The SFU - Korea University Symposium is taking place on February 8 from 12:00-5:00 PST. This event is in partnership with The Center for ICT and Society, Korea University, the Transnational Culture and Digital Technology Lab, SFU & The Digital Democracies Institute, SFU.    This event takes place in person at the DDI, with keynote speaker Prof. […]

Fenwick McKelvey (Concordia University) will be joining the DDI in person for a presentation, as part of the Spring Speaker Series. "You Played Yourself: The Origins of World Politics as Computer Game" In 1959, political scientist Oliver Benson created the first computer simulation of world politics. Written to run in the drum of an IBM […]

Joan Donovan from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy will present on their new book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. This presentation is part of the Data Fluencies Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California and the […]

KEYNOTE: How to Sense the Future: Global Climate Change and Media Edu-cologies - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Amy Harris Global climate change has been predicted for at least a century, and yet little has been changed in response. This inaction has revealed the importance and inadequacy of knowledge: at first, many scientists and activists […]