MIT Press\, 2021). \nThe series “Democracy: A Humanities Perspective” is convened by Amanda Anderson\, Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. Through both the format and the content\, we aim to showcase the forms of layered understanding and analysis that humanities scholars bring to the study of democracy\, with special emphasis on current challenges in the U.S. and abroad. The events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-brown-university-cogut-institute-for-the-humanities/
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SUMMARY:Wendy Chun at UCSC Computational Media Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Chun at UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Seminar. \nRegister here.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-chun-at-ucsc-computational-media-seminar/
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