Hello everyone,
I want to invite you all to the next DCI talk by Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, moderated again by DCI Fellow Victoria Palacin<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/09/22/dci-fellowship-awarded-to-victori…>.
(A recording of the talk portion of the previous DCI event (Rural Pandemic Labs: Community, Science & Technology for Emergencies <http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/10/30/rural-pandemic-labs-community-sci…> ) is now posted on Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0NDjVSplIw>. It's short and wonderful to watch. SILO is an amazing organization.)
Please spread the word!
December 3th, 12 - 1 pm (ET)
Speaker: Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Online event: please register here <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dci-talk-towards-civic-socio-algorithmic-ecosys…> for zoom link.
Orestis Papakyriakopoulos is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy (https://citp.princeton.edu/ ), Princeton University. His research showcases political issues and provides ideas, frameworks, and practical solutions towards just, inclusive and participatory socio-algorithmic ecosystems through the application of data-intensive algorithms and social theories. Orestis is also the co-creator of political-dashboard.com<http://political-dashboard.com/>, a transparency project that monitors U.S. and German online politics.
In this talk, Orestis will argue that society should rethink the design of socio-algorithmic ecosystems such as social media. He will do so by describing political issues created in 3 distinct cases: 1. The interaction of users and news feed algorithms, 2. the attempt of social platforms to moderate misinformation, and 3. how social media reaction-buttons influence the political discourse. All three case studies reveal vulnerabilities emerging in the interaction of humans and technology. Based on them emerges the need to reflect on potential solutions for creating socio-algorithmic ecosystems for the society and by the society.
This thesis supports a conversation on how to design social media ecosystems that include artificial intelligence applications.
http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/11/18/dci-talk-towards-civic-socio-algo…
Prof Christoph Becker
he/him
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information
Director, Digital Curation Institute
University of Toronto
www.christoph-becker.info<http://www.christoph-becker.info/>
https://twitter.com/ChriBecker
Dear All,
We are happy to announce the third seminar as part of our new Critical
Computing seminar series this Fall. As you all know, it is a monthly online
seminar where each month we read a new book and discuss that with the
author(s) on the first Friday of the next month. The objective of the
seminar is to create a broader understanding of computing from different
ethical, social, and cultural perspectives. You will find more information
about this seminar series and upcoming speakers by following this link
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/index.html>. You
can also subscribe to our mailing list
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/criticalcomputing-thir…>
to
receive regular updates about the future speakers of this seminar.
This month (November), we are reading the book, "Critical
Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/critical-fabulations>" by Daniela K. Rosner
<https://www.hcde.washington.edu/rosner>, and we will discuss the book with
her on* Friday, Dec 4, 2-3:30 PM EST *over a Zoom meeting. We invite you
all to join the seminar. Please check this link
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/Daniela%20Rosner.html>
to
find more details about the seminar and register for the seminar here
<http://www.bit.ly/CCS03>. A flyer is also attached to this email and I
have appended the seminar details at the bottom of this email.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to *anyone* *interested* (*within
and outside UofT*). If you have access to the UofT online library, you will
be able to download and read this book for free at this link
<https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/book/8555178>.
We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar!
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque Ahmed and Robert Soden
Critical Computing Seminar Team
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/people.html>
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Seminar Details:
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DISCUSSION WITH DANIELA K. ROSNER
BOOK: CRITICAL FABULATIONS: REWORKING THE METHODS AND MARGINS OF DESIGN
4 DECEMBER, 2020 AT 2-3.30 PM, EST
The registration link: here <http://www.bit.ly/CCS03>
Find the e-book link: here
<https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/book/8555178>
Daniela K. Rosner, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design &
Engineering, University of Washington
Bio: Daniela Rosner is an Associate Professor in Human Centered Design &
Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. Her research
investigates the social, political, and material circumstances of
technology development, with an emphasis on foregrounding marginalized
histories of practice, from maintenance to needlecraft. Rosner's work has
been supported by multiple awards from the U.S. National Science
Foundation, including an NSF CAREER award. She is the author of several
articles on craft and technoculture, including “Legacies of craft and the
centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace,” Journal of New
Media & Society, 2016 and “Binding and Aging,” Journal of Material Culture,
2012. In her book, Critical Fabulations, she investigates new ways of
thinking about design’s past to rework future relationships between
technology and social responsibility (MIT Press, 2018). Rosner earned her
PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a BFA in
Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MS in Computer
Science from the University of Chicago. Rosner serves as co-Editor-in-Chief
of Interactions magazine, a bimonthly publication of ACM SIGCHI.
