Online seminar by Dr Diane Smith: Indigenous Self-Determination and Self-Governance in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Seminar
Indigenous Self-Determination and Self-Governance in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dr Diane Smith (CAEPR, ANU) This seminar will be delivered online In this Topical Discussion, Dr Diane Smith from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University will open…
Christine Hine (cancelled) - Self-calibration in a digital society (online delivery)
Seminar
Please note this seminar was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. A workshop in collaboration with the School of Sociology and the School of Politics and International Relations, and the Interpretation, Method, Critique Research Cluster, ANU In this paper I will be focusing on how people…
Humanizing HIV Surveillance? Assoc Prof Martin French
Workshop
Dr. Martin French, Sociology & Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. This workshop presents preliminary portions of an in-progress book manuscript on HIV surveillance. Written primarily for an audience of advocates and activists engaged in the global movement to end HIV…
Types and Forms of Automation on Twitter - PD Dr Florian Muhle
Seminar
While previous approaches to the detection of social bots work with automated methods and only make binary differentiations between bots and humans, this paper presents a qualitative approach to the classification of automated accounts in social media. Based on a case study on the identification of…
Judy Wajcman - Silicon Valley’s Quest for Temporal Optimization
Lecture
There is a widespread assumption that digital technologies are radically altering our perception of time: that we live too fast, that time is scarce and that the pace of everyday life is accelerating beyond our control. The iconic image that abounds is that of the frenetic, technologically…
Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment: A Critical Feminist Arts/ Research Workshop Series
Workshop
In this workshop, we explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically photography, sociological fiction and zine making. These arts practices are valuable for opening up how we critically explore, analyse, collaborate on, and share experiences and…
Understanding the online "Manosphere" -- Simon Copland
Seminar
In April 2018 Alek Minassian sped a van through Toronto, Canada, killing ten and injuring sixteen others. Minassian belonged to an online community called ‘incels’ (involuntary celibates), comprised of men who blame women for their inability to gain sexual relationships. Incels speak disparagingly…