Professors Tracey Lauriault (Co-investigator) and Merlyna Lim (Primary Investigator) are awarded a 2017 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Individual Connection Grant to support the forthcoming Data Power 2017 Conference to be held at Carleton June 22-23 and the Open Data & Private Sector Workshop June 21.
The grant will support a number of activities, including travel and accommodation for the following keynote speakers:
- Helen Nissenbaum, New York University, co-author of Obfuscation: A User’s Guide to Privacy and Protest with Finn Brunton (2015), and PI of the Values in Design project;
- Paul N.Edwards, University of Michigan, author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming(2010);
- Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, author ofSocial Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (2016), and PI of the DATACTIVE project;
- Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland, author ofThe Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (2015).
The award includes the following collaborators and Data Power 2017 Organizing Committee Members:
- Jo Bates University of Sheffield
- David A. Fewer University of Ottawa
- Jean-Noé Landry Open North
- Ganaele Langlois York University
- Ysabel Gerrard University of Leeds
- Professor Helen Kennedy University of Sheffield
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 in Communication News, News
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