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FIMS Events
- Thursday,
February 18
An Exercise with Hannah Arendt - Wednesday,
March 3
Transmutation: From Influence to Originality - Thursday,
March 4
Post-Degree Diploma Virtual Info Session - Friday,
March 5
Indigenous voices in the digital age - Tuesday,
March 9
Workshop: Research Funds & Accounts - Tuesday,
March 9
A Conversation with Author David A. Robertson - Thursday,
March 18
Something Had Been Ruined Forever: Interrupting AI Ethics
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)
7:00 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
Series website.
Series Facebook page.
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 18
An Exercise with Hannah Arendt: Looking at Public and its
Collective Responsibility for Government Violence
Presented by Sananda Sahoo.
Part of the mediations lecture series.
Sananda Sahoo is a PhD student in Media Studies in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies.
4:30 p.m.
Zoom.
This is a public event.
More information.
mediations on Facebook.
Thursday,
February 25 Digital Policing: Facial Recognition Software and Community Resistance
Featuring Tawana Petty (Stanford PACS), Deborah Raji (Mozilla Foundation) and Anne Cavoukian (Ryerson University).
7:00 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
Series website.
Series Facebook page.
Wednesday,
March 3 Transmutation: From Influence to Originality
Presented by Basil Chiasson
2021 FIMS Seminar Series
Basil Chiasson is an Assistant Professor teaching in the Creative Arts and Production program at Western University.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Register by emailing:
kueneman@uwo.ca
This is a public event.
More information.
Friday,
March 5 "I Was Trying to Drag People Into Caring": Governance, Diversity,
and Controversy in Open Technology Projects
Presented by Christina Dunbar-Hester, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.
Co-sponsored by FIMS, Ryerson University and Concordia University.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
More information.
Friday,
March 5
Indigenous voices in the digital age: using digital storytelling to
illustrate the lived experiences of urban Indigenous peoples
Featuring Percy Sherwood (Media Studies PhD candidate) and Joy SpearChief-Morris (Indigenous Student Centre at Western University).
Part of the mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Zoom.
This is a public event.
More information.
mediations on Facebook.
Tuesday,
March 9
A Conversation with Author David A. Robertson
Presented by David A. Robertson
David A. Robertson is the bestselling author of a new memoir, Black Water, and middle-grade book, The Barren Grounds, along with several other children’s books, graphic novels, and novels.
2:30 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
March 10 Making Poverty Pay: Digital Creditors, Gentrifying Landlords &
Financial Capitalism Today
Presented by Rob Aitken (Political Science, University of Alberta) and Susanne Soederberg (Tier 2 CRC in Global Political Economy, Queens University).
Co-hosted by the FIMS Rogers Chair and the Big Data at the Margins series.
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
Series website.
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.
Register now.
This is a public event.
More information.
Wednesday,
March 24
Social Selection of Algorithms
Presented by Alex Mayhew,
Part of the mediations lecture series.
Alex Mayhew is a PhD Candidate in Library & Information Science in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies.
4:30 p.m.
Zoom.
This is a public event.
More information.
mediations on Facebook.
Featuring Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan), Lilly Irani (UC San Diego) and Greig de Peuter (Wilfrid Laurier University).
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Register now.
This is a public event.
Series website.
Series Facebook page.
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.
Thursday,
April 8 Value Sensitive Design in the Twitter API
Presented by Carolyn Sullivan,
Part of the mediations lecture series.
Carolyn Sullivan has a B.Sc. in Computer Science, and is a MLIS Candidate in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies.
4:30 p.m.
Zoom.
This is a public event.
More information.
mediations on Facebook.
Thursday,
April 22 Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research
across social media platforms
Presented by Professor Anabel Quan-Haase and Media Studies PhD Candidate Darryl Pieber (both from FIMS).
Part of the mediations lecture series.
4:30 p.m.
Zoom.
This is a public event.
More information.
mediations on Facebook.
Presented by Arielle VanderSchans, Alex Mayhew and Sarah Cornwell.
Part of the mediations lecture series.
Arielle VanderSchans, Alex Mayhew and Sarah Cornwell are LIS PhD Candidates in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies.
4:30 p.m.
Zoom.
This is a public event.
More information.
mediations on Facebook.
