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Design Dialogues: Geoffrey Bowker

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Geof Bowker (Professor, School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC-Irvine) Tuesday, September 20, 2016 — 4:00-5:30PM, NCSA Auditorium

For all its hype, the phenomenon of big data and its attendant analytics is nevertheless changing what it means to be human. This talk explores the ontological dimensions of this change with a view to teasing out the impacts of its long term historical trajectory and the ethical design issues which arise.

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Director of the Values in Design Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. From 1993-1998, he was faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Information Sciences, and was a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications from 1998-1999. He currently co-directs the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society with researchers from across academia and the IT industry. He has published widely on the topics of information infrastructure, classification systems in distributed scientific collaborations, and the use of web and digital resources across disciplines.

Co-Sponsored by:
The Recovering Prairie Futures IPRH Research Cluster
The Provost’s Office
The College of Engineering
The School of Information Sciences
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

with the:
College of Education
College of Fine and Applied Arts
School of Social Work
Center for Advanced Study
Center for Digital Inclusion
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for People and Infrastructures
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Disability Resources and Educational Services
Human and Dynamics Laboratory
Illinois Informatics Institute
Institute of Communications Research
Product Design Laboratory, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering Department
Social Innovation at Illinois
Spurlock Museum
Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative, College of Business
Anthropology
Asian American Studies
History
Latino/a Studies
Media and Cinema Studies
Allen Hall/Unit One LLC
Innovation LLC
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Access
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Office of Undergraduate Research
Makerspace Urbana

 

Design Dialogues: Geof Bowker

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The Data Citizen: New Ways of Being in the World  

Geof Bowker (Professor, School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC-Irvine)   

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 — 4:00-5:30PM, NCSA Auditorium

For all its hype, the phenomenon of big data and its attendant analytics is nevertheless changing what it means to be human. This talk explores the ontological dimensions of this change with a view to teasing out the impacts of its long term historical trajectory and the ethical design issues which arise.

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Director of the Values in Design Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. From 1993-1998, he was faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Information Sciences, and was a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications from 1998-1999. He currently co-directs the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society with researchers from across academia and the IT industry. He has published widely on the topics of information infrastructure, classification systems in distributed scientific collaborations, and the use of web and digital resources across disciplines.

Sponsored by

The Recovering Prairie Futures IPRH Research Cluster
The Provost’s Office
The College of Engineering
The School of Information Sciences
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

with the:
College of Education
College of Fine and Applied Arts
School of Social Work Center for Advanced Study
Center for Digital Inclusion
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for People and Infrastructures
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Disability Resources and Educational Services
Human and Dynamics Laboratory
Illinois Informatics Institute
Institute of Communications Research
Product Design Laboratory, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering Department
Social Innovation at Illinois
Spurlock Museum
Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative, College of Business
Anthropology
Asian American Studies
History
Latino/a Studies
Media and Cinema Studies
Allen Hall/Unit One LLC
Innovation LLC
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Access
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Office of Undergraduate Research
Makerspace Urbana

 

Design Dialogues: Speakers Series

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Anne Balsamo, Dean of the School of Media Studies
at The New School in New York City

“Designing Culture: Creating Multidisciplinary Collaboration.”
Friday, April 22 – 11A-12P, NCSA Auditorium

Abstract: How does inter-disciplinarity impact innovation? Anne Balsamo shares an approach to the study and practice of technology-based innovation, to demonstrate how the real business of innovation is the reproduction of culture over time and over place. She discusses the role of the humanities and sciences in cross-disciplinary collaborations that focus on the creation of new technologies. And she explores how – given that the humanities seriously considers questions of ethics, cultural and social good, and intentional future-making – there is an important role for humanists in the process of creating new technologies. The presentation will be framed by work from her recent book, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work, and will offer a specific example of ways in which questions of culture informed the development of new technologies.

Bio: Anne Balsamo serves as the Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. Her most recent book,Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke, 2011) examines the relationship between culture and technological innovation, with a particular focus on the role of the humanities in cultural innovation. In 2012, she and Alexandra Juhasz co-founded FemTechNet. Balsamoserved as one of the key designers of the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) offered by FemTechNet in 2013. Previously she was a Full Professor at the University of Southern California where she held joint appointments in the Annenberg School of Communication and the Interactive Media Division of the School of Cinematic Arts. From 2004-2007, she served as the Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC where she created one of the first academic programs in multimedia literacy across the curriculum. In 1998, she left a tenured faculty position at Georgia Institute of Technology to join a research-design group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies.

* Breakfast reception before the talk

Confirmed Co-sponsors: College of Engineering, the IPRH, the NCSA, the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, the Center for Digital Inclusion, Libraries, GSLIS, the Illinois Informatics Institute, Business Administration, Media & Cinema Studies, History, and Latina/o Studies, Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian and Middle East Studies, Gender and Women Studies, Latina/Latino Studies