Critical Digital Studies Reading Group
Join the IAS Critical Digital Studies Reading group for their bi-weekly 'Critical Digital Studies' reading group on Wednesdays from 18:00 - 19:00. All members of UCL and the wider community are welcome, from staff to undergraduates. You do not have to read all the materials for each session but try to do at least one of the readings. Please note, these sessions will be held virtually. This event is supported by UCL IIPP, UCL IAS and Data for Policy.
Critical Digital Studies Reading Group
11 Nov 2021 - 20 Jul 2022
Digitalisation impacts all features of society, inviting the need for critical public conversations on what different directions digitalisation can take, what institutions shape those directions and who has the agency to determine shaping. This reading group seeks to bring in academic and practitioner reading to organise public discussions on how to shape the directionality of digitalisation. Every month, members will be given a topic or problem area along with a dedicated reading. They will be invited to bring in further readings and works to collectively organise a public reading list and directory. Our intention is to engage closer to the space of contestation, application and resistance within firms and geographies. By extension, we hope to bring further attention to specific problems in need of academic and public awareness in the UK and London. This event series is supported by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and Data for Policy.
This event series is free and open to all.
Please find more information about the sessions below and the link to join:
Schedule
How can the university become a digitally ethical institution?
27 April 2022 | 18:00 - 19:00
Reading and resources linked to this event
- Data feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F.Klein
How can universities reduce digital inequality?
18 May 2022 | 18:00 - 19:00
Reading and resources linked to this event
- Algorithmic inequality by Virginia Eubanks
- Threat of racial and economic inequaility increases preference for algorithm decision-making by Yochanan E. Bigman et al.
Speculative fiction and imagining empowering technological futures
15 June 2022 | 18:00 - 19:00
Reading and resources linked to this event
- Sci-fi is a good way to learn political theory in WIRED
- Ted Chiang's soulful science fiction in The New Yorker
- Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear in BuzzFeed News
- Watch Blaxites from the Surveillance Studies Centre
Further sessions TBA
Further information
Ticketing
Open
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes