[acc-cca-l] CMF Race in Media Lecture: Dr. Safiya Noble (via Zoom) Feb 7, 2022

Charles Tepperman cetepper at ucalgary.ca
Fri Jan 14 12:57:01 MST 2022


All are welcome to attend!

CMF Race in Media Lecture: “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Dr. Safiya Noble (University of California, Los Angeles)
Monday, February 7, 3:00-4:00pm (MT)
To register for the Zoom webinar, visit: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NKTf9i4TTtuX5xOiD0F1fQ
For more information visit: https://arts.ucalgary.ca/communication-media-film/events#!view/event/event_id/398284

The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics, and in the service of something – a position, a profit motive, a means to an end. In this talk, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her book, Algorithms of Oppression, the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search and the power struggles over representation on the web, as well as the implications for public information needs.

Dr. Safiya Noble is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow and author of the highly acclaimed Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). She is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She and her work have been featured in TIME, The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, Wired, The New York Times, among many others. Her talks and research focus on the ways that digital media impacts our lives and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology.


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Charles Tepperman, PhD
Associate Professor & Department Head
Department of Communication, Media and Film | University of Calgary
Director, Amateur Movie Database project: http://www.amateurcinema.org

The University of Calgary is located on traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations).  The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.  The traditional Blackfoot name of the place we now call Calgary is “Moh’kins’tsis” .

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