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DESCRIPTION:David Myles\n\nExploring the social implications of digital med
 ia algorithms for Canada’s LGBTQ+ communities\n\nAbstract: Digital media a
 lgorithms now oversee nearly all of our online activities. They select and
  order the results of online searches\, they filter\, recommend\, or censo
 r certain contents\, they monitor user activities to predict their prefere
 nces\, and they score\, evaluate\, and moderate user content (or even user
 s themselves). Recent studies have shown how algorithms often reproduce th
 e biases of the people who develop\, implement\, or use them in ways that 
 disproportionally affect women and people of color. This presentation exte
 nds these reflections to explore the implications that algorithms raise fo
 r Canada’s LGBTQ+ communities\, especially in terms of social justice and 
 equality. By doing so\, it seeks to further demonstrate how digital media 
 technologies are never neutral but encoded with values that enact importan
 t power dynamics disproportionally affecting marginalized populations.\n\n
 Biography: David Myles is an Affiliate Professor in Sexology at the Univer
 sity of Quebec in Montreal and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institut
 e for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies\, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. His i
 nterests include the sociopolitical implications of digital media technolo
 gies\, death and mourning\, gender and sexual diversity\, as well as Inter
 net research ethics and methods. His latest research focuses on automation
  and datafication processes and their consequences for the LGBTQ+ communit
 ies.\n\n- - -\n\nEmily Colpitts\n	\n	Addressing sexual violence at Canadian 
 universities amidst rising anti-feminist and alt-right backlash\n\nAbstrac
 t: In this presentation\, I will discuss the dynamic relationship between 
 rising anti-feminist and alt-right backlash and efforts to address sexual 
 violence and advance social justice on campus. I argue that backlash is fu
 elled by the perceived success of this activism and how it\, in turn\, sha
 pes what can be said and done about violence. I situate this relationship 
 within the broader struggle among competing social movements over the powe
 r to define what constitutes violence\, justice\, and free speech and expl
 ore how the university has become an important site of this struggle.\n\nB
 iography: Emily M. Colpitts is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in 
 the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. Prior to joining 
 McGill\, Emily held a York Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Femin
 ist Research at York University\, where she also completed her PhD in Gend
 er\, Feminist\, and Women's Studies.\n\n- - -\n\nJordan Kinder \n\nPetrotu
 rfing: Refining Canadian Oil in the Age of Social Media\n\nAbstract: This 
 talk introduces Jordan's current book project\, Petroturfing: Refining Can
 adian Oil in the Age of Social Media. Petroturfing is an investigation int
 o how the Canadian pro-oil movement seeks to undermine resistance to the f
 ossil fuel industry by leveraging perceptions of social media as a partici
 patory and democratic space to frame Canadian oil as an economically\, soc
 ially\, and ecologically progressive force. Performing a qualitative\, cri
 tical analysis of media produced by the groups and organizations central t
 o the movement's formation\, Petroturfing draws upon a range of perspectiv
 es from disciplines including political economy\, political ecology\, medi
 a studies\, feminist theory\, critical Indigenous studies\, and science an
 d technology studies\, to make distinct contributions to critical studies 
 of social media on the one hand and the energy and environmental humanitie
 s on the other. The talk begins by charting the emergence of the pro-oil m
 ovement through social media\, and it concludes by detailing the project's
  major contributions with a focus on the critical vocabulary the project g
 enerates to confront the encounter between platform and oil capitalism tha
 t the movement signals.\n\nBio: Jordan Kinder is a media studies and envir
 onmental humanities scholar from what is now called northern British Colum
 bia. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta\, and is currently a S
 SHRC-FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow. His PhD was completed in the Department of
  English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta in 2019\, and his m
 ost recent work can be found in South Atlantic Quarterly and the Journal o
 f Environmental Media.\n
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Myles\, Emily Colpitts\, Jordan Kinder
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