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 h)\n\nYou need to sign up on eventbrite to get the zoom link (we do this t
 o prevent zoombombing).\n\n“Ordering Emotion: Scenes from the History of A
 ffective Computing”\n\nAbstract: In fields ranging from health and wellnes
 s and advertising and marketing to public safety and security\, and politi
 cal campaigning\, data analytics tools united with techniques from the psy
 chological and behavioral sciences are being deployed in real-world applic
 ation defining\, tracking\, measuring\, and modulating our moods\, feeling
 s\, and physical affective responses. Scandals like the 2014 Facebook “emo
 tional contagion” study and the “psychographic profiling” of Trump campaig
 n contractor Cambridge Analytica have brought these technologies into publ
 ic consciousness. Yet despite their increasing centrality to digitally-med
 iated life\, the historical genealogy of these technologies\, and the broa
 der role of psychological models of emotion and personality in computing\,
  remains largely unexplored in the history of computing. In this talk\, I 
 connect the historical treatment of human emotion by computer science to p
 arallel wider debates within psychology\, psychology\, and cognitive scien
 ce from late 1940s up to the present\, examining how the genealogy of cybe
 rnetic technologies for emotion measurement and tracking shaped the slow g
 rowth of affective computing as an organized field in the 2000s and its sp
 eedy growth today.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nDr. Luke Stark is an Assistant
  Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) at Western
  University in London\, Ontario.\n\nHe researches the ethical\, historical
 \, and social impacts of computational technologies like artificial intell
 igence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Stark is particularly animated by h
 ow these technologies mediate social and emotional expression\, and are re
 shaping\, for better and worse\, our relationships to labor\, collective a
 ction\, and each other.\n\nStark's current book project\, Ordering Emotion
 : Histories of Computing and Human Feelings from Cybernetics to AI\, is a 
 history of affective computing and the digital quantification of human emo
 tion\, from 1950s cybernetics to today’s social media platforms.\n\nThis e
 vent is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing a
 nd Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by 
 Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n\nOur series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: 
 SSHRC\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)
 \, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, Dea
 n of Arts Grant\, ReQEF\, and more (see our website!)\n\nThere is no fee r
 equired to attend this event. We will provide professional captions in eng
 lish.\n\nYou can watch other past events here.\n
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SUMMARY:Dr. Luke Stark: Ordering Emotion: Scenes from History of Affective 
 Computing
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