| Format | Event Recording |
|---|---|
| Topic | Data Visualization, Maps and GIS, Public Scholarship |
Urban Heat Islands and Social Inequities: A Data-Driven Story
In this talk, Nael Shiab and Isabelle Bouchard (CBC Journalists) present their work on urban heat islands, where they used open data and interactive data visualization to highlight social inequalities and the effects of global warming. Their report shows that immigrants and people with low income are most likely to live in the hottest urban areas, making them more vulnerable to heat waves with deadly consequences.
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EQ vs IQ: Testing Gendered AI in Apple’s Siri
Have you ever noticed that AI assistants tend to have female voices? According to Lai-Tze Fan’s research, this is no coincidence. In this lecture, Fan argues that this gendering of AI assistants is a new method in a long history of abstracting women and their bodies into labouring machines. When assessing such AI for human-like performance, designers are not looking for intelligence, but rather, for efficacy to get the job done—content production, menial task completion, and capital transactions—with a smile.
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How to Lie with Data
Data may seem objective or neutral, but that’s not always the case. At this roundtable, learn about how data can be manipulated, skewed, or collected so poorly that any findings are extremely suspect. This session aims to build critical literacy and build attendees’ understanding of data collection, statistics, visualizations including infographics, charts, graphs, and maps, and the Data Justice movement.
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Looking Back to Go Forward: Histories of Oppositional Feminist Politics & the Internet
Recent feminist media studies scholarship has attended to the ways in which feminism’s current popularity is intertwined with the logics of digital media platforms and neoliberal capitalism. But, has it always been? And, does it have to be? This work-in-progress talk by special guest Professor Jessalynn Keller (Communication, Media, and Film, University of Calgary) considers the possibilities for oppositional feminist politics online across both contemporary and historical contexts.
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Glitch: Disability, Feminism, Technology
Starting from the representation of glitching robots on-screen before moving to technologies, bodies, and communities off-screen, this presentation by Dr. Adan Jerreat-Poole (Assistant Professor of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo) explores the history of “glitch feminism” and then turns to glitch as intimacy, interdependence, and Mad/crip/queer community, glitch understood through the physiology of pain in relation to technology, and glitch as a reorientation towards crip time.