• C2i2 Spring Symposium

Over the past two decades, the Internet has transformed from a tool used by motivated hobbyists, researchers and scientists into a vital source of information, entertainment, work activity, social and political engagement for the general public. Increasingly, a loose archipelago of privatized content islands compete for the public’s attention and trust, spreading material at a scale and speed heretofore unimaginable. Even as lawmakers, civil society advocates and activists take aim at the human rights implications of unchecked power and the outsized impact of a handful of companies, we continue to see increased threats to labor rights and autonomy across multiple sectors, rampant racist, misogynistic, transphobic and homophobic hate speech, and the entrenchment of global power imbalances. This symposium brings together exciting and challenging work from an interdisciplinary community of scholars poised to move the conversation forward.

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Program

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  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

    Registration & Coffee

  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

    Opening Remarks

    Dr. Abel Valenzuela Interim Dean, Social Sciences Division; Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies

    Dr. Sarah Roberts Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Information Studies, and Labor Studies; Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry

  • 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM

    Opening Keynote

    Dr. Kate Starbird Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering; Director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory; Co-Founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public

  • 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

    Coffee break

  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

    Glitches, Glitters, Bots, and Boxes: Spectacles and Specters in Platformized Production of Bodies and Commodities on the Internet

    Panelists

    • Dr. Tonia Sutherland Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA; Co-Director of the Community Archives Lab
    • Zizi Lee PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA; Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Streisand Fellow
    • Dr. Wendy Sung Assistant Professor of race, visuality, and digital culture in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

    Boxed Lunch

  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

    Computing, Clouds and Commons: Imagining and Building Participatory Internet Infrastructures

    Panelists

    • Maga Miranda PhD Candidate in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA; Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Streisand Fellow and Incoming Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Pomona College
    • Dr. Veronica Uribe de Aguilar PhD Candidate in Communication and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego
    • Dr. Noopur Raval Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA
    • Nashra Mahmood PhD Candidate in Gender Studies at UCLA; Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Streisand Fellow

  • 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

    Coffee break

  • 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM

    Closing Keynote

    Dr. Rumman Chowdhury Parity Consulting; Responsible AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; Research Affiliate at the Minderoo Center for Democracy and Technology at Cambridge University; Visiting Researcher at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering

  • 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM

    Closing Remarks

    Dr. Sarah Roberts Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Information Studies, and Labor Studies; Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry