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  • Charlton McIlwain: Smash the Mainframe — The Collision Between Civil Rights and Computing

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    How to Participate Watch on YouTube live during the event. Click here to sign up to receive a reminder before the event. Title Smash the Mainframe: The Collision Between Civil Rights and Computing A Conversation with Charlton McIlwain, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU and Christian Sandvig, Director of ESC. Speaker Bios Charlton is […]

  • ESC ROUTES: Covid Tech & China

    After Surveillance?  After Authoritarianism? After COVID? A Chinese-English Keywords Workshop Series February-April, 2021, Remote/Zoom Touted as border-crossing and irreverent of human differences such as nation and class, the C-19 pandemic has nonetheless become a fulcrum for slicing populations into insiders versus others. While the US promulgates histrionic demonizations of communist totalitarianism, China champions its benevolent […]

  • Ben Green: Using Algorithms in Government

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    To participate, click here to register. TITLE Using algorithms in government: Opportunities, challenges, and paths forward A conversation with Ben Green ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Ben Green, assistant professor of public policy, and Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, discuss the social and policy impacts of […]

  • Hannah Zeavin: Auto-Intimacy — Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self

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    TO PARTICIPATE This event will be streamed live via Zoom. This event is restricted to the University of Michigan unless special arrangements have been made. Click here for the participation credentials if you have logged into your University of Michigan GSuite account: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/esc-center/hannah-zeavin TITLE Auto-Intimacy: Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self Hannah Zeavin, University […]

  • Sophia Brueckner: Sci-Fi Prototyping and Critical Optimism

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    How to Participate This is a scheduled video event. At the time stated above, watch via webcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYn2vukv4gk. This stream will be simulcast by Detroit Public Television at dptv.org/pennystamps. Discussion is possible via comments on the Penny Stamps Speaker Series Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/. A recording of the event may be available […]

  • Morgan G. Ames: The Charisma Machine – The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

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    To participate, click here to register. Title The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child Abstract  Drawing on her book, The Charisma Machine, Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still […]

  • Jaime Snyder: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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 […]