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DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event with in-person and zoom webinar options:\n\nPlease
  sign up via Eventbrite.\n\nDr. Tamara Kneese will talk about her new book
  Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond \, 
 followed by audience Q and A.\n\nSince the internet’s earliest days\, peop
 le have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of th
 e web\, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead a
 re often ill-fated\, for websites and devices decay and die\, just as peop
 le do. Death disrupts technologists’ plans for platforms. It reveals how d
 igital production is always collaborative\, undermining the entrepreneuria
 l platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism. Big T
 ech has authority not only over people’s lives but over their experiences 
 of death as well. Ordinary users and workers\, though\, advocate for chang
 es to tech companies’ policies around death. Drawing on internet histories
  along with interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups\, caret
 akers of illness blogs\, and transhumanist tinkerers\, the technology scho
 lar Tamara Kneese will take attendees on a vibrant tour of the ways that p
 latforms and people work together to care for digital remains. What happen
 s when commercial platforms encounter the messiness of mortality?\n\nBio: 
 Tamara Kneese is Senior Researcher and Project Director at Data & Society 
 Research Institute’s AIMLab (Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab). Before joini
 ng D&S\, she was Lead Researcher at the Green Software Foundation\, Direct
 or of Developer Engagement on the Green Software team at Intel\, and Assis
 tant Professor of Media Studies and Director of Gender and Sexualities stu
 dies at the University of San Francisco.\n\nTamara’s research juxtaposes h
 istories of computing and automation with ethnographies of platform labor.
  Her work has been published in academic journals including Social Text an
 d Social Media + Society and in popular outlets including LARB\, The Verge
 \, The Atlantic\, and Logic Magazine. In her spare time\, Tamara is a volu
 nteer with the Tech Workers Coalition. She holds a Ph.D. from NYU’s Depart
 ment of Media\, Culture\, and Communication.\n\nThis event is part of the 
 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Te
 chnologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n
 \nThank you to MILA for co-sponsoring this event!\n\nOur series was made p
 ossible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuali
 ty\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiative for
  Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, Dean of Arts Grant\, ReQEF\, and more (see ou
 r website!)\n\nThere is no fee required to attend this event. We will prov
 ide professional captions in english.\n\nYou can watch other past events h
 ere.\n
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LOCATION:Peel 3487\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W7\, 3487 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Dr. Tamara Kneese on Death Glitch (hybrid event)
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