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Fwd: Critical Computing Seminar (Sep 28): "Technology of the Oppressed" by David Nemer
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Dear Colleagues, The Critical Computing Seminar for the academic year 2022-2023 starts online next week. Our first speaker is Dr. David Nemer from the University of Virginia, who will discuss his newly published book, "Technology of the Oppressed." We cordially invite you to this seminar. Please find below the details for attending the seminar. Also, please feel free to forward this invitation to the people in your network who might be interested in this topic. Best Regards, Ishtiaque == Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow, Schwartz Reisman Institute <https://www.torontosri.ca/> The University of Toronto Program Committee Chair, ICTD 2022 <https://ictd.org/ictd2022/> Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 5262 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada Ph: +1 647 220 3482 web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…> == ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Priyank Chandra <priyank.chandra(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:40 PM Subject: Critical Computing Seminar (Sep 28): "Technology of the Oppressed" by David Nemer To: ISCHOOL-FAC-REG-L(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA < ISCHOOL-FAC-REG-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca> Cc: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Robert Soden < robert.soden(a)utoronto.ca>, Shion Guha <shion.guha(a)utoronto.ca>, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat <rifat(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Azhagu Meena Solai Azhagu Konar Paramanathan <meena.paramanathan(a)mail.utoronto.ca>, Adrian Petterson < a.petterson(a)mail.utoronto.ca> Dear All, We are happy to announce the *September* edition of the Critical Computing seminar series. This month Dr. David Nemer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, will present a book talk “*Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil*”, on *Wednesday, September 28, 11am to 12:30pm*. The book is Open Access and available for download <https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5266/Technology-of-the-OppressedI…> . We invite you all to join the seminar. Please check the following link for more details about the seminar: https://sites.google.com/view/uoft-critical-computing/seminar-series/david-…. The registration link is at: http://bit.ly/CCS_DavidNemer 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). The Critical Computing Seminar Series is a monthly online seminar where we invite scholars to discuss topics in critical computing. 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 past and upcoming speakers by following the link: https://sites.google.com/view/uoft-critical-computing/seminar-series. We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar. Best Regards, Priyank Chandra (On behalf of the Organizers) Assistant Professor Faculty of Information University of Toronto *Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil * *David Nemer*, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia, USA *Website:* https://www.dnemer.com/ *Twitter:* @davidnemer *Time:* 28 September, 2022 from 11AM - 12.30 PM, EST *Abstract:* In this seminar, David Nemer discusses how Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In his latest book, Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don't just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish. Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how digital technologies can simultaneously be sites of oppression and tools in the fight for freedom. Building on the work of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, he shows how the favela residents appropriate everyday technologies—technological artifacts (cell phones, Facebook), operations (repair), and spaces (Telecenters and Lan Houses)—and use them to alleviate the oppression in their everyday lives. He also addresses the relationship of misinformation to radicalization and the rise of the new far right. Contrary to the simplistic techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Yet the spirit, love, community, resilience, and resistance of favela residents make possible their pursuit of freedom. *Bio:* David Nemer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center, a Visiting Scholar in The Institute for Rebooting Social Media, and an Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University's Brazil Lab. Nemer is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022) and Favela Digital: The other side of technology (Editora GSA, 2013). He holds a MA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, an MS in Computer Science from Saarland University, and a Ph.D. in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University. Nemer has written for The Guardian, El País, The Huffington Post (HuffPost), Salon, and The Intercept_.

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Canceled event: ThirdSpace BiWeekly Meeting @ Wed Sep 21, 2022 10am - 12pm (EDT) (thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu)
by yasaman.rohani＠gmail.com 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

This event has been canceled. ThirdSpace BiWeekly Meeting Wednesday Sep 21, 2022 ⋅ 10am – 12pm Eastern Time - Toronto Location https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86806480371 https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Futoronto.zoom.us%2Fj%2F868064803… Zoom Meeting Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86806480371 Organizer yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com Guests yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com - organizer rifat(a)cs.toronto.edu ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu prianka.roy(a)mail.utoronto.ca ss3634(a)cornell.edu raam.arvind93(a)gmail.com cansu.ekmekcioglu(a)mail.utoronto.ca ishtiaque.uoft(a)gmail.com thirdspace(a)dgp.toronto.edu maryam(a)cs.toronto.edu eva.smuc(a)fer.hr dina.sabie(a)utoronto.ca rashidujjaman.rifat(a)mail.utoronto.ca ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Canceled event: ThirdSpace BiWeekly Meeting @ Wed Sep 14, 2022 10am - 12pm (EDT) (thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu)
by yasaman.rohani＠gmail.com 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

