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Information Future(s) Through the Past (Nov 20, 2020)

Pictured: Dr. Xiao Liu (McGill University)

Information Future(s) Through the Past (Nov 20, 2020)

Pictured: Dr. Yang Guobin (UPenn)

Meet the Author: Dr André Brock (Dec 14, 2020)

Students from three of our 2020-21 graduate reading groups organized a meet the author event to ask questions and discuss Dr. Brock's book, "Distributed Blackness."

Meet the Author: Dr. K'eguro Macharia (Feb 10, 2021)

A meet the author event organized by students from the "Global South Feminist School of Media and Archives" graduate reading group.

Q+A with Yifan Li (Feb 19, 2021)

Our Contemporary China Through Media Studies working group joined forces with Toronto's Reel Asian Film Festival to host a screening and Q+A of Yifan Li's documentary film, "We Were Smart".

McLuhan Manuscript Workshop (Feb 26, 2021)

Manuscript workshops are open to UofT researchers with book manuscripts in progress. The half-day workshops provide an opportunity for scholars to discuss their work and obtain feedback on their drafts.
Pictured: Manuscript workshop for Dr. Alessandro Delfanti's (top left) book in progress on Amazon's warehouse workers.

Information Future(s) Through the Past (Nov 20, 2020)

Pictured: Dr. Xiao Liu (McGill University)

Information Future(s) Through the Past (Nov 20, 2020)

Pictured: Dr. Yang Guobin (UPenn)

Meet the Author: Dr André Brock (Dec 14, 2020)

Students from three of our 2020-21 graduate reading groups organized a meet the author event to ask questions and discuss Dr. Brock's book, "Distributed Blackness."

Meet the Author: Dr. K'eguro Macharia (Feb 10, 2021)

A meet the author event organized by students from the "Global South Feminist School of Media and Archives" graduate reading group.

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Alternatives and Demands in Network Ruins

Culture/Work/Resistance

May 30, 2017

A book launch and author discussion for three new titles on
Culture/Work/Resistance in a Digital Age.

Mark Banks Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Rowman and Littlefield).

Launched by Sarah Sharma.

Enda Brophy Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce (Palgrave MacMillan). Launched by Ursula Huws.

Nicole Cohen Writer's Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen's University Press).

Launched by Tanner Mirrlees.

Care, Automated

October 21, 2017

A workshop with Amelia Abreu, Marc Böhlen, Hermenio Lima, Ian Roderick, Sarah Sharma,

David Harris Smith + Frauke Zeller. Hosted by Letters & Handshakes.

Presented in partnership with Blackwood Gallery as part of their year long series:

Take, Care.

The habit of attaching “care” to innately positive attributes obscures its entanglement with dominant systems of power and control. The ambivalence of care is crisply reflected in technological configurations of care/work. In this workshop, seven researchers share their inquiries into intersections of care and technology, in particular, automation. Questioning technological fixes to care crisis, Care, Automated examines how care work’s ongoing machinization coexists with and deepens, rather than disrupts, entrenched social hierarchies and prevailing economic imperatives. Beyond providing critical diagnostics, however, the workshop also sets out to consider how technologies of care/work might be ethically and collaboratively reimagined.