*Book Abstract*: In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes
redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally
situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant
paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we
historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the
development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of
innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has
become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial
economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is
considered “design” to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and
enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered
inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines
craftwork's contributions to computing innovation—how craftwork becomes
hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.
She reclaims, for example, NASA's “Little Old Ladies,” the women who built
information storage for the Apollo missions by weaving wires through
magnetized metal rings. Mixing history, theory, personal experience, and
case studies, Rosner reweaves fibers of technoscience by slowly reworking
the methods and margins of design. She suggests critical fabulations as
ways of telling stories that awaken alternative histories, and offers a set
of techniques and orientations for fabulating its future. Critical
Fabulations shows how design's hidden inheritances open different
possibilities for practice.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque Ahmed and Robert Soden
Critical Computing Seminar Team
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/people.html>
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute <https://www.torontosri.ca/>
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
My Availability: Google Calendar Link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>
Dear colleagues and students,
I want to invite you to the next event by the Digital Curation Institute<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/>, hosted by our DCI Fellow Victoria Palacin, next Thursday during lunch (12-1pm). This event will feature a voice from the Global South on a very timely topic, closely related to Victoria's project on pseudo-participation<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/09/22/dci-fellowship-awarded-to-victori…>. I very much look forward to it!
Our speaker Cinthia Mendonça is the director of Silo (https://silo.org.br/en/). She lives in the Mantiqueira Mountains in Brasil. She is also an artist and researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Cinthia has been doing non-profit transdisciplinary work in rural communities since 2011. She has been recognized for her work by the SEGIB (Ibero-American General Secretariat) and serves in this institution as a mentor of LabIC - Citizens' Innovation Laboratories.
In this talk, Cinthia will introduce the work of SILO - Art and Rural Latitude during the COVID-19 pandemic. SILO is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promote and spread art, science, and technology in rural areas and in environmental conservation units through immersive experiences and transdisciplinary practices. At its core Silo aims to promote the exchange between intuitive techniques and scientific knowledge. The organization uses different approaches to achieve its goals, such as residency programs, citizen labs, workshops, educational actions, and activities focused on the development of women, underrepresented minorities, and vulnerable populations. Silo is run by women who are committed to race and gender equality and the guarantee of sharing knowledge without harming vulnerable populations.
One of the ways SILO operationalizes the transdisciplinary exchange of knowledge is through Laboratories. A Laboratory produces different types of technologies, either linked to the technical or the social realm, taking in areas as diverse as engineering, economics, social sciences, art, and education, among many others. The laboratories are experimentation spaces in the intersection of popular, scientific, technical and artistic knowledge that are focused in creating solutions to real problems that are faced in the peripheries and the countryside. All that is lined up with the sustainable development goals established by the UN, contributing to the prosperity of producers, communities, and creators within these spheres.
During 2020, SILO has been running "Pandemic Labs" or "Emergency Labs". These are virtual spaces for strategic development. During five days of remote work, people work on solutions to the complex problems their communities face due to the COVID - 19 pandemic. The unique feature of these laboratories is that they are born to act in peripheral spaces as opposed to big urban centers. They are made in and for the margins, with a special focus on the 3.6 billion people who do not have internet in this world. Hence they create online and offline, through ingenious computer support, collaborative infrastructures, and arrangements.
The full event announcement with more background is here: http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/10/30/rural-pandemic-labs-community-sci…
The event is bi-lingual (Spanish and English), with subtitles for the talk and live translation for the Q&A.
November 5th, 12 - 1 pm (EST)
Speaker: Cinthia Mendonça, Silo - Art and Rural Latitude
Moderator: DCI Fellow<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/2020/09/22/dci-fellowship-awarded-to-victori…> Victoria Palacin
Event on Zoom: please register for link!<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dci-talk-rural-pandemic-labs-community-science-…>
Please share the word! This is a public event.
Thank you,
Christoph
Prof Christoph Becker
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information
Director, Digital Curation Institute
University of Toronto
www.christoph-becker.info<http://www.christoph-becker.info>
https://twitter.com/ChriBecker