Events

In this talk Palashi will discuss how caste and its complexities offer important insights for the critical and humanistic study of computing. Event Details

Join the iSchool Undergraduate Student Services to learn more about the new Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts major in Informatics. Event Details

In this talk, Dr. Walsh will share research that demonstrates how we can address technical, ethical, and disciplinary challenges by using computational methods and internet data to gain meaningful insights about cultural production while also respecting and protecting the amateur critics, artists, and everyday internet users who create most of this data. Event Details

In this talk, Brewster will demonstrate how the materiality and maintenance of born-digital records affects and informs a cultural understanding of computer-mediated community memory practices. Event Details

Working from theory of infrastructure and articulation work, this talk sheds light on key debates about independent work from the vantage point of two cases – tuk tuk drivers in Cambodia and creative sector workers in the United States. Event Details

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In this talk, Williams will present the outcomes and preliminary findings from three studies that sought to understand returning citizens’ engagement with digital technology, specific challenges that they face during job search, and potential interventions that could alleviate those challenges. Event Details

In this talk, Payne will discuss working with The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Community School for BVI musicians (aka the Fil'). Together they built SoundCells, an accessible web application used to compose braille and large print music, and formed FiLOrk (Fil' Laptop Orchestra), a collaborative music coding ensemble made up of five BVI high school students. Event Details

By discussing the history of library services to the Black community in Huntsville, Alabama as a case study, this talk explains how racism and urban renewal perpetuated epistemic injustice by destroying cultural heritage and narratives from marginalized communities. Event Details

This talk offers an overview of the social and ethical implications of algorithmic and automated treatments as they move from care to capture to control across the second half of the 20th century into our present. Event Details