André Brock: On Black Technoculture
Where does Blackness manifest In the ideology of Western 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.
ESC PLAN: The ESC Opening Event
A half-day public event to inaugurate the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing. Featuring: Julia Angwin (The Markup), danah boyd (Data & Society), André Brock (Georgia Tech), Marc DaCosta (Enigma), Jen Gennai (Google), Holly Okonkwo (Purdue), Monroe Price (Penn), and more.
Privacy@Michigan 2020
Privacy@Michigan 2020 brings together faculty, researchers, students, staff, and the public for multidisciplinary conversations about privacy’s role in society. Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of the New York Times Privacy Project, will give the keynote address. Additional privacy experts will participate in two panel discussions: "It Takes a Village: Multi-Disciplinary Voices on Privacy and Ethics in a Hyper-Connected Age," and "I Always Feel Like Someone Is Listening to Me: Voice Assistants and the Internet of Things."
Angela Washko: Tactical Embodiment
Angela Washko is an artist, writer, and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions about feminism in online spaces frequently hostile toward it.
Kavya Pearlman: How to Build SAFE Virtual Worlds
Kavya Pearlman is the founder of the non-profit XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the first global effort that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR), collectively known as XR.
Sarah Roberts: Behind the Screen
Faced with mounting pressures and repeated, very public crises, social media firms have taken a new tack since 2017: to respond to criticism of all kinds by acknowledging their long-obfuscated human gatekeeping workforce of commercial content moderators. In this talk, Sarah T. Roberts will offer context, history and analysis of this hidden industry, with particular attention to the emotional toll it takes on its workers.
ESC POD: Undergraduate Student Mixer
For ESC and the ESC-curious, join us to learn more about the center and a community of researchers interested in ESC topics. Get some food, play some games, talk to some people, and learn about opportunities!
David Nemer: WhatsApp and Radicalization
During the 2018 Brazilian general election, WhatsApp became a potent tool for the spread of misinformation, especially for supporters of Bolsonaro. Now, ten months into Bolsonaro’s presidency, WhatsApp is still serving as a largely hidden platform for the radicalization of right-wing Brazilians. Join us for a discussion of the hidden spaces of populism and misinformation on WhatsApp.
Nicholas Diakopoulos: Algorithms and the News
340 West Hall 1085 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesGoogle, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and other news aggregators mediate and influence a huge portion of human attention. But as private platforms, there are few public details about how their algorithms serve to drive public exposure and salience of news. What types and sources of news are made available and prioritized? What’s the quality? Are there diverse perspectives represented?
Sasha Costanza-Chock: Design Justice
Koessler Room, Michigan League 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Costanza-Chock presents an overview of their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, published by the MIT Press in 2020. The book is an exploration of how we might re-imagine design to be led by marginalized communities as a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, and support ecological survival.