About Us
FIMS Events
- Tuesday,
January 19
1Lib1Ref 2021 - Virtual Coffee Hour - Tuesday,
January 26
1Lib1Ref 2021 - Virtual Coffee Hour - Wednesday,
January 27
Riot Platforms: Protest, Police, Planet - Thursday,
January 28
Post-Degree Diploma Virtual Info Session - Thursday,
January 28
Big Data at the Margins: Digital Care and Cruelty - Friday,
January 29
FIMS Undergraduate Career Conference 2021 - Tuesday,
February 2
1Lib1Ref 2021 - Virtual Coffee Hour
FIMS Public Lectures & Seminars
Thursday,
January 14
Objectivity and the Corporate Media in Canada
Presented by Desmond Cole
2021 Clissold Lecture
Cole is a Canadian author, journalist, radio host and commentator. In 2020, he authored the book The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power.
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
January 27
Riot Platforms: Protest, Police, Planet
Presented by Nick Dyer-Witheford
2021 FIMS Seminar Series
Nick Dyer-Witheford is author of the 2019 books Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism and Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing: kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
January 28
Digital Care and Cruelty: social provisioning and deprivation
in the era of big data
Featuring Virgina Eubanks (SUNY, Albany), Sasha Costanza-Chock (MIT), and Joanna Redden (Western University)
More information about this event will be forthcoming.
7:00 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
February 3 Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam,
Noise, and Other Deviant Media
Presented by Elinor Carmi, professor, digital rights advocate, feminist, journalist, Liverpool University.
Co-sponsored by FIMS, Ryerson University and Concordia University.
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
More information.
Thursday,
February 25 Data Activism: community struggles around policing
and facial recognition technologies
Featuring Tawana Petty (Stanford PACS), Deborah Raji (Mozilla Foundation) and Anne Cavoukian (Ryerson University).
More information about this event will be forthcoming.
Time and registration TBA.
This is a public event.
Big Data at the Margins on Facebook.
Wednesday,
March 3 Transmutation: From Influence to Originality
Presented by Basil Chiasson
2021 FIMS Seminar Series
More information about this seminar will be forthcoming.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Zoom details TBA
This is a public event.
Wednesday,
March 10 Rogers Chair Event - Title TBA
Presenter TBA
Rogers Chair Event Series
Matt Stahl is the current Rogers Chair.
More information about this event will be forthcoming.
Time TBA (will be afternoon).
Zoom details TBA.
This is a public event.
Thursday,
March 18
Something Had Been Ruined Forever: Interrupting AI Ethics
Presented by Anna Lauren Hoffman, The Information School, University of Washington
Co-sponsored by FIMS, Ryerson University and Concordia University.
4:00 p.m.
Registration info TBA.
This is a public event.
Thursday,
March 25 Digital piece work: the new workers and geographies of
the digital economy
Featuring Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan), Lilly Irani (UC San Diego) and Greig de Peuter (Wilfrid Laurier University).
More information about this event will be forthcoming.
Time and registration TBA.
This is a public event.
Big Data at the Margins on Facebook.
Wednesday,
March 31 FIMS Seminar Series - Alissa Centivany - Title TBA
Presented by Alissa Centivany
2021 FIMS Seminar Series
More information about this seminar will be forthcoming.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Zoom details TBA
This is a public event.
