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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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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Alex Hanna on Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness\, Infrastructure\, and Genealogies of Data
DESCRIPTION:Problems of algorithmic bias are often framed in terms of lack of representative data or formal fairness optimization constraints to be applied to automated decision-making systems. However\, these discussions sidestep deeper issues with data used in AI\, including problematic categorizations and the extractive logics of crowdwork and data mining. In this talk\, I make two interventions: first by reframing of data as a form of infrastructure\, and as such\, implicating politics and power in the construction of datasets; and secondly discussing the development of a research program around the genealogy of datasets used in machine learning and AI systems. These genealogies should be attentive to the constellation of organizations and stakeholders involved in their creation\, the intent\, values\, and assumptions of their authors and curators\, and the adoption of datasets by subsequent researchers. \nAlex Hanna is a sociologist and senior research scientist working on the Ethical AI team at Google. Before that\, she was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication\, Culture\, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research centers on origins of the training data which form the informational infrastructure of AI and algorithmic fairness frameworks\, and the way these datasets exacerbate racial\, gender\, and class inequality. \nThis event is part of the 4th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. This event is co-sponsored by the Algorithmic Media Observatory and Dr. Fenwick Mckelvey.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/dr-alex-hanna-on-beyond-bias-algorithmic-unfairness-infrastructure-and-genealogies-of-data/
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SUMMARY:Network Book Forum: Digital Black Feminism | Catherine Knight Steele hosted by Serena Oduro
DESCRIPTION:Join author Catherine Knight Steele for this conversation with Data & Society’s Policy Research Analyst Serena Oduro\, inspired by Catherine Knight Steele’s new book “Digital Black Feminism” (NYU Press). Provocations and Q&A follow the discussion. Buy your copy of the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/14284/9781479808380.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/network-book-forum-digital-black-feminism-catherine-knight-steele-hosted-by-serena-oduro/
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SUMMARY:Accessibility Biases in Immersive Media Education
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce our next event for the Eyebeam Fold community! If you haven’t yet joined the Fold\, we invite you to do so now and take part in our virtual event on January 27\, 2022\, at 12 pm EST featuring artists Kevin Gotkin and Ezra Benus. In this roundtable discussion titled “Accessibility Biases in Immersive Media Education\,” they will discuss the areas of their work that address introducing accessibility pedagogy as a starting point in immersive media education and not as an afterthought. We see this bias occurring in all forms of media disciplines\, be it movement-based\, in the built environment\, physical computing\, and digitally. ASL and Cart will be provided by SignNexus. We hope you can join us. \nThroughout 2022\, Fold members will be invited to monthly virtual events\, including artist talks\, sneak peeks at Eyebeam fellows’ works in progress\, salons\, and community conversations as we put artists front and center in forging new paths toward a more just future.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/accessibility-biases-in-immersive-media-education/
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SUMMARY:Networked Feminism Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism
DESCRIPTION:Bringing together contributors of the book\, this speaker series explores how feminists employ a variety of online platforms\, practices\, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual\, consumerist\, white feminism in favor of collective\, tangible action. \nThis session approaches to exploring networking feminisms. \n\n\nMeet our Speakers: \nSpeaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism \nMelissa Brown earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of Maryland\, College Park. She currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her research uses intersectionality as an analytical framework to examine big datasets harvested from social networking sites to study the formation of identity and community. \nTara L. Conley is an interdisciplinary Black feminist scholar\, mediamaker\, and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Her research centers Black life in the study and exploration of place\, media histories\, and technoculture. You can learn more about Dr. Conley’s scholarship and multimedia projects by visiting www.taralconley.org. \nHelena Suárez Val is an activist\, producer and researcher in the areas of human rights\, feminism and digital cultures. She is on a PhD programme at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies\, University of Warwick and is co-lead\, with Catherine D’Ignazio (Data + Feminism Lab (MIT)) and Silvana Fumega (ILDA)\, on Data Against Feminicide\, an action-research project. Since 2015\, she maintains feminicidiouruguay.net\, a database and map of gender-related violent deaths of women in Uruguay. \nMeet our Hosts: \nShana MacDonald is Associate Professor in Communication Arts and the current President of the Film Studies Association of Canada. \nBrianna I. Wiens (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. \nDr. MacDonald and Dr. Wiens are co-directors of the qcollaborative (qLab)\, a feminist design lab dedicated to developing new forms of relationality through technologies of public performance.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/networked-feminism-speaker-series-session-1-conceptual-frameworks-for-networked-feminism/
