Steve Neville on CKNW
IRL researcher Steve Neville spoke with CKNW radio about his research on voice activated technologies. Have a listen here.
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Director contributes to PEN Canada
IRL director Greg Elmer contributes to PEN Canada’s annual news letter “Infodemic“
IRL researchers present at spring conferences
Infoscape researchers present at spring 2022 conferences. Steve Neville presented his research on escape room apps at the Surveillance Studies conference in Rotterdam, while IRL collaborator Fen McKelvey (with G. Elmer & G. Langlois) presented a collaborative ‘post-disinformation studies’ project at the International Communication Association in Paris.
Media Scarcity Reading Group
The IRL is hosting an informal reading group this summer on media abundance & scarcity. For more details contact gelmer@ryerson.ca
Speaker: Christina Dunbar-Hester. March 5th, 2021, 1PM EST.
“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 …
Speaker: Christina Dunbar-Hester. March 5th, 2021, 1PM EST. Read More »