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Group Photo during todays meeting
by hazemibr 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Dear Everyone, We were hoping to take a group photo of our research group today before our meeting starts. John will be taking the photo, so try to arrive at the DGP seminar room on time today at 5:30 pm (since he has to leave right after). Best Regards, Hazem Ibrahim

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Paper Swap @ Third Space Meeting
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Hi all, Reminding you again, we will have a paper swap session in our group meeting today. The structure we could follow is: you will print some copies of your draft and bring them in the meeting. Whoever is interested will take your paper and give feedback on that. Feel free to mention somewhere on your paper about what kind of feedback would you appreciate more (such as, paper framing, idea, lit review, etc.). You will also take others' paper and give feedback on that. Please feel free to add any other suggestion to make this session effective. Personally, I am uncomfortable to share my very early draft with you. But I have seen this early swapping very effective. Then again, this is just us, and we all know each other. Be uncomfortable, but please bring your draft, even if that is a skeleton; that would help you. :) Best, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Fwd: FW: DCI talk Sep 12 - Prof. David Wachsmuth "Data and the lack of data in the politics of the platform economy"
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

This looks like a very interesting talk, and I am sure many of you may want to attend this. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Christoph Becker <christoph.becker(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 3:50 PM Subject: FW: DCI talk Sep 12 - Prof. David Wachsmuth "Data and the lack of data in the politics of the platform economy" To: Steve Easterbrook <sme(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Ishtiaque Ahmed < ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Hello Steve, hello Ishtiaque, I think this talk is of a lot of interest to you and other folks – would you spread the word and consider coming? And do you have any contact at the School of Cities that I could share this with? Christoph *From:* Christoph Becker *Sent:* September 4, 2019 3:48 PM *To:* 'ISCHOOL-FAC-REG-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca' < ISCHOOL-FAC-REG-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca>; phd-ischool-l(a)listserv.utoronto.ca *Subject:* DCI talk Sep 12 - Prof. David Wachsmuth "Data and the lack of data in the politics of the platform economy" Dear colleagues and students, I hope you are all having a good start into the term. At the DCI, we are hosting an exciting talk next week that I want to make sure you are aware of. Many of you will have been following the discussions around short-term rental’s impact on housing across the world and in Canada. One person who you’ll have seen cited frequently in this context is McGill’s David Wachsmuth, who has done some of the most innovative and impactful work on the impact of Airbnb. David is Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance and author of several in-depth studies on the impact of Airbnb on cities including New York, Montreal, and Toronto. He was just featured in the Star’s article on Airbnb about the province’s Local Planning Appeal Tribunal ( https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/08/30/new-rules-would-put-a-third-of-… ) I have followed his work for a while both because of airbnb’s structural impact on our life and because of the innovative methods he has used to reveal it. I asked him to talk about these methods, but I’m sure the conversation will get broader than that. As Costis would say, this is also a case of ‘curation in the wild’, the theme of this year’s DCI series. We will combine a talk with a more conversational part. Please join in: Thursday Sep 12, 4pm in BL 528. Event webpage: https://wp.me/p6lxwc-Gz *Data and the lack of data in the politics of the platform economy* *David Wachsmuth, McGill University* How does data structure the political economy of Airbnb, Uber, and other leading “platform economy” firms? In this presentation, I answer this question through a spatial-big-data examination of short-term rentals, relying on a complete dataset of all worldwide short-term rental activity on Airbnb and HomeAway since 2015. Platforms rely, of course, on having data, but equally crucially rely on others not having data. I discuss this two-sided nature of data availability, first of all by arguing that data should be understood as a key source of platform rents, and second by arguing that data is the key to effective platform regulation. I then provide two case studies from my ongoing research on short-term rentals to illustrate the tensions of data availability. The first is an investigation using spatial analysis of “ghost hostels” on Airbnb: apartments which have been entirely converted into clusters of private-room rentals but masquerade as a series of spare bedrooms. The second is a reconsideration of the efficacy of existing short-term rental regulations. I conclude by arguing that an increasingly central asset of platforms is control over who gets to know what they are doing, and thus that data is not just the currency of platform urbanism, but rather a medium of struggle. *Prof. David Wachsmuth* is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance at McGill University, where he is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Urban Planning and an Associate Member in the Department of Geography. He directs UPGo <http://upgo.lab.mcgill.ca/>, the Urban Politics and Governance research group at McGill, where he leads a team of researchers investigating pressing urban governance problems related to economic development, environmental sustainability, and housing markets. He is the co-lead of the Adapting Urban Environments for the Future theme of the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative, where he is part of a broad interdisciplinary team developing new ways of conceptualizing, measuring, and improving urban sustainability. A major focus of his work has been explaining a transition in policy and planning from identifying the city as a global sustainability problem to identifying the city as a solution to global sustainability problems. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the impacts of short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb on cities around the world, and consults widely with municipalities and community organizations on designing appropriate regulations. Dr. Wachsmuth has published widely in top journals in urban studies, planning and geography, and his work has been covered extensively in the national and international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and the Washington Post. He is the Early Career Editor of the journal Territory, Politics, Governance and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Urban Geography and Urban Planning. Best, Christoph Prof Christoph Becker Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto - on research leave, July 2019 - June 2020 - https://twitter.com/ChriBecker

