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Wendy Gives the 12th Annual Attallah Lecture at Carleton University
September 16, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication invites you to the 12th annual Attallah Lecture, on Thursday, September 16th at 3:30pm PST. This year’s speaker is Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University.
Dr. Chun’s research draws from the humanities and social 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. Dr. Chun’s lecture, Discriminating Data, will explore how polarization is a goal – not an error – within current practices of predictive data analysis and machine learning. This is an urgent and timely topic, and the lecture promises to be thought provoking.
The 2021 Attallah Lecture is open to the public and will be held online via Zoom this year. We ask that you please register in advance.