Visiting Speaker
Jaime Snyder: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91648623329 Meeting ID: 916 4862 3329 Passcode: misc2021 TITLE Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations SPEAKER Jaime Snyder, University of Washington ABSTRACT “How am I doing?” Personal informatics and self-tracking systems contribute to expectations that personal health and wellness questions like this can be answered with data. Visualizations play a […]
Mara Mills: Overload: Telephone Operators and Digital Labor c. 1913
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please click this link to join the webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94844940534 Or One tap mobile: US: +13017158592,,94844940534# or +13126266799,,94844940534# Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 301 715 8592 Canada: +1 204 272 7920 Webinar ID: 948 4494 0534 International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.us/u/acQwBhCroL TITLE Overload: […]
Michael Zimmer: Data Ethics During a Pandemic
How to Participate This event will be held on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91648623329 Meeting ID: 916 4862 3329 Passcode: misc2021 Title Data Ethics During a Pandemic Speaker Michael Zimmer, Marquette University Abstract COVID-19 has generated unprecedented challenges, but also many opportunities for the computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence communities to generate novel solutions for addressing […]
Lilly Irani: Claiming Democracy Over Digital Infrastructures
TO PARTICIPATE This Webinar is free and open to the public. Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91648623329 Meeting ID: 916 4862 3329 Passcode: misc2021 TITLE Claiming Democracy Over Digital Infrastructures SPEAKER Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT We work and live through layers of infrastructure designed and installed by companies and public agencies, often out […]
Dan Greene: The Promise of Access
TO PARTICIPATE This Webinar is free and open to the public. Click here to register. TITLE The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope SPEAKER Daniel Greene, University of Maryland ABSTRACT Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn […]
J. Khadijah Abdurahman: Predicting Prevention — Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This event is free and open to the public. Click here to join the event: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98631322771 This event has passed. Video of this event is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZtUnGcTZjA TITLE Predicting Prevention: Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System SPEAKER J. Khadijah Abdurahman, The American Assembly and Columbia University in conversation with Christian Sandvig, […]
Keith Breckenridge: Recasting The Technologies of the Carceral Empire
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Recasting the Technologies of the Carceral Empire: India, South Africa, and the Political Paradoxes of Post-Colonial Citizenship SPEAKER Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand in conversation with Ursula Rao, University of Leipzig ABSTRACT If India in the 19th century […]
Roderic Crooks: “People’s Community Control of Modern Technology”
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom Meeting ID: 992 9521 5958 (LINK) Passcode: 661093 (Note: For this event, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE “People’s Community Control of Modern Technology”: Community Organizers and Data […]
Rachel Kuo: Solidarities Across Platforms
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom Meeting ID: 930 5981 3180 (LINK) Passcode: 704289 (Note: For this event, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE Solidarities Across Platforms: Racial Politics and Information Practices SPEAKER […]
Kalindi Vora: Anti-Racist AI
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom Meeting ID: 931 5248 3217 (LINK) Passcode: 331064 (Note: For this event, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE Anti-racist AI SPEAKER Kalindi Vora, Yale ABSTRACT This […]