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[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit, power, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)

Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705

Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book, The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics.   ABOUT THE TALK: AI is often presented in extremes, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs, democracy, or even human […]

Stephen Monteiro: How Tech Got Needy: Episodes in Device Intimacy

Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705

Networked personal media devices construct an animated intimacy, fostering user trust and emotional dependence. Viewing this development through a historical eye, this talk explores examples of object-oriented digital intimacy that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing from Needy Media (recently published by McGill-Queens University Press), it will consider how user-device closeness was […]

Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw

Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705

Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland, the latest publication by Will Straw. In its time (the 1920s and 1930s), the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison […]