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SUMMARY:DISCO Super Panel: Futures of Race\, Gender\, Disability\, & Technology
DESCRIPTION:DISCO Network Co-Principal Investigators Lisa Nakamura\, Rayvon Fouché\, Remi Yergeau\, André Brock\, Stephanie Dinkins\, and Catherine Knight Steele will come together in a panel discussion to address current trends and challenges relating to race\, gender\, disability\, and technology\, and to address the importance of building a network of scholars and technologists examining these intersections. \nAgenda:\nLisa Nakamura | 1:00pm – 1:08pm \nRayvon Fouché | 1:08pm – 1:16pm \nStephanie Dinkins | 1:16pm – 1:24pm \nAndré Brock | 1:24pm – 1:32pm \nRemi Yergeau | 1:32pm – 1:40pm \nCatherine Knight Steele | 1:40pm – 1:48pm
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/disco-super-panel-futures-of-race-gender-disability-technology/
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SUMMARY:The PITCh: Special Edition\, A Chat with Safiya Noble and Latanya Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sweeney is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, and Prof. Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies. \nThe (Public Interest Technology Chat) PITCh is a monthly series of remote conversations between established and early career scholars to support the work of practitioners and academics interested in public interest technology\, with topics ranging from substantive issues to professional development topics.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-pitch-special-edition-a-chat-with-safiya-noble-and-latanya-sweeney/
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SUMMARY:Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life (CITAP) Spring 2022 Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:At CITAP\, we study the intersection of politics and digital technology\, researching technologies in the context of the people who design\, use\, and govern them. Our work unites multiple fields of study and methodological approaches with a shared Southern\, public-institutional view and commitments to equality and justice. \nFor our spring 2022 lecture series\, CITAP is proud to host speakers whose work exemplifies our own commitments to holistic research grounded in social differences and conscious of the roles of power and institutions. \nThese researchers’ work explores political processes\, democracy and equality\, mis- and disinformation\, and platforms\, networks\, and infrastructure. We hope that you’ll join us for the full series. \n  \nCatherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland – College Park and the author of Digital Black Feminism. Dr. Steele directs the Black Communication and Technology lab (BCaT) as a part of the Digital Inquiry\, Speculation\, Collaboration\, & Optimism (DISCO) Network funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nHer research focuses on race\, gender\, and media\, with a specific emphasis on African American culture and discourse in traditional and new media. She examines representations of marginalized communities in the media and how groups resist oppression and practice joy using online technology to create spaces of community.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/center-for-information-technology-and-public-life-citap-spring-2022-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life
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SUMMARY:Young Achievers Symposium - Paidamoyo Chapfuwa\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Paidamoyo Chapfuwa\, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University\, will deliver a talk as part of CSRAI’s Young Achievers Symposium. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Young Achievers Symposium highlights early career researchers in diverse fields of AI for social impact. The symposium series seeks to focus on emerging research\, stimulate discussions\, and initiate collaborations that can advance research in artificial intelligence for societal benefit. All events in the series are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Penn State students\, postdoctoral scholars\, and faculty with an interest in socially responsible AI applications are encouraged to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/young-achievers-symposium-paidamoyo-chapfuwa-stanford-university/
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SUMMARY:Designing an AI-driven Neighborhood Navigator with Black and Latinx NYC Residents
DESCRIPTION:Race and technology are closely intertwined\, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years\, it is only one of the many ways that technology and race intersect in computer science\, public health\, digital media\, gaming\, surveillance\, and other domains. To build inclusive technologies that empower us all\, we must understand how technologies and race construct one another and with what consequences. \nPresentation by Dr. Desmond Upton Patton \n\nAbstract: \nAn interdisciplinary team of social scientists\, computer scientist\, designers\, and researchers from the SAFElab at Columbia University’s School of Social Work\, School of Engineering and Applied Science and Data Science Institute partnered with the Research and Evaluation Center (REC) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to develop a Neighborhood Navigator which assesses patterns and changes in the sentiment of quality of life\, wellbeing\, community\, and living conditions among residents of New York City. The Neighborhood Navigator uses community focus groups and one-on-one interviews in concert with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques (e.g. natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision) to provide short-term\, recurring feedback on resident sentiment. Over time\, greater precision in the AI components could lead to reduced dependence on surveys and more cost-efficient sustainability. The tool will provide policymakers with insight into public sentiment about government work and allow them to respond accordingly.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/designing-an-ai-driven-neighborhood-navigator-with-black-and-latinx-nyc-residents/
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SUMMARY:"Challenges and Frontiers in Deploying Transparent Machine Learning" - Umang Bhatt\, University of Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:“Challenges and Frontiers in Deploying Transparent Machine Learning” \nExplainable machine learning offers the potential to provide stakeholders with insights into model behavior\, yet there is little understanding of how organizations use these methods in practice. In this talk\, Bhatt will discuss recent research exploring how organizations view and use explainability. He finds that most deployments are not for end-users but rather for machine learning engineers\, who use explainability to debug the model. There is thus a gap between explainability in practice and the goal of external transparency since explanations are primarily serving internal stakeholders. Providing useful external explanations requires careful consideration of the needs of stakeholders\, including end-users\, regulators\, and domain experts. Despite this need\, little work has been done to facilitate inter-stakeholder conversation around explainable machine learning. To help address this gap\, Bhatt reports findings from a closed-door\, day-long workshop between academics\, industry experts\, legal scholars\, and policymakers to develop a shared language around explainability and to understand the current shortcomings of and potential solutions for deploying explainable machine learning in the service of external transparency goals. \nAbout the Speaker \nUmang Bhatt is a Ph.D. candidate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge. His expertise lies in human-machine collaboration and in trustworthy machine learning\, spanning the fairness\, robustness\, and explainability of AI systems. He studies how to create AI systems that explain their predictions to stakeholders\, leverage stakeholder expertise for better human-machine team performance\, and interact with stakeholders to account for their goals and values. Currently\, Umang is an Enrichment Student at The Alan Turing Institute and a Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Previously\, he was a Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation and a Research Fellow at the Partnership on AI. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. \nAbout the Young Achievers Symposium \nThe Young Achievers Symposium highlights early career researchers in diverse fields of AI for social impact. The symposium series seeks to focus on emerging research\, stimulate discussions\, and initiate collaborations that can advance research in artificial intelligence for societal benefit. All events in the series are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Penn State students\, postdoctoral scholars\, and faculty with an interest in socially responsible AI applications are encouraged to attend.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/challenges-and-frontiers-in-deploying-transparent-machine-learning-umang-bhatt-university-of-cambridge/
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SUMMARY:P&P Live! Dorothy Roberts — Torn Apart - with Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers\, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research\, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children\, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care\, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. \nThe only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing\, Torn Apart argues\, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities. \nDorothy Roberts\, an acclaimed scholar of race\, gender and the law\, is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of four books\, including Killing the Black Body\, she lives in Philadelphia. Her path breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing\, family regulation\, science\, medicine\, and bioethics. She has been featured in countless media outlets including The New York Times\, MSNBC\, NPR\, PBS\, Vice News\, CNN\, ABC\, and many others. \nRoberts will be in conversation with Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor\, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership\, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She is a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a contributing writer to The New Yorker along with other outlets.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/pp-live-dorothy-roberts-torn-apart-with-keeanga-yahmatta-taylor/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Young Achievers Symposium - Su Lin Blodgett\, Microsoft Research Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Su Lin Blodgett\, a postdoctoral researcher in the Fairness\, Accountability\, Transparency\, and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research Montréal\, will deliver a talk as part of CSRAI’s Young Achievers Symposium. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Young Achievers Symposium highlights early career researchers in diverse fields of AI for social impact. The symposium series seeks to focus on emerging research\, stimulate discussions\, and initiate collaborations that can advance research in artificial intelligence for societal benefit. All events in the series are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Penn State students\, postdoctoral scholars\, and faculty with an interest in socially responsible AI applications are encouraged to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/young-achievers-symposium-su-lin-blodgett-microsoft-research-montreal/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220404T123000
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SUMMARY:Hacking Diversity? Unseating Universalist Longings in Voluntaristic "Tech" Cultures
DESCRIPTION:About the Talk\nIn recent years\, conflicts over values and practices have emerged in hacking and free/libre and open source (FLOSS) communities\, centering around diversity and inclusion. This talk features ethnographic research on feminist hacking and “diversity” efforts in mainstream hacking and FLOSS. It explores how participants work through thorny issues of inclusion through their practices with code\, hardware\, and one another. It illustrates how there is more at stake in “hacking diversity” than a politics of representation can capture\, and argues that how diversity advocates bound their interventions matters for hacking communities\, for “tech” more broadly\, and for critical analysis of tech cultures. \nAbout the Speaker\nChristina Dunbar-Hester is the author of Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton U Press\, 2020) and Low Power to the People: Pirates\, Protest\, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (MIT Press\, 2014). She is a faculty member in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California\, in Los Angeles\, USA\, and she holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University. She is currently writing Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond\, under contract with University of Chicago Press.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/hacking-diversity-unseating-universalist-longings-in-voluntaristic-tech-cultures/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220401T143000
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SUMMARY:"Mind the Gap: From Predictions to ML-Informed Decisions” - Maria De-Arteaga\, University of Texas at Austin
DESCRIPTION:“Mind the Gap: From Predictions to ML-Informed Decisions” \nMachine learning (ML) is increasingly being used to support decision-making in many organizational settings. However\, there is currently a gap between the design and evaluation of ML algorithms and the functional role of these algorithms as tools for decision support. The first part of the talk will highlight the role of humans-in-the-loop\, and the importance of evaluating decisions instead of predictions\, through a study of the adoption of a risk assessment tool in child maltreatment hotline screenings. The second part of the talk will focus on the gap between the construct of interest and the proxy that the algorithm optimizes for. Using a proposed machine learning methodology that extracts knowledge from experts’ historical decisions\, De-Arteaga shows that in the context of child maltreatment hotline screenings (1) there are high-risk cases whose risk is considered by the experts but not wholly captured in the target labels used to train a deployed model\, and (2) we can bridge this gap if we purposefully design with this goal in mind. \nAbout the Speaker \nMaria De-Arteaga is an assistant professor at the Information\, Risk and Operation Management (IROM) Department at the University of Texas at Austin\, where she is also a core faculty member in the Machine Learning Laboratory and an affiliated faculty of Good Systems. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Public Policy and a M.Sc. in Machine Learning\, both from Carnegie Mellon University\, and a. B.Sc. in Mathematics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her research focuses on the risks and opportunities of using machine learning to support experts’ decisions in high-stakes settings\, with a particular interest in algorithmic fairness and human-AI collaboration. Her work has been featured by UN Women and Global Pulse and has received best paper awards at NAACL’19 and Data for Policy’16\, and research awards from Google and Microsoft Research. \nAbout the AI for Social Impact Seminar Series \nThe AI for Social Impact Seminar Series brings together researchers and thought leaders from a variety of fields to explore the diverse applications of artificial intelligence for a societal benefit. Through the series\, the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence aims to inspire new ideas and collaborations and to identify novel approaches that can advance discovery in the field at Penn State and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/mind-the-gap-from-predictions-to-ml-informed-decisions-maria-de-arteaga-university-of-texas-at-austin/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220331T120000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation: Every Data Point Tells a Story
