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Join the Media History Cluster for the first talk of a series of public talks and discussion on recent media history. On September 26, Fenwick McKelvey will discuss his forthcoming book “Voter_Machine_World” (under contract with MIT Press).
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Voter_Machine_World explores America’s long history to solve political problems with computers. Focusing on the early intersection of domestic and world politics, the book offers a genealogy of political machines, ways to imagine technologies to model, simulate and effect political systems as if they were computer systems. The rich history draws from archival research and interviews to follow efforts to build voter and world machines for the early 1960s to the early 1990s – a period that helps us ask the critical questions to understand the new political machines being built today with AI and big data. In this informal presentation, McKelvey will introduce the project in its final stages.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Fenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is co-director of the Applied AI Institute and leads Machine Agencies at the Milieux Institute. He studies digital politics and policy. He is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (Peter Lang, 2012) with Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois.
📅 September 25, 2024
📍EV 2.776
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