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Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) Technological Change for Inclusion | School of Interactive Arts & Technology Simon Fraser University

by School of Interactive Arts & Technology Simon Fraser University

Apply by: Review of applicants will commence on January 15th, 2023 continuing until a successful candidate has been chosen. The School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Technological Change for Inclusion. This tenure-track position is intended for applicants with an exceptional research record at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The anticipated start date of this position is Spring 2023. As a technology research-focused school that occupies the traditional territories of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Tsleil-Waututh (səlil ̓ w̓ ətaʔɬ), Katzie, and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) peoples, SIAT aspires to create a space for reconciliation through dialogue and decolonizing practices. With these aspirations in mind, we invite applicants whose research aims to create opportunities that foster inclusion, justice, equality, equity, and wellbeing through critical uses of emerging technologies. [...]   Source: Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) Technological Change for Inclusion | School of Interactive Arts & Technology Simon Fraser University

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November 22, 2022

Housing Advocates Release Database of Serial Evictors for Tenants | Vice

by Edward Ongweso Jr

On Tuesday, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP)—a data visualization project focused on documenting urban displacement and resistance—unveiled a new tool: the Evictorbook, a database of corporate landlords in San Francisco and Oakland that identifies evictors, their shell companies, additional rental properties, and eviction patterns. [...] Source: Housing Advocates Release Database of Serial Evictors for Tenants

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November 17, 2022

Trustworthy Infrastructures: Exploring Emerging Approaches to Building Trust Online | Data & Society: Points

by Sareeta Amrute

Trust is not a one-size-fits-all concept. It is constructed and produced in ways that serve some communities, and exclude others. Many of our current technological systems are designed in ways that inspire mistrust. When it comes to social media companies, for example, ad-driven business models, inadequate policies, and algorithms optimized for engagement combine with social and political dynamics to worsen trust in institutions. [...] Source: Trustworthy Infrastructures: Exploring Emerging Approaches to Building Trust Online | by Sareeta | Oct, 2022 | Data & Society: Points

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November 14, 2022

We used to get excited about technology. What happened? | MIT Technology Review

by Shannon Vallor

I had blinked at the aesthetic poverty of the most recent pitch for Meta’s Horizon Worlds VR game, featuring Mark Zuckerberg’s dead-eyed cartoon avatar against a visual background that one Twitter wag charitably compared to “the painted walls of an abandoned day-care center.” I had let out a quiet sigh at the news of Ring Nation, an Amazon-produced TV show featuring “lighthearted viral content” captured from the Ring surveillance empire. I had clenched my jaw at a screenshot of the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model offering up AI artworks in the styles of dozens of unpaid human artists, whose collective labor had been poured into the model’s training data, ground up, and spit back out. [...] Source: We used to get excited about technology. What happened? | MIT Technology Review

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November 14, 2022

Towards a Social-Relational Model of Digital Disability Classification | Data & Society: Points

by Georgia van Toorn

It starts with a tick box on a form. To assess the potential risk to vulnerable people, my university ethics committee asks whether a research project involves “people with a cognitive impairment, physical impairment, an intellectual disability, or a mental illness.” This category appears alongside those classifying several other types of “risky” bodies, including “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” “women who are pregnant,” and “people highly dependent on medical care.” I place an x in the appropriate box, and, with one click, distill a vast universe of information, experiences, and subjectivities into a single data point, a single administrative category: disability. In doing so, I perform important boundary work, distinguishing bodies that demand extra attention, care, and scrutiny, from those that are of no special ethical or bureaucratic significance. [...]   Source: Towards a Social-Relational Model of Digital Disability Classification | by Georgia van Toorn | Oct, 2022 | Data & Society: Points

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November 14, 2022

NYPD Partners With Amazon Surveillance App To Access User Posts | New York City, NY Patch

by Kathleen Culliton

NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD this week will gain access to video, photos and messages posted to Amazon's home surveillance app through a new partnership with the company Ring, officials announced Wednesday. New York City's police force joins more than 2,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide who have signed up for access to Neighbors — an app that allows users, with or without Ring doorbell-cameras, to post hyperlocal safety alerts — since the program launched in 2018, according to the NYPD and information on Ring's website. “True public safety is a shared responsibility,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement. "This tool stands to further advance the collective work of our police and all the people we serve toward reaching that worthy ideal.” [...]   Source: NYPD Partners With Amazon Surveillance App To Access User Posts | New York City, NY Patch

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November 14, 2022

How Elon Musk’s Twitter Could Impact the Midterm Elections

by Edward Perez

Might Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter impact next week’s U.S. midterm elections? Based on the impulsive and unprofessional behavior we’ve seen over just the past week, the answer is “yes.” Right now, I see at least five ways that Musk can negatively impact the midterms if he continues to make poor decisions. [...] Source: How Elon Musk’s Twitter Could Impact the Midterm Elections

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November 14, 2022

Black Skinhead: A Conversation with Brandi Collins-Dexter

by Justin Hendrix

  Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. This episode of the podcast features a discussion with Brandi Collins-Dexter, the author of the new book BLACK SKINHEAD: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future. Brandi is both an academic and a civil rights activist in the fight for media and tech justice, and her book is a rollercoaster ride through those issues through culture and music and politics. Part media and cultural criticism, part memoir, and part warning, the book takes us to the fringes of Black communities and tries to make sense of our political moment. [...]   Source: Black Skinhead: A Conversation with Brandi Collins-Dexter

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November 14, 2022

YouTube will let doctors and nurses apply to be labeled as reliable – The Verge

by Nicole Wetsman

Licensed healthcare professionals on YouTube can now apply to get panels added to their videos that mark them as reliable health information sources, the company said Thursday. They’ll also be able to have videos added to health content shelves, which compile information on specific medical conditions. [...] Source: YouTube will let doctors and nurses apply to be labeled as reliable – The Verge

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November 3, 2022

Twitter Users Flock to Other Platforms as the Elon Musk Era Begins | WIRED

by Amanda Hoover

A week before Elon Musk closed his $44 billion Twitter deal, Cassie LaBelle, a writer who is part of a transgender community on Twitter, started a Discord server. “I don't know if Musk is gonna buy & destroy Twitter or not,” she wrote, but she hoped her server would be an interesting experiment. Beyond that, the server could in time become a safe space for the community of trans people she has cultivated over more than a decade. [...] Source: Twitter Users Flock to Other Platforms as the Elon Musk Era Begins | WIRED

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November 3, 2022
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