3/9 Update: Due to the COVID-19 virus this conference in canceled.
Join us to hear from researchers studying Big Data about how they respond to the question of how algorithmic systems support emergent understandings of “the human,” “the social,” and conceptions of “the ethical.” Our workshop will engage pressing questions of data ethics by critically assessing large-scale information systems and forms of algorithmic reasoning.
This conference explores large-scale data analytics with respect to the ways in which they support specific ways of being in the world, forms of perception and intervention, and forms of knowing, while preventing other modes of life from flourishing. How does openness for new ethical projects persist in algorithmic systems? How might predictive analytics foreclose the possibility of alternative futures? What, in other words, are the ethics and politics of openness and closure in contemporary algorithmically-mediated conditions? In light of the current proliferation of dystopian visions of algorithmic futures with ubiquitous digital surveillance and control, what alternative futures could be brought about in and through computational infrastructures to be designed and implemented otherwise?
Friday, March 20th | 10am-4:55pm | Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
Saturday, March 21st| 9am-2pm | Rotunda Dome Room
Schedule:
Friday March 20, 2020 – Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
10:00am-10:15am: Coffee/Bagels
10:15am-10:20am: Welcome
10:25am-11:00am: Gaymon Bennett
11:05am-11:40am: Luis Felipe R. Murillo
11:45am-12:20pm: Erin McElroy
12:20pm- 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm-2:35pm: Shreeharsh Kelkar
2:35pm-3:00pm: Coffee Break
3:00pm-3:35pm: Samuel Lengen
3:40pm-4:00pm Discussion
Saturday March 21, 2020 - Rotunda Dome Room
9:30am-10:00am: Coffee/Bagels
10:00am-10:35am: Emanuel Moss
10:40am-11:15am: Caitlin Wylie
11:15am-11:40am: Coffee Break
11:40am-12:15pm: Jarrett Zigon
12:20pm-1:00pm: Final Discussion