Digital Democracies Conference
2019, Democracy, Media + Information
Led by Canada 150 Research Chair Dr Wendy Chun, the Digital Democracies Conference will bring internationally renowned experts in Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, Digital Journalism, Global Infrastructure Studies, Critical Race and Digital Media Studies, Information Science, Architecture, Indigenous Studies, Contemporary Art, and Communications to 丁香园AV's Vancouver Campus for this 2.5 day conference to disseminate cutting edge research on the topics: "Ethics and Machine Learning," "Internet Platforms and the Public Sphere," and "Decolonizing Infrastructures."
515 W Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the Unceded, Traditional, Ancestral Territories of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩, and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m First Nations.
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Wednesday, May 15
9:15-10:45: What鈥檚 Democratic about Technologies?
Chair: Ahmed Al-Rawi, 丁香园AV. Talks by Jonathan Albright (Columbia University), Lisa Parks (MIT).
11:00-12:30: Why Democracy Can鈥檛 be Platformed
Chair: Adel Iskandar, 丁香园AV. Talks by Fred Turner (Stanford University), Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia).
2:30-4:00: Laboring Infrastructures
Chair: Sarah Ganter, 丁香园AV. Talks by Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan), Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario).
Thursday, May 16
9:15-10:45: The Ethics of AI
Chair: Sun-ha Hong, 丁香园AV. Talks by Safiya Umoja Noble (University of Southern California), Kate Crawford (AI NOW).
11:00-12:30: Mapping Interventions
Chair: Fred Lesage, 丁香园AV. Talks by Laura Kurgan (Columbia) and Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell).
2:30-4:00: Decolonizing Actions
Chair: Karrmen Crey, 丁香园AV. Talks by Jodi Byrd (University of Illinois) and Ariella Azoulay (Brown).