This event has been canceled. ThirdSpace BiWeekly Meeting Wednesday Sep 14, 2022 ⋅ 10am – 12pm Eastern Time - Toronto Location https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86806480371 https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Futoronto.zoom.us%2Fj%2F868064803… Zoom Meeting Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86806480371 Organizer yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com Guests yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com - organizer rifat(a)cs.toronto.edu ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu prianka.roy(a)mail.utoronto.ca ss3634(a)cornell.edu raam.arvind93(a)gmail.com cansu.ekmekcioglu(a)mail.utoronto.ca ishtiaque.uoft(a)gmail.com thirdspace(a)dgp.toronto.edu maryam(a)cs.toronto.edu eva.smuc(a)fer.hr dina.sabie(a)utoronto.ca rashidujjaman.rifat(a)mail.utoronto.ca ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Are there ways DGP members can help each other with CHI spring, managing mentalwellbeing, other things?
by Joseph Jay Williams 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

Are there ways DGP members can help each other with CHI spring, managing mentalwellbeing, other things? Just a prompt for you all to reflect, and hopefully all the new grad students are on and aware of this list as a place to discuss hci things, in addition to slack! Joseph Joseph Jay Williams, Assistant Professor, www.josephjaywilliams.com Intelligent Adaptive Interventions research group Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Dept. of Psychology & Statistical Sciences (courtesy graduate appointments – admitting PhD students) Faculty Affiliate at Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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Fwd: Call for Participants - Dissertation on AI and Immigration
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

This might interest you if you are working in the tech industry or know someone who works there. This interview is voluntary (not paid), but the questions will help you explore your position as an immigrant in Canada. Best Regards, Ishtiaque == Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow, Schwartz Reisman Institute <https://www.torontosri.ca/> The University of Toronto Program Committee Chair, ICTD 2022 <https://ictd.org/ictd2022/> Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 5262 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada Ph: +1 647 220 3482 web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…> == ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mishall Ahmed <mishall(a)yorku.ca> Date: Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 12:43 PM Subject: Call for Participants - Dissertation on AI and Immigration To: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Hi Ishtiaque, If you have the time, may I kindly request for you to share my call for participants with anyone who may be interested? It would be a great help! Kind regards, Mishall *Call for Participants Begins:* My name is Mishall Ahmed, and I am writing a dissertation at York University on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector, specifically in Canadian immigration. I am inviting participants who are associated in any capacity with, or have experience in, the fields of Immigration, Artificial Intelligence, Automation Technology, Big Tech, Public Policy, Human Rights, Refugee and or Immigration Law (broadly defined). The aim of this study is to better understand the impacts of new and emerging technologies and what this means for policy formulation in relation to race, gender, and humanitarianism in the Canadian context. I am requesting interviewees complete a 1-hour interview via audio or visual call (Zoom). Participation in this study is entirely voluntary and participants may withdraw at any time. I am happy to answer any questions. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. To learn more about this study, or to take part in interviews, please *contact me* at: mishall(a)yorku.ca This study has received ethics clearance from the Office of Research Ethics at York University (Certificate # STU 2021 – 079). This study is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Mishall S. Ahmed Doctoral Candidate (ABD) • Department of Politics • York University SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier – Canada Graduate Scholar (CGS – D) 2020 -2023 York University Provost’s Dissertation Scholarship 2022 -2023 Graduate Associate • Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) mishall(a)yorku.ca _____________________________________________________ Recent publications: Agathangelou, Anna and *Ahmed, Mishall*. *“On the Question of Bodies, Flesh, and Global Racial Capitalism” *in Hosseini, S.A.H., Gills, B.K., Goodman, J., & Motta, S.C. (Eds.). (2020). The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470325

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