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The IRL is hosting an informal reading group this summer on media abundance & scarcity. For more details contact gelmer@ryerson.ca

“I Was Trying to Drag People Into Caring”: Governance, Diversity, and Controversy in Open Technology Projects. In recent years, conflicts over values and practices have emerged in hacking and free/libre and open source (FLOSS) communities, centering around diversity and inclusion. This talk presents ethnographic research on feminist hacking and “diversity” efforts in mainstream hacking, which

Organized by the Algorithmic Media Observatory, Concordia University and co-sponsored by the Infoscape Research Lab and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University. Elinor Carmi is a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist who has been working, writing and teaching on deviant media, internet standards, (cyber)feminism, sound studies and internet governance. Her