https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-lKKQN_klc&feature=youtu.be Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, speaking at Concordia University Presents: The Walrus Talks Disruption on November 20, 2018 in … [Continue reading]
Daemons are the programs that run the internet. Here’s why it’s important to understand them.
To be able to regulate the internet, we need to understand the programs that manage how it works and what it does. Shutterstock Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University Daemons are real. Or at least computer daemons are. A daemon is … [Continue reading]
Review of Communication: Themed Issue Call for Papers
Optimization: Towards a Critical Concept Guest Editors: Fenwick McKelvey and Joshua Neves Optimization has emerged as a quiet “buzzword.” It is seemingly everywhere and yet elusive. Our bodies, tools, and institutions are now understood as … [Continue reading]
October 9 Event: Alexia Maddox
Bitcoin Blockchains on Twitter Alexia Maddox October 9, 2018 4:30–6pm Cryptocurrencies represent emerging financial technologies engendered through overlapping community values of decentralised peer-to-peer exchange, encryption technologies … [Continue reading]
Faking It: Deepfake Porn and Moral Panic
Essay by Maggie MacDonald 2018 has been the year of deepfakes: algorithmically generated videos that insert faces into existing video footage, fabricating convincing scenes which never took place in reality. They’re named after the Reddit user who … [Continue reading]
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