DESCRIPTION:Join us on International Transgender Day of Visibility\, for a conversation on algorithms\, social media\, protective community use policies\, and how “echo chambers” can harm or protect the LGBTQIA community. The event is hosted by the School of Data Science and will be moderated by Donna Price\, Chair of the Albemarle County\, Virginia\, Board of Supervisors. Co-sponsors include the Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life\, Media Matters for America\, Gayta Science. \n  \nDonna Price\nAlbemarle County Board of Supervisors\, Chair \nDonna Price is the current Chair of the Albemarle County\, Virginia\, Board of Supervisors; and\, the first transgender person in the United States to hold the highest elected office of a County Government. Before transitioning\, she served twenty-five years on active duty in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps\, retiring as a Captain. While on active duty in the Navy she served as a Prosecutor\, Defense Counsel\, and Military Trial Judge; was Commanding Officer of the largest legal office in the Department of the Navy; and served as a Legislative Liaison where she was responsible for all Medical and Personnel issues affecting the Navy before Congress. During her civilian career she was a Senior Vice-President\, Privacy and Compliance and Chief Compliance Officer of a healthcare provider in the military’s TRICARE arena and also served as General Counsel for a Defense Contractor. In her private practice of law she has specialized in representing individuals in Security Clearance adjudications as well as having represented individuals in Federal Criminal Trials. \n\nKayla Gogarty\nMedia Matters\, Associate Research Director\n@ohhkaygo \nKayla is an associate research director at Media Matters\, where she has worked since September 2018. She holds a master’s degree in chemistry research from Stony Brook University and has a background in LGBTQ media and advocacy. She previously worked as an LGBTQ opposition researcher at Media Matters and prior to that interned at the Human Rights Campaign. In her current role\, Kayla monitors social media platform policies and enforcement of these policies. \n\nKelsey Campbell\nGayta Science\, Founder\n(they/she) \nKelsey Campbell is a data scientist and founder of Gayta Science\, a site devoted to highlighting the LGBTQ+ experience using data science and analytics. With a growing team of volunteer analysts\, designers\, researchers\, and developers\, Gayta Science is devoted to investigating a variety of LGBTQ+ issues using data-driven techniques and open-source technology. Kelsey has industry experience in public health research\, software development\, and government consulting. They are interested in the social justice impacts of media manipulation\, mis/disinformation\, and online influence. \n\nJess Reia\nUVA School of Data Science\, Assistant Professor \nJess Reia is Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia. Before joining UVA\, they were appointed as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University and 2020-2021 BMO Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal. From 2011 to 2019\, Reia worked as Professor and Project Manager at the Center for Technology & Society at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro. They work on public interest advocacy and research that addresses power relations between technologies\, spaces\, and people. \n\nFrancesca Tripodi\nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, Center for Information and Library Science\, Assistant Professor \nDr. Francesca Tripodi is a sociologist and media scholar whose research examines the relationship between social media\, political partisanship\, and digital inequality. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and a Senior Research at the Center for Information Technology and Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill.  She holds a PhD and MA in sociology from the University of Virginia\, as well as an MA in communication\, culture\, and technology from Georgetown University. \nIn 2019\, Tripodi testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on her research\, explaining how search engines and processes are gamed to maximize exposure and drive ideologically based queries. This research is the basis of her upcoming book with Yale University Press titled The Propagandists’ Playbook. In an attempt to improve media literacy\, she and a team of researchers were awarded an NSF Accelerator grant on Media Trust and Authenticity with partners at MIT\, Stanford\, and University of Washington. Recently\, her research on patterns of gender inequality on Wikipedia\, was featured on NPR All Things Considered. \nHer research has been covered by The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, NPR\, The Columbia Journalism Review\, Wired\, Slate\, The Guardian and The Neiman Journalism Lab.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/a-conversation-every-data-point-tells-a-story/
LOCATION:University of Virginia School of Data Science
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SUMMARY:Equity + Ethics in Data Workshop Series: Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:Equitable and ethical data practices empower healthcare professionals\, medical practitioners\, data experts\, and leaders in mitigating harm and promoting the eradication of health disparities. Join us and strengthen your skills in this 4-week workshop. \n\n\n\n\nCourse outline \nSession 1: March 31 – Intro to health equity\nSession 2: April 7 – Data equity in healthcare\nSession 3: April 14 – Considerations for algorithms in healthcare\nSession 4: April 21 – Addressing racism in healthcare data \nWho is this for? \nThis program is for (1) healthcare professionals who work with data\, (2) technologists who work in the healthcare space and (3) students in emerging healthcare fields. \nWhat’s in it for you? \nAfter participating in this workshop\, you will be able to: \nUnderstand how data equity/ethics issues impact your specific context\, and how to identify the best opportunities to make changes \nAlign your data practices with your organization’s DEI goals\, and show tangible action toward those goals \nDesign a step-by-step roadmap for implementing better practices in your team and organization
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/equity-ethics-in-data-workshop-series-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T100000
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SUMMARY:Building with\, not for: A Case Study of Community-Driven Employment Innovations
