digital methods for internet policy and politics
INRS’ Nenic Lab in collaboration with Concordia’s Algorithmic Media Observatory seek a post-doctoral associate for a position of 2 years (potentially extendable to 3 years pending funding) to work with respective directors, Professors J. Roberge and … [Continue reading]
By Scott DeJong In this post, we reflect on the challenges, struggles and questions that we encountered during our ethnographic meme collection. Since our project experiments with methods to study memes and meme pages, we felt it was … [Continue reading]
By Scott DeJong COVID-19 information is often described as an “infodemic” -- a tidal wave of news good and bad. Political cartoonist Graeme Mackay played with this metaphor in his political cartoon from 11 March 2020 (Figure 1)*. The cartoon … [Continue reading]
Speaker: Dr. Sun-ha Hong Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 12:00 PM EDT Dr. Sun-ha Hong presents their new book, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society. This event is part of the Fall Lunch Seminar Series on AI … [Continue reading]
Speaker: Dr. Christian Katzenbach A leading global scholar on platform and AI governance, Dr. Katzenbach introduces a framework for the contested, informal governances of AI. This event is part of the Fall Lunch Seminar Series on AI Governance … [Continue reading]
