Event Recap: Discriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun

By Arya Dixit, Research Assistant + Systems Design Engineering Student, Critical Media Lab As an engineering student, I am continuously immersed in the world of technology, learning about its capabilities and ways to manipulate it to solve problems. However, after watching Wendy Chun’s Critical Tech Talk, I found myself questioning the limitations of this approach.…

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Leveraging data equity and putting “Tech for Good” into practice By Alexi Orchard, CML PhD Candidate and Lab Manager In recent years, most people in a computing or technology-related profession have likely been exposed to “tech for good,” “responsible innovation,” “computing for social good,” or one of the many other buzzwords and phrases that advocate…

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BY REBECCA SHERLOCK, PhD STUDENT, CRITICAL MEDIA LAB This semester’s talk was nothing short of honest dialogues, as we explored the topic of reproductive technologies, artificial wombs, and the disobedient future of birth with Dr. Claire Horn, a Killam postdoctoral research fellow at Dalhousie University’s Health Law Institute (keep an eye out for her book…

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Multiple RA Positions for Fall 2022 with Critical by Design research team The Critical By Design interdisciplinary research group is hiring Research Assistants at the Master’s and PhD levels to join our 5-year project on responsible innovation and Critical Design. **Update 08/22/22: We are also encouraging upper year undergraduate students and international students to apply!…

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