DESCRIPTION:Race and technology are closely intertwined\, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years\, it is only one of the many ways that technology and race intersect in computer science\, public health\, digital media\, gaming\, surveillance\, and other domains. To build inclusive technologies that empower us all\, we must understand how technologies and race construct one another and with what consequences. \nPresentation by Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt \n  \nAbstract: \nTechnology presents a force for positive change; however\, technology has perpetuated racism and deepened social inequality and injustice seen in society. There are many reasons for these injustices within our design and development practices alone. Our underlying assumptions about who has access to technology inherently exclude the most negatively impacted. These voices are often missing from the design\, development\, and evaluation process. Their insight and genius are often missing from the technological narratives that we tell. However\, it is unclear what approaches practitioners should take going forward and what steps they might take to integrate these approaches into their existing process. This presentation aims to unpack ways for practitioners to begin combatting the design\, development\, and deployment of technologies that reinforce and perpetuate racial inequality while designing tools that align with the values and strengths of communities. \nIn this presentation\, I present our process to develop employment tools for and with minoritized job seekers living in Southeastern Michigan. I discuss challenges and missteps when designing for rather than with job seekers\, despite taking user-centered design approaches. I discuss what we learned from our missteps\, and share a promising approach using a combination of co-design and agile development when designing with job seekers. I then discuss our decision to move beyond building digital tools to developing capacity-building interventions and exploring speculative design alongside communities. These approaches build on a community’s strengths\, incorporate their values\, and create spaces for new narratives to be imagined.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/building-with-not-for-a-case-study-of-community-driven-employment-innovations/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20220330T083000
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SUMMARY:Queer in AI: Making AI Queer-Inclusive and Prioritizing Grassroots D&I Activism
DESCRIPTION:Trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important topic because trust in AI systems and their creators has been lost. Researchers\, corporations\, and governments have long and painful histories of excluding marginalized groups from technology development\, deployment\, and oversight. As a result\, these technologies are less useful and even harmful to minoritized communities. We argue that any AI development\, deployment\, and monitoring framework that aspires to trust must incorporate both feminist\, non-exploitative participatory design principles and strong\, outside\, and continual monitoring and testing. We additionally explain the importance of considering aspects of trustworthiness beyond just transparency\, fairness\, and accountability\, specifically\, to consider justice and shifting power to the disempowered as core values to any trustworthy AI system. Creating trustworthy AI starts by funding\, supporting\, and empowering grassroots organizations like Queer in AI so the field of AI has the diversity and inclusion to credibly and effectively develop trustworthy AI. We explain what Queer in AI is\, the mission of the organization\, and the initiatives that Queer in AI runs (from community education and empowerment to policymaking and advocacy). We then leverage the expert knowledge Queer in AI has developed through its years of work and advocacy to discuss if and how gender\, sexuality\, and other aspects of queer identity should be used in datasets and AI systems and how harms along these lines should be mitigated. Based on this\, we share a gendered approach to AI and further propose a queer epistemology and analyze the benefits it can bring to AI. We additionally discuss how to regulate AI with this queer epistemology in vision\, proposing frameworks for making policies related to AI & gender diversity and privacy & queer data protection. \n 
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/queer-in-ai-making-ai-queer-inclusive-and-prioritizing-grassroots-di-activism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:"The Quest for Ethical Artificial Intelligence” - Timnit Gebru\, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
DESCRIPTION:“The Quest for Ethical Artificial Intelligence” \nThe Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) was launched in December 2021 by Timnit Gebru as a space for independent\, community-rooted AI research\, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence. Gebru believes that the harms embedded in AI technology are preventable and that when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and deliberate processes\, it can be put to work for people\, rather than against them. With DAIR\, Gebru aims to create an environment that is independent from the structures and systems that incentivize profit over ethics and individual well-being. In this talk\, Gebru will discuss why she founded DAIR and what she hopes this interdisciplinary\, community-based\, global network of AI researchers can accomplish. \nAbout the Speaker: \nTimnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace\, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. She received her PhD from Stanford University\, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research\, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group\, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Gebru also co-founded Black in AI\, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence\, inclusion\, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI\, and is on the board of AddisCoder\, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian high school students\, free of charge. \nAbout the Distinguished Lecture Series: \nThis event is hosted as part of the Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence’s Distinguished Lecture Series in partnership with the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The series highlights world-renowned scholars of repute who have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of socially responsible artificial intelligence. The series aims to provoke attendees and participants to have thoughtful conversations and to facilitate discussion among students\, faculty\, and industry affiliates of the Center.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-quest-for-ethical-artificial-intelligence-timnit-gebru-distributed-artificial-intelligence-research-institute/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327
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CREATED:20211209T180548Z
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SUMMARY:Technologies of Deception Conference
DESCRIPTION:In the half-decade since the 2016 election\, misinformation bots have been prominent in research agendas in law\, political science\, and other fields\, as scholars have increasingly documented the extent to which such forces were both operational and impactful. The perceived threat\, one that was closely watched in the 2020 election\, was to the proper functioning of our democratic systems\, both at the polls and in the tenor and quality of public discourse. In short\, algorithms that created seemingly human entities had threatened much that democratic societies hold dear. But this was not the only instance of machine imposters\, as deceptive technologies present in manifold forms\, from misinformation bots and fake news to deepfakes and robot “performance videos”: countless technologies that function to conflate truth and falsity\, mentation and computation\, authenticity and falsehood\, or that function not to deceive but rather to manipulate. Moreover\, technologies are being developed to deceive the deceivers\, and those in the behavioral sciences are working to understand trust and deception and the cognitions that facilitate them.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/technologies-of-deception-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220322T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220322T170000