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Relocation Symposium
by tushar21 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Hi Everyone, I saw this and thought it might be interesting to some of us. https://humanities.utoronto.ca/events/call-papers-relocations-symposium

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Thirdspace Group Email and Meeting Minutes
by hazemibr 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Dear Everyone, I hope you are excited for a productive semester ahead. In case you had forgotten, we have a Thirdspace gmail account, where we store valuable information on the associated Google Drive such as presentations and guidelines for ethics proposals. Email: thirdspace.uoft(a)gmail.com Password: thirdspace12345 This semester, I will be recording minutes of our meetings in a Doc which can be found on the group Google drive to help us keep track of who is presenting and what has been said during the meetings. The doc can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WhAS303ulw03S6dxhQH4u9ujh4n_CHaX1BGyQp2… Best Regards, Hazem Ibrahim

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Online exhibition of migrant womens struggle in STEM fields
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

This is a fascinating work from Nadia Caidi's group! Check this out - https://www.techgirls.ca/five-journeys <https://www.techgirls.ca/five-journeys> Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science 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…>

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Conference: September 20–22, 2019, Toronto
by Cansu Ekmekcioglu Dedeoglu 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Hi all, This might be of interest: https://ournetworks.ca RE: Infrastructures explores the collective care and maintenance of alternative networking practices—new protocols, peer-to-peer connections, offline-first computing, and community-based governance. Best, Cansu Cansu E. Dedeoglu Ph.D. Student Faculty of Information, iSchool University of Toronto cansu.dedeoglu(a)mail.utoronto.ca

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efficient ways to take attendance
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Folks - This semester I am teaching CSCS 300 with 160 students and I am planning to take their attendance. What is an easy way to do that? I do not want them or us to spend much time on this. Ideas? Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science 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…>

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paper writing tips
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

I just read this blog and I thought some of it would be useful for many of us. https://medium.com/@deviparikh/planning-paper-writing-553f497e8839 Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science 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…>

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[location and time changed] HCI meeting Tue Aug 27th
by Jiannan Li 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at *11 am* on Tuesday Aug 27th, in *BA 5256*. Karthik Mahadevan, an incoming PhD student who will join the lab this September, will give a talk on interaction with autonomous vehicles. Please see more details below. Title: Exploring the Design of Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction Abstract: In today's interaction with vehicles at crosswalks, pedestrians rely on cues originating from the vehicle and the driver. Vehicle cues relate to its kinematics such as speed and stopping distance while driver cues are concerned with cues such as eye gaze and contact, head movement, and hand gestures. In autonomous vehicles, however, a driver is not expected to be on-board to provide cues to pedestrians. We attempted to tackle the problem of designing novel ways to facilitate autonomous vehicle-pedestrian interaction at crosswalks. We propose interfaces which communicate an autonomous vehicle's awareness and intent as a means of helping pedestrians make safe crossing decisions. Bio: Karthik Mahadevan is an MSc candidate at the University of Calgary’s Department of Computer Science, where he is currently wrapping up his research on autonomous vehicle-pedestrian interaction. Karthik is an incoming DGP PhD student this Fall and will be supervised by Dr. Tovi Grossman. His research interests are primarily in human-robot interaction and human-computer interaction. Food will be served. Look forward to seeing you there. Thanks, Jiannan

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