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SUMMARY:The PITCh: Ai Snake Oil\, A Chat with Arvind Narayanan and Frank Pasquale
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Narayanan is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University\, at Princeton University\, and Prof. Pasquale is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. \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-ai-snake-oil-a-chat-with-arvind-narayanan-and-frank-pasquale/
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SUMMARY:Research area: Human Computer Interaction & Software Engineering
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\nTawanna Dillahunt is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UMSI) and holds a courtesy appointment with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Working at the intersection of human-computer interaction; environmental\, economic\, and social sustainability; and equity\, her research investigates and implements technologies to support the needs of marginalized people. She and her team have designed and developed digital employment tools that address the needs of job seekers with limited digital literacy and education; assessed real-time ridesharing and online grocery delivery applications among lower-income and transportation-scarce groups\, and proposed models for novice entrepreneurs to build their technical capacity. Tawanna is an inaugural recipient of the Skip Ellis Early Career Award and was recently named an ACM Distinguished Member. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University\, an M.S. in Computer Science from the Oregon Health and Science University\, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. She was also a software engineer at Intel Corporation for seven years.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/research-area-human-computer-interaction-software-engineering/
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SUMMARY:Network Book Forum: The Distance Cure | Hannah Zeavin with Dr. Romy Gad el Rab and Livia Garofalo
DESCRIPTION:Join author Hannah Zeavin for this conversation with Data & Society’s Health and Data researcher Livia Garofalo and psychiatrist Dr. Romy Gad el Rab\, inspired by Zeavin’s new book “The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy” (MIT Press). Provocations and Q&A follow the discussion.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/network-book-forum-the-distance-cure-hannah-zeavin-with-dr-romy-gad-el-rab-and-livia-garofalo/
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SUMMARY:The Future of Speech Online: Making Transparency Meaningful
DESCRIPTION:Transparency is in high demand in tech policy: Advocates are calling for more information to help fight discrimination and empower users to speak online\, researchers are seeking access to data to better understand the online environment\, and lawmakers are demanding answers from tech companies at high-profile hearings. Whether people are concerned about online services restricting too much\, too little\, or not the right speech\, everyone seems to agree that more transparency would improve the status quo. But what do we mean by transparency? What kinds of information do people actually want\, and what problems will it help us solve? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe fifth annual Future of Speech Online event on December 14-16\, 2021\, will tackle these questions as we explore this year’s theme of “Making Transparency Meaningful.”
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-future-of-speech-online-making-transparency-meaningful/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211214T130000
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SUMMARY:Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s
DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw on research from “Wearing Many Hats\,” a forthcoming Data & Society report authored by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman. Dr. Coleman describes her talk as follows: \nOur report examines the transformative period in which many hackers moved from a vilified underground subculture into a domain of respected professionalism\, playing a privileged role in establishing contemporary cybersecurity protocols and agendas. \nMy talk will concentrate on the ways that a select group of hackers secured their legitimacy by engaging with journalists\, popularizing the terminology of gray hat hacking\, releasing sensational tools to demonstrate security vulnerabilities\, and calling out Microsoft for their shoddy security. \nThis case study allows us to ask a broader series of questions about security: How are issues nominated as matters of concern? How might those operating outside the security establishment influence the security agenda? What does it mean that a domain so consistently equated with technical matters relies on social processes\, like media spectacle and extra-institutional collaboration?
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/security-by-spectacle-the-invention-of-gray-hat-hacking-the-fight-against-microsoft-in-the-1990s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211208T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211208T120000
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Jasmine McNealy\, University of Florida
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nJasmine McNealy\, Associate Professor\, College of Journalism and Communications\, University of Florida
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series-jasmine-mcnealy-university-of-florida/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211207T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211207T130000
DTSTAMP:20211109T151212Z
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SUMMARY:Technology for Social Good? AI\, Human Rights\, and Harm Reduction with Dr. Jay Aronson
DESCRIPTION:The volume of information available to human rights practitioners has grown steadily since the globalization of Internet access and the widespread adoption of smartphones across geographies\, cultures\, and socioeconomic classes. This vast material landscape creates an unprecedented visual record of the experiences of a significant percentage of humanity. When properly collected and analyzed\, this material can help human rights analysts\, fact-finders\, and researchers reconstruct war crimes\, human rights violations\, and terrorist acts taking place in locations that offer limited or no physical access. At the same time\, practitioners and organizations have been confronted with new challenges in dealing with the collection of massive amounts of data from a distance. This situation has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis as travel has become restricted and researchers\, analysts\, and fact-finders must rely on online digital information to investigate and validate claims of human rights abuse. In this talk\, Dr. Aronson will describe two case studies of how he and his colleagues have confronted these challenges with partners from across the human rights domain. He will pay particular attention to ethical approach that is taken in doing their work.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/technology-for-social-good-ai-human-rights-and-harm-reduction-with-dr-jay-aronson/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211201T203000
DTSTAMP:20211109T151026Z
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SUMMARY:From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon
DESCRIPTION:First emerging from the anonymous imageboard 4chan\, Anonymous found its activist sea legs in 2008 during a worldwide protest campaign against the Church of Scientology. Not long after\, Anonymous surged in visibility and popularity as hackers used the name to lay claim to high-profile hacktivist actions. Other groups and individuals used it to coordinate dozens of political operations\, often supporting social justice movements. A decade later\, after Anonymous activity waned\, different movements and currents\, like the anonymous far-right and the conspiracy theorists QAnon had sprung forth from similar anonymous imageboards. Like Anonymous\, these movements and currents played integral\, even outsized roles in various political arenas.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/from-busting-cults-to-breeding-cults-anonymous-hacktivism-vs-qanon-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211201T203000
DTSTAMP:20211001T021253Z
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SUMMARY:From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Biella Coleman will present From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon. Talk will be followed by Q&A period.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVirtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in English \nFirst emerging from the anonymous imageboard 4chan\, Anonymous found its activist sea legs in 2008 during a worldwide protest campaign against the Church of Scientology. Not long after\, Anonymous surged in visibility and popularity as hackers used the name to lay claim to high-profile hacktivist actions. Other groups and individuals used it to coordinate dozens of political operations\, often supporting social justice movements. A decade later\, after Anonymous activity waned\, different movements and currents\, like the anonymous far-right and the conspiracy theorists QAnon had sprung forth from similar anonymous imageboards. Like Anonymous\, these movements and currents played integral\, even outsized roles in various political arenas. \nIn contrast to Anonymous\, they often worked against the cause of social justice and\, in its stead\, supported reactionary\, racist\, conspiratorial or fascist political planks. How are we to understand this radical metamorphosis and the relationships between these currents and movements? In this talk\, I will examine the role of critical events\, translators\, and larger political forces in accounting for their differences and address issues around anonymity\, the difficulties in researching anonymous quarters of the internet\, and popular journalistic accounts in meshing together aspects of these movements that should be pried apart. In so doing\, I will make a case for careful historical analysis in media studies work and to call for the end of a class of categories\, like Internet activism\, that fails to capture the dynamics and importance of online tools for political movements today. \nGabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a cultural anthropologist\, she researches\, writes\, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism. Her first book on Free Software\, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking has been published with Princeton University Press. Her book\, “Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous\,” published by Verso\, was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. \nThis event is part of the 3rd Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. \nSeason 3 of our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research)\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, and the McGill Writing Centre. \nThere is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide captions in English.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/from-busting-cults-to-breeding-cults-anonymous-hacktivism-vs-qanon/
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SUMMARY:Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series: Dr. Sohini Ramachandran
DESCRIPTION:The initial draft sequence of the human genome\, published in 2001\, promised to usher the world towards personalized medicine\, in which a patient’s genome is used to diagnosis\, treat\, and prevent illness. Almost twenty years later\, many clinically actionable mutations have been identified and are incorporated into treatment\, and medical genomics offers exciting opportunities for data-driven discoveries about the genomic underpinnings of health. As increasingly large genomic datasets merged with medical records become available to researchers and the public turns to direct-to-consumer companies for genomic analysis\, challenging humanistic issues surrounding privacy\, preexisting conditions\, ancestry\, and kinship abound. As a human population geneticist\, I study the evolutionary forces that produce and maintain genetic variation in our species. I’ll describe a series of fundamental challenges for interpreting results from direct-to-consumer genetic testing and for making personalized medicine a reality for all.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-and-technology-a-research-lecture-series-dr-sohini-ramachandran/
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SUMMARY:Chosen by the Secret Algorithm: A Closer Look at Colombia’s Pandemic Payments
DESCRIPTION:In April 2020\, the Colombian government announced an unconditional cash transfer program to provide income to families who were deemed vulnerable to economic shocks caused by the pandemic. A mere 2 weeks after the scheme was launched\, 3 million families were notified by SMS that they had been selected as eligible and received the funds directly into their bank accounts. Rather than having those in need apply themselves\, the government independently chose eligible beneficiaries. The government did this by combining as much data as possible about its citizens\, building a new master database from 34 public and private databases\, including from private credit bureaus. This data had been collected for completely different purposes and\, in some cases\, without the knowledge of the included individuals. The master database was used to predict ‘income-generating capacity\,’ using a secret algorithm\, and thereby automatically determine who would be deserving of additional financial support during the pandemic. The Colombian approach poses a range of questions that are relevant far beyond its borders. Did it work? Who ultimately decided who was eligible\, and might such decisions be democratically controlled? Is this a move away from a neoliberal model of ‘targeting’ social benefits\, or its continuation in different form? What model of ‘datafied’ government is Colombia building within its welfare system\, and how will it affect the human rights of the most marginalized?
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/chosen-by-the-secret-algorithm-a-closer-look-at-colombias-pandemic-payments/
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SUMMARY:Cyber Partisans: An Insider's Interview on Truth\, Terror\, and Technology in the Lukashenko Regi
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Gabriella Coleman (Harvard University)\, Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University)\, and Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) \nHacktivism is on the rise\, and there’s a new\, notable crew on the block: the Cyber Partisans. Hailing from Belarus\, this collective was chartered in 2020 to fight and expose the Lukashenko regime. First hacking a TV station to stream videos of police brutality\, their tactics and interventions have become more diverse\, sophisticated\, and wide-ranging in 2021. Collaborating with former police officers and hacking into government databases\, they’ve landed and analyzed troves of leaked data that showcase everything from alleged police informants’ names to proof that the regime doctored Covid-19 death statistics to downplay the severity of the pandemic. \nTo learn more about the group’s operations and organization\, along with their history\, goals\, and successes\, please join us on Thursday\, November 18\, from 3-5 p.m. EST for an online event featuring the Cyber Partisans’ spokesperson\, Yuliana Shemetovets. She will join us live on video and communicate with several other members of the collective to answer questions from the event organizers and the audience.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/cyber-partisans-an-insiders-interview-on-truth-terror-and-technology-in-the-lukashenko-regi/
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SUMMARY:Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series: Dr. André Brock
DESCRIPTION:Race and technology are closely intertwined\, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years\, that 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\nWhere does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved\, historically disenfranchised\, and never deemed literate\, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS)\, reorienting Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as-technology” to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things”. Hence\, Black technoculture. Utilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis\, Afro-optimism\, and libidinal economic theory\, this presentation employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-and-technology-a-research-lecture-series-dr-andre-brock/
