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SUMMARY:Elisha Lim presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Elisha Lim\, is a Provost Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice\, where they are working on a book that connects social media algorithms to piety and pious conduct. Lim is also an award-winning claymation filmmaker and graphic novelist\, and their community-based art practice has been extensively documented by longitudinal scholarly studies and Duke University Press monographs. \nThe Original Platform: The East India Company \nElisha Lim will explain how The East India Company (EIC) is the predecessor to modern digital platforms (like Alphabet\, Amazon\, Meta\, Apple\, Microsoft\, Baidu\, Alibaba\, and Tencent). Lim will focus on the case study of the Company’s operations in their hometown of Singapore\, in order to combine Platform Studies with Southeast Asian history and colonial scholarship. Lim will adopt four elements of a platform in order to outline how the East India Company is the blueprint of modern platforms: 1) Platform: EIC’s treaties and charters; 2) Complementors: European shipping companies\, plantation owners etc.; 3) Application programming interfaces: roads\, monetary systems\, etc.\, and 4) Software development kits: the spread of racist views and tactics through media\, literature\, philosophy and culture. This talk will underscore the indispensability of colonial frameworks to Platform Studies.  \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
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SUMMARY:Data Fluencies Speaker Series - Kim Gallon
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book\, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press\, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression\, agency\, and identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Gallon is also the author of the field defining article\, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.\n\nThis speaker series is co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Lab/Harman Academy at the University of Southern California\, the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Program and the Digital Democracies Institute.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/data-fluencies-speaker-series-kim-gallon/
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SUMMARY:Liz Canner presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning media artist Liz Canner has produced many documentaries and transmedia projects that investigate social and environmental in/justice issues.  She often utilizes emerging technologies to interrogate mainstream narratives\, explore new language for communication and inspire user engagement. Her critically acclaimed interactive documentary Symphony of A City\, explores the housing crisis from a new perspective. Orgasm Inc.\, a NY Times “Critic’s Pick”\, investigates the pharmaceutical industry. Lost City of Mer\, an award-winning smartphone app and VR experience\, uses a unique living narrative structure to immerse players in a mysterious underwater civilization devastated by climate change. Canner has received over 60 awards and honors including a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship\, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard\, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Canner’s award-winning films have been theatrically released\, shown extensively on the international festival circuit\, streamed on Netflix (“Most Popular”) and Kanopy (“Most Popular”) and broadcast on PBS\, cable stations and internationally in many countries. \nPixel Pleasures and Human Disasters\n\nDuring her interactive talk at SFU\, award winning media artist Liz Canner will discuss her work\, process\, and the history of cyber-democracy. This includes how she chased down orgasm disease-mongers\, uncovered decades of ritualized violence on college campuses\, had her investigative work on police brutality censored\, and built a fantastical underwater lost civilization devastated by climate change – all in the pursuit of using media as a tool for social and environmental justice. She’ll go into her use of emerging technologies to challenge dominant paradigms and deconstruct power dynamics while exploring its potential for inspiring user action and positive change.  The research questions she’ll be exploring while on campus will also be discussed. \nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/liz-canner-presents-to-the-ddi/
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