DTSTAMP:20220225T171332Z
CREATED:20220225T171332Z
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SUMMARY:System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot It
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n“Enough with the breathless dreams of digital utopias and poisonous polemics about technological dystopias! In System Error\, we finally have a book about the digital revolution that is serious rather than sensationalistic. Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way.”\n— Reed Hastings\, co-founder and CEO of Netflix\nJoin Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein\, Stanford professors and co-authors of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot It\, in a conversation moderated by Virginia Heffernan\, host of This Is Critical\, at Betaworks Studios on March 22nd.\nIn System Error\, Sahami\, Weinstein and Reich reveal the discrimination\, privacy issues\, and misinformation produced in big techs eternal pursuit of optimization. Come ready to discuss tech’s blindspots and how we can reform big tech’s role in our everyday lives. \nModerator Bio:\nVirginia Heffernan is the host of “This Is Critical\,” a talk show of cultural criticism\, on Stitcher. She is also a columnist at WIRED\, and the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art. \nAuthor Bios:\nRob Reich is a philosopher\, the director of Stanford University’s Center for Ethics in Society\, co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society\, and associate director of its new Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. A former sixth grade teacher\, he has won multiple teaching awards at Stanford. He helped to create the global movement #GivingTuesday and serves as chair of its board. He is a co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot. \nMehran Sahami was recruited to Google in its start-up days by Sergey Brin and is one of the inventors of email spam-filtering technology. With a background in machine learning and artificial intelligence\, he returned to Stanford as a computer science professor in 2007 and now holds the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professorship in Engineering. As the Associate Chair for Education in the computer science department\, he helped redesign the program’s undergraduate curriculum. He is one of the instructors of Stanford’s massive introductory computer programming course taken by nearly 1\,500 students per year. Mehran is also a limited partner in several VC funds and serves as an adviser to high-tech start-ups. He is a co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot. \nJeremy M. Weinstein\, a political scientist\, went to Washington with President Obama in 2009. A key staffer in the White House\, he foresaw how new technologies might remake the relationship between governments and citizens and launched Obama’s Open Government Partnership. When Samantha Power was appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations\, she brought Jeremy to New York\, first as her chief of staff and then as her deputy. He returned to Stanford in 2015 as a professor of political science\, where he now leads Stanford Impact Labs\, a major university initiative that partners research teams with leaders in the public\, private\, and social sectors to tackle important social problems. He is a prizewinning author and a decorated teacher whose expertise spans domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy. He is a co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/system-error-where-big-tech-went-wrong-and-how-we-can-reboot-it/
LOCATION:Betaworks Studios\, 29 Little West 12th Street\, New York\, 10014\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220316T130000
DTSTAMP:20220225T163515Z
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SUMMARY:Technology for the Vulnerable - Studies in Designing for Access to Basic Needs
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Ronald Metoyer \nAbstract:\nThe divide between the “haves” and “have-nots” in today’s society is greater than ever and one could argue that technology is largely developed in service to the “haves” where there is a clear financial incentive.  There is simply little money to be made from vulnerable populations (e.g.\, economically disadvantaged\, homeless\, elderly) that largely make up the “have nots”.  Nonetheless\, many computational technological innovations can play an important role in serving those in need. \nIn this talk\, I will present two case studies of the application of technology in service to some of our most vulnerable in society.  In the CARENet project\, we engaged with stakeholders in the social services realm to understand barriers to access and to design and develop prototype technology in support of improved access.  Most recently\, we’ve launched the Food Information Networks (FINs) project that aims to address food “inequity” by facilitating physical access to food as well as access to the information necessary to make informed healthy food choices.  Through these projects\, I’ll illustrate our highly interdisciplinary approach to design and development\, and I’ll highlight some of the insights uncovered and what they mean for design in this context. \nBio:\nRonald Metoyer is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.  He earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California\, Los Angeles (1994) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2002)\, where he was a member of the Graphics\, Visualization\, and Usability (GVU) Center.  Ron’s primary research interest is in human-computer interaction with a particular emphasis on the subfield of information visualization.  His work focuses on multivariate data visualization\,  decision making\, and narrative visualizations.  He has published over 65 papers and is the recipient of a 2002 NSF CAREER Award.  Ron has been involved in broadening participation in computing activities throughout his career. He has served in several roles including multiple years on the program committee of the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference\, as a project leader for CMD-IT\, and most recently as a steering committee member for BPCNet.org
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/technology-for-the-vulnerable-studies-in-designing-for-access-to-basic-needs/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220313T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220814T170000
DTSTAMP:20220614T172705Z
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Dinkins: | Queens Museum
DESCRIPTION:The Queens Museum is pleased to present Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data\, organized by Stamps Gallery\, University of Michigan. This is the first survey of the renowned transmedia artist\, who creates platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence as it intersects race\, gender\, aging\, and our future histories. Dinkins’ practice encourages action towards making artificial intelligence systems more inclusive and transparent via art production and exhibition\, community-based workshops\, and public speaking.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/stephanie-dinkins-queens-museum/
LOCATION:Queens Museum\, New York City\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220309T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220309T193000
DTSTAMP:20220225T170616Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Decentralization: Equity\, Democracy\, and Human Rights in Web3
DESCRIPTION:About this event\nAmidst the massive hype and investment\, Web3 has faced considerable pushback. Much of the criticism has been dismissive of the technology and community outright. On the other hand\, many of Web3’s most ardent supporters seem to believe that decentralization is necessarily a path towards a better world\, echoing some of the same idealism that has arguably resulted in many of the shortcomings of web2.\nThis panel will explore the middle ground — does the technology underpinning web3 present real opportunities for building a better world? What are some of the inherent drawbacks and opportunities and how can we design and plan for them? How can we truly be more intentional about building an internet that advances equity\, democracy\, and human rights? How can we address issues like accountability\, consent\, and access? Our panelists will speak to these questions from a range of capacities — from investing\, building new technologies\, and creating new organizations in web3. \nSPEAKERS:\nJomayra Herrera\nJomayra was born in Orlando\, Florida to two parents who always believed that education was one of the few things that no one could ever take from you. With that mindset\, Jomayra devoted herself to her studies and eventually became the first person in her family to go to college. She started her career as an operator at an edtech startup\, BloomBoard. Before Reach\, Jomayra worked on the venture investing team at Emerson Collective (Laurene Powell Jobs’ family office) and Cowboy Ventures. Before Reach\, companies she’s invested in include Career Karma\, Handshake\, Contra\, and The Landing. \nAustin Robey\nAustin Robey is a founding member of Metalabel\, Ampled\, Unnamed Fund\, and Dinner DAO. He also teaches Music and Platform Cooperativism at The New School in New York City. \nAnjana Rajan\nAnjana Rajan is a cryptographer working at the nexus of human rights and national security. She is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Polaris\, the largest anti-human trafficking NGO in the United States. At Polaris\, Anjana is architecting Polaris’s web3 & human rights strategy\, is the creator of the “Mission Engineering” methodology\, and built a robust strategy to defend the organization against disinformation threats by violent extremist groups.\nAnjana has a prolific career as a public interest technologist. She is the former CTO of Callisto\, a nonprofit that builds tech to combat sexual assault. She currently is a Visiting Practitioner at Cornell Tech and was a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She has served as an independent consultant for the Homeland Security Advisory Council and has testified before Congress.\nAnjana is a former Y Combinator founder\, a Palantir alum\, and a graduate from Cornell University’s engineering school. She is also a former elite triathlete who raced for Team USA. \nStartups and Society Initiative\nSSI a non-profit project whose mission is to support founders and investors in building and funding more equitable\, socially responsible\, and world-positive companies.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/beyond-decentralization-equity-democracy-and-human-rights-in-web3/
LOCATION:Betaworks Studios\, 29 Little West 12th Street\, New York\, 10014\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220309T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220309T170000
DTSTAMP:20220222T162841Z
CREATED:20220222T162841Z
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SUMMARY:The Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender: Algorithmic Exclusion In Body Composition Analysis And Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Companies such as Withings and Fitbit tout composition analysis as providing self-knowledge and the ability to make more informed decisions. However\, these aspirational statements elide the reality that these numbers are a product of proprietary regression equations that require a binary sex/gender as their input. In this talk\, we’ll discuss results from a recent paper that combines transgender studies-influenced personal narrative with an analysis of the scientific basis behind the bioimpedance technology used as part of the Withings smart scale. Attempting to answer the question of how to include nonbinary people reveals that bioelectrical impedance analysis has always rested on physiologically shaky ground\, with White nonbinary people being merely the tip of the iceberg of those who may find that their smart scales is not so intelligent when it comes to their bodies. Using body composition analysis as an example\, we explore how the problem of trans and nonbinary inclusion in personal health tech goes beyond the issues of adding a third “gender” box or slapping on a rainbow flag on some packaging.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-whole-thing-smacks-of-gender-algorithmic-exclusion-in-body-composition-analysis-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220309T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220309T143000
DTSTAMP:20220222T161932Z
CREATED:20220222T161932Z
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SUMMARY:PHRGE Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Join Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE)! \nThe Coming Good Society\nA Conversation with the Authors\, William F. Schulz and Sushma Raman \nThis event will be virtual. PLEASE REGISTER to obtain a Zoom link. \nModerator: Elizabeth Ennen\, Director of PHRGE \nCo-sponsored by the Ethics Institute and the Department of Philosophy and Religion \nAbout The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights \nA rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is exploding—not just animals but ecosystems and even robots. Changes in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rights: What new rights\, for example\, are needed if we understand gender to be nonbinary? Does living in a corrupt state violate our rights? And emerging technologies demand that we think about old rights in new ways: When biotechnology is used to change genetic code\, whose rights might be violated? What rights\, if any\, protect our privacy from the intrusions of sophisticated surveillance techniques? \nDrawing on their vast experience as human rights advocates\, William Schulz and Sushma Raman challenge us to think hard about how rights evolve with changing circumstances\, and what rights will look like ten\, twenty\, or fifty years from now. Against those who hold that rights are static and immutable\, Schulz and Raman argue that rights must adapt to new realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance. To preserve and promote the good society—one that protects its members’ dignity and fosters an environment in which people will want to live—we must at times rethink the meanings of familiar rights and consider the introduction of entirely new rights. \nNow is one of those times. The Coming Good Society details the many frontiers of rights today and the debates surrounding them. Schulz and Raman equip us with the tools to engage the present and future of rights so that we understand their importance and know where we stand.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/phrge-book-event/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220308T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220308T193000
DTSTAMP:20220225T165523Z
CREATED:20220225T165523Z