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SUMMARY:CDMC Symposium: Researching and Intervening in Digital Inequalities
DESCRIPTION:Digital infrastructure and the touchpoints it forms\, and does not form\, with people’s daily lives took on renewed significance during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Technology became the means through which people\, newly-required to work from home\, continued in employment; through which children and young people stayed connected with their schools; and through which relationships with friends and family were maintained.  It made goods and services accessible from home when shops were closed\, and provided entertainment\, news and information.  It offered a means of engaging with health services when face-to-face care was not possible.  Yet not for everyone.  For all the ways that technology created opportunities to participate and connect\, it by corollary\, compounded and amplified existing social and economic inequalities.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/cdmc-symposium-researching-and-intervening-in-digital-inequalities/
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Danaë Metaxa\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nDanaë Metaxa\, PhD\, Computer Science\, Stanford University; and incoming Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, with a secondary appointment in Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series-danae-metaxa-stanford-university/
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SUMMARY:Free Speech on Public Platforms with Professor Jamal Greene
DESCRIPTION:Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse\, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy\, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights\, Global Affairs\, and Philosophy. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book\, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence\, the series draws upon a range of scholars\, technology leaders\, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society and human life.
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/free-speech-on-public-platforms-with-professor-jamal-greene/
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Brandeis Marshall\, Spelman College
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nBrandeis Marshall\, Professor of Computer Science\, Computer and Information Sciences Department\, Spelman College
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series/
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SUMMARY:Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Ali Alkhatib\, University of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data\, engineering\, and computational science. With this series of events\, our goal is to improve how we as data scientists and data-adjacent researchers speak about race. \nAli Alkhatib\, Director\, Center for Applied Data Ethics\, University of San Francisco
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/race-data-science-lecture-series-ali-alkhatib-university-of-san-francisco/
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SUMMARY:2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies—particularly due to advances in artificial intelligence—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use. However\, this debate has often been dominated by ‘Western’ ethical perspectives\, values and interests\, to the exclusion of broader ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. Against this backdrop\, the 2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics will bring together a range of cultural\, social and structural perspectives on the ethical issues relating to digital information technologies\, with the aim of broadening the approach of digital and AI ethics. The symposium will be hosted virtually by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on November 3 and 4. Information on how to register can be found below. 
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/2021-symposium-on-intercultural-digital-ethics/
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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Data Curation: Data Journalism
DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Meredith Broussard\, Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and author of the award-winning book\, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT\, 2018). \nCritical AI’s main focal point for Fall 2021 is our Ethics of Data Curation workshop (to be held over Zoom)\, the product of a National Endowment for the Humanities and Rutgers Global sponsored international collaboration between Rutgers and the Australian National University. The lead organizers for the series are Katherine Bode and Baden Pailthorpe at ANU and Lauren M.E. Goodlad at Rutgers. All of the workshops and associated talks are free and open to the public but space is limited so please register well in advance (see schedule and registration links below). \n\n\n\n\nOur Ethics of Data Curation workshop invites you to join a network of cross-disciplinary scholars including leading thinkers on the question of data curation and data-centric machine learning technologies. Please join the discussion\, or if the time doesn’t work for you\, watch the recordings of our workshop meetings and join us on Critical AI’s blog for asynchronous conversations.\nRegister here for Meredith Broussard’s talk at 5:30 \nRegister here for the workshop discussion to follow \n\n\n\n\n\nOctober 14\, 2021 5:30PM
URL:https://just-tech.ssrc.org/event/the-ethics-of-data-curation-data-journalism/
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