Book Talk: Digital Queers and High Tech Gays
In her forthcoming book, Digital Queers and High Tech Gays, Dr. Alex D. Ketchum explores how queer communities have long shaped internet culture by organizing, sharing knowledge, and preserving their own histories.
Recap // A Maroon’s Technical Practice with Maurice Jones
On September 23, the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) welcomed Maurice Jones, PhD Candidate at Concordia University, for a research talk exploring new approaches to artificial intelligence grounded in Black studies and feminist technoscience.
Recap // Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts
Watch recaps now! The two-day workshop explored how workers and their organizations are shaping the governance of digital technologies — including platforms, data, and AI — through collective bargaining, co-operative formation, and policy reform.
Growing Network of KMDI
New changes are coming to KMDI. Affiliated faculty, new associate directors and more.
Recap // Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI
Watch now! Feeding the Machine tells the story of a global technology through the eyes of the people who produce it. The talk described the lives of the workers deliberately concealed from view, and the power structures that determine their future.
A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Computational Research-Creation and Black Machine Agencies
Maurice Jones will share insights from his participatory action research project ArtIA: Towards a Commons for AI in Digital Creation.
Workers Governing Digital Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts
This two-day in-person event will bring together 20 invited speakers from Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and the United States to exchange insights on worker-led governance of digital technologies
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI
KMDI is launching its public lecture series with a talk by Feeding the Machine authors Mark Graham (University of Oxford) and James Muldoon (University of Essex)