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SUMMARY:PH x College: Socially-Conscious Design Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:With the rise of shareable graphics about social justice\, socially-conscious design has become an incredibly important component of our daily media intake. A diverse panel of artists will discuss their journeys\, ethos\, and the thought processes that influence their practices. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A\, where panelists will engage with participants about design ethics and their political implications.  \nCome for the deep conversation\, stay for the raffle! Poster House merchandise valued at $25 will be given to raffle winners.*  \n*US residents only \nPH x College is an ongoing series of programs designed by college students for college students and recent graduates who are interested in pursuing careers in art\, design\, or museums\, with an emphasis on providing professional development\, networking. and creative workshop opportunities.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/ph-x-college-socially-conscious-design-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220304T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220304T130000
DTSTAMP:20220225T164933Z
CREATED:20220225T164933Z
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SUMMARY:Annenberg Conversations: Why Black Women Media Makers Matter
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Jackson and Sara Lomax-Reese will discuss why black women owned media matters and the challenges faced by women in media \nAbout this event​\nProfessor Sarah Jackson and Sara Lomax-Reese (C’87) will discuss why black women owned media matters and the challenges faced by women in media. \nAbout the Speakers\nSara Lomax-Reese is the President and CEO of WURD Radio\, LLC\, Pennsylvania’s only African-American owned talk radio station. She is credited with transforming WURD Radio from a legacy talk radio station to a multimedia communications company providing cutting edge\, original programming on air\, online and through community events. In 2017\, Sara led the expansion of 900AM-WURD to the FM dial\, now simulcasting on both 900AM and 96.1FM. In 2018\, Sara spearheaded the launch of an environmental justice journalism platform called ecoWURD.com. And in 2019 she launched a new initiative called Lively-HOOD focused on jobs\, career readiness and entrepreneurship to address the persistent wealth gap in the Black community. Most recently\, she co-founded a new media company called URL Media\, a network of Black and Brown owned media organizations that share content\, distribution and revenues to increase their long-term sustainability. Prior to her work with WURD Radio and URL\, in 1992 Sara co-founded HealthQuest: Total Wellness for Body\, Mind & Spirit\, a trailblazing African-American consumer health magazine that grew from a quarterly publication to a bi-monthly with a national circulation of over 500\,000. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism\, Sara has written for The Miami Herald\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, Essence Magazine\, and Modern Maturity. In 2016\, Sara contributed to a book of essays\, “Our Black Sons Matter\,” written by Black mothers of sons. And in 2018 Sara presented before the Knight Commission on Trust\, Media and Democracy\, writing an article about the topic. Last June\, Sara was sought out and featured on multiple BBC news programs\, offering commentary about the protests throughout the country and the world. She is a coach in the Major Metro Newspaper Table Stakes Program and is the Program Lead for the new BIPOC Sustainability Accelerator funded by Facebook designed to empower Black and Brown owned media organizations. \nSarah J. Jackson\, Ph.D.\, is a Presidential Associate Professor and Co-Director of\, Media\, Inequality and Change Center. Sarah J. Jackson studies how media\, journalism\, and technology are used by and represent marginalized publics\, with a focus on how communication arising from Black\, feminist\, and activist spaces contributes to US progress. Jackson’s first book\, Black Celebrity\, Racial Politics\, and the Press (Routledge\, 2014)\, examines the relationship between Black celebrity activism\, journalism\, and American politics. Her co-authored second book\, Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press\, 2020)\, focuses on the use of Twitter in contemporary social movements. As a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, she is working on a third book on the power and innovation of African American media-makers. She engages deeply with critical theories of the public sphere\, race\, and social movements throughout her work.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/annenberg-conversations-why-black-women-media-makers-matter/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220303T130000
DTSTAMP:20220118T205659Z
CREATED:20220118T205659Z
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SUMMARY:Network Book Forum: Patching Development | Rajesh Veeraraghavan\, hosted by Ranjit Singh
DESCRIPTION:Join author Rajesh Veeraraghavan for this conversation with Data & Society’s AI on the Ground Postdoctoral Researcher Ranjit Singh\, inspired by Veeraraghavan’s new book “Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India” (Oxford University Press). Provocations and Q&A follow the discussion. Buy your copy of the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/14284/9780197567821.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/network-book-forum-patching-development-rajesh-veeraraghavan-hosted-by-ranjit-singh/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220302T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220302T200000
DTSTAMP:20220224T205053Z
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SUMMARY:The History of Black Women in Graphic Design
DESCRIPTION:Poster House is thrilled to welcome Dr. Cheryl D. Miller and Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton for an evening celebrating the contributions of Black women to the field of graphic design. Accomplished designers in their own right\, Miller & Arceneaux-Sutton will join forces to uplift the legacy of Black women designers\, paying special attention to those that have shaped poster history. They’ll shed new light on these deeply important graphic artists\, highlighting their rightful place in design history while honoring the continued legacy of Black women in the field. This talk is for everyone from those new to design history to the seasoned professional—all attendees will learn something new\, and questions are strongly encouraged! \nCheryl Miller is a national leader of Minority Rights\, Gender\, Race Diversity\, Equality\, Equity\, and Inclusion advocacy in Graphic Design. She is founder of Cheryl D. Miller Design\, Inc.\, N.Y.C.\, a Social Impact Design firm; she is a designer\, author\, trade writer for PRINT Magazine\, CA Communication Arts Magazine\, a revisionist\, decolonizing historian and theologian. The Cheryl D. Miller Collection at Stanford University is her legacy professional firm’s archive\, including her memoir research and manuscripts. The collection features D&I initiative\, Corporate Communications developed for Fortune 500 corporations\, and Corporate Communications for National African American organizations developed post Civil Rights Era\, 1974–1994. She is Distinguished Senior Lecturer\, University of Texas\, Austin Design. She is a member of The Board of Trustees\, Vermont College of Fine Arts and The President’s Global Advisory Board\, Maryland Institute College of Art. \nShe is the AIGA Medalist 2021\, “Expanding Access;” The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awardee\, “Design Visionary” and the IBM Honorary Design Scholar\, “Eminent Luminary” 2021. \nTasheka Arceneaux-Sutton is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at NC State University and faculty in the low-residency MFA program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Arceneaux is the principal at Blacvoice Design\, a studio that specializes in branding\, electronic media\, identity\, illustration\, print\, and publication design\, for educational institutions\, non-profit organizations\, and small businesses. The use of typography has a strong presence in her work—she is a type enthusiast who enjoys hand-lettering\, typesetting\, and deconstructing type through a combination of analog and digital processes. Arceneaux has exhibited work nationally and abroad\, and in 2013\, her work was featured in Idea: International Graphic Art and Typography magazine. \n  \nArceneaux’s research focuses on discovering Black people omitted from the graphic design history canon. She’s also interested in the visual representation of Black people in the media and popular culture\, primarily through the lens of stereotypes. She is the co-curriculum designer for Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design\, from the 19th through the 21st Century—Black Design in America is a series of pre-recorded BIPOC centered history courses. Her essay “A Black Renaissance Woman: Louise E. Jefferson” is a part of a collection of essays in the book Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History. \n  \nThis online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Salvador Muñoz\, Public Programs Manager\, at salvador@posterhouse.org.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-history-of-black-women-in-graphic-design/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220302T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220302T170000
DTSTAMP:20220224T210111Z
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SUMMARY:CAFe Speaker Series & Black Communication & Technology Lab present: Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nDr. Nettrice Gaskins refers to three main modes of TVC activity: reappropriation\, remixing\, and improvisation\, to guide people from research into practice. Drawing on real-world examples\, she shows how TVC creates dynamic learning environments where underrepresented ethnic students feel that they belong. Students who remix computationally\, for instance\, have larger toolkits of computational skills with which to connect cultural practices to STEAM subjects; reappropriation offers a way to navigate cultural repertoires; improvisation is firmly rooted in cultural and creative practices. With algorithms and machine learning as her media\, Gaskins explores what she calls “techno-vernacular creativity” with her artistic practice. Gaskins uses an A. I. neural network application to create images. The process synthesizes an image of each subject with other patterns to create new aesthetic vocabulary beyond the scope of human thought. Her images open new frontiers of artistic expression while posing moral and ethical questions about future uses of A.I. \nBio:\nDr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist\, academic\, cultural critic\, and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work\, she explores “techno-vernacular creativity” and Afrofuturism. \nDr. Gaskins teaches\, writes\, “fabs”\, and makes art using algorithms and machine learning. She has taught multimedia\, visual art\, and computer science with high school students. She earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She received a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech in 2014. Currently\, Dr. Gaskins is a 2021 Ford Global Fellow and the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University. Her first full-length book\, Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation is available through The MIT Press. \nGaskins served as Board President of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (The Alliance) and was on the board of the Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNet). She is currently on the board of Artisan’s Asylum.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/cafe-speaker-series-black-communication-technology-lab-present-techno-vernacular-creativity-and-innovation/
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SUMMARY:Intersectional Tech: Black Praxis in Digital Gaming
DESCRIPTION:Race and technology are closely intertwined\, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years\, it is only one of the many ways that technology and race intersect in computer science\, public health\, digital media\, gaming\, surveillance\, and other domains. To build inclusive technologies that empower us all\, we must understand how technologies and race construct one another and with what consequences. \n  \n\nWith this presentation\, Dr. Kishonna L. Gray explicates the possibilities of synthesizing theories and methods from the disciplines of feminism\, critical race\, media studies\, anthropology\, among others in putting forth a critical study of intersectional technoculture. Through ethnographic examples\, she demarcate a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems—a research program that aims at contributing to a greater understanding of the cultural production and social processes involved in digital and technological culture. Using gaming as the glue that binds this project\, she put forth intersectional tech as a framework to make sense of the visual\, textual\, and oral engagements of marginalized users\, exploring the complexities in which they create\, produce\, and sustain their practices. Gaming\, as a medium often outside conversations on Blackness and digital praxis\, is one that is becoming more visible\, viable\, and legible in making sense of Black technoculture. Intersectional tech implores us to make visible the force of discursive practices that position practices within (dis)orderly social hierarchies and arrangements. The explicit formulations of the normative order are sometimes in disagreement with the concrete human condition as well as inconsistent with the consumption and production practices that constitute Black digital labor. It is\, in fact\, these practices that inform the theoretical underpinnings of Black performances\, cultural production\, exploited labor\, and resistance strategies inside oppressive technological structures that Black users reside.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/intersectional-tech-black-praxis-in-digital-gaming/
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SUMMARY:Knight Media Forum
DESCRIPTION:Join us virtually for the 15th Annual Knight Media Forum (KMF)\, February 22-24\, where we will examine current trends impacting our democracy. Top thought leaders in philanthropy\, journalism\, education\, tech and policy will share their insights and answer your questions about the hot topics across communities and the nation. KMF is the premier event for leaders across these sectors to put forward new ideas and exchange diverse perspectives. \nAt year 15 and looking forward\, Knight Media Forum provides a respected platform to discuss relevant trends affecting American society now and in the future.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/knight-media-forum/
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SUMMARY:How to Design a Digital World Where Children Can Thrive
DESCRIPTION:Today\, one in three online users is under 18\, but the original design of most digital technologies did not anticipate the use of those technologies by children. IEEE 2089™-2021\, Standard for an Age-Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children is the first in a family of standards that establishes a set of processes that helps enable organizations to make their services age-appropriate. \nJoin IEEE SA together with the 5Rights Foundation on Safer Internet Day 2022 (8 February) for a discussion on how IEEE 2089 can help create a safer digital world for children while protecting their data.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/how-to-design-a-digital-world-where-children-can-thrive/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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