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Re: [change] [Researchers] [Talk reminder] Change Seminar 4/30: Jared Fishman & Joanie Weaver - Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system
by Innocent Obi 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Talk is happening today! *Seminar Details* Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93631628972 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://washington.zoom.us/j/93631628972&sa=D&…> On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:03 PM Innocent Obi <innoobi(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Quick reminder that next Tuesday, *April 30th*, Change seminar is excited > to have (virtually) Jared > <https://www.google.com/search?q=jated+Fishnab&oq=jated+Fishnab&gs_lcrp=EgZj…> > and Joanie <https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaniew> from the Justice > Innovation Lab <https://www.justiceinnovationlab.org/>. They will speak > to us about their work in using data science and HCDE to make our justice > system more fair and effective. This talk is co-hosted with the Behavioral Data > Science Group <https://behavioral-data.github.io/>. We look forward to > seeing you all there. See more details below. Please RSVP if you are > planning to attend! <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> > > *Title:* Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more > fair and effective justice system > > *Seminar Details* > Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates > Center) > Zoom: TBA (subscribe to our public calendar > <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19kZjM0MjNlMjE4NzFhYWRhNWY0Mj…> or > check our website <https://change.washington.edu/>) > > *Description:* Over 10 million people cycle through jails each year, > mostly for low-level, non-violent offenses. Around 2 million people are > living behind bars on any given day, with hundreds of thousands held > without a conviction while awaiting trial. This has a particularly > devastating impact on minority and low-income communities, which are > disproportionately represented in the criminal legal system. At Justice > Innovation Lab, we help communities improve public safety while reducing > harmful outcomes, including unnecessary incarceration and unjust racial and > economic disparities. This talk will explain how Justice Innovation Lab is > helping communities use system-thinking, human-centered design and > data-analytics to improve community outcomes. > > *Bio:* > *Jared Fishman* (he/him) - Jared Fishman is committed to finding > innovative solutions to the complex, social justice challenges of our > times. He is the founder and executive director of Justice Innovation Lab. > Prior to founding JIL, Jared served for 14 years as a federal prosecutor > in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He led some of > America’s most complex civil rights prosecutions, securing convictions in > high-profile cases involving police misconduct, hate crimes, and human > trafficking. He is the author of Fire on the Levee: the Murder of Henry > Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina. Jared serves > as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and > Georgetown University. His work and analysis have been featured on CNN, > CBS, CBC, and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jared earned > his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, and his > bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. > > *Joanie Weaver (*she/her) - Joanie is a data engineer at the Justice > Innovation Lab. In this role, she partners with District Attorney’s offices > to help them clean and analyze their prosecution data to identify > inefficiencies and racial disparities. Prior to her role at Justice > Innovation Lab, Joanie received her Master’s in Information and Data > Science from UC Berkeley, worked at Microsoft, and received a Bachelor of > Science in Computer Science from MIT. > > *Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) *- Justice Innovation Lab is an > organization that builds data-informed, people-centered solutions for a > more fair and effective justice system. Justice Innovation Lab helps > communities across the U.S. identify and fix harmful outcomes in their > criminal justice systems. JIL uses a collaborative, data-informed approach > to identify and fix harmful outcomes in criminal justice systems across the > US. > > If you are interested, please fill out this RSVP > <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> form so that we can ensure that we > have enough lunch for those attending. > > Best, > > UW Change Organizers > _______________________________________________ > Researchers mailing list > Researchers(a)cs.washington.edu > https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers >

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[Talk reminder] Change Seminar 4/30: Jared Fishman & Joanie Weaver - Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system
by Innocent Obi 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Hi everyone! Quick reminder that next Tuesday, *April 30th*, Change seminar is excited to have (virtually) Jared <https://www.google.com/search?q=jated+Fishnab&oq=jated+Fishnab&gs_lcrp=EgZj…> and Joanie <https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaniew> from the Justice Innovation Lab <https://www.justiceinnovationlab.org/>. They will speak to us about their work in using data science and HCDE to make our justice system more fair and effective. This talk is co-hosted with the Behavioral Data Science Group <https://behavioral-data.github.io/>. We look forward to seeing you all there. See more details below. Please RSVP if you are planning to attend! <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> *Title:* Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system *Seminar Details* Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) Zoom: TBA (subscribe to our public calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19kZjM0MjNlMjE4NzFhYWRhNWY0Mj…> or check our website <https://change.washington.edu/>) *Description:* Over 10 million people cycle through jails each year, mostly for low-level, non-violent offenses. Around 2 million people are living behind bars on any given day, with hundreds of thousands held without a conviction while awaiting trial. This has a particularly devastating impact on minority and low-income communities, which are disproportionately represented in the criminal legal system. At Justice Innovation Lab, we help communities improve public safety while reducing harmful outcomes, including unnecessary incarceration and unjust racial and economic disparities. This talk will explain how Justice Innovation Lab is helping communities use system-thinking, human-centered design and data-analytics to improve community outcomes. *Bio:* *Jared Fishman* (he/him) - Jared Fishman is committed to finding innovative solutions to the complex, social justice challenges of our times. He is the founder and executive director of Justice Innovation Lab. Prior to founding JIL, Jared served for 14 years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He led some of America’s most complex civil rights prosecutions, securing convictions in high-profile cases involving police misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking. He is the author of Fire on the Levee: the Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina. Jared serves as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and Georgetown University. His work and analysis have been featured on CNN, CBS, CBC, and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jared earned his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. *Joanie Weaver (*she/her) - Joanie is a data engineer at the Justice Innovation Lab. In this role, she partners with District Attorney’s offices to help them clean and analyze their prosecution data to identify inefficiencies and racial disparities. Prior to her role at Justice Innovation Lab, Joanie received her Master’s in Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley, worked at Microsoft, and received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from MIT. *Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) *- Justice Innovation Lab is an organization that builds data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system. Justice Innovation Lab helps communities across the U.S. identify and fix harmful outcomes in their criminal justice systems. JIL uses a collaborative, data-informed approach to identify and fix harmful outcomes in criminal justice systems across the US. If you are interested, please fill out this RSVP <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> form so that we can ensure that we have enough lunch for those attending. Best, UW Change Organizers

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Change Seminar 4/23: Esther Jang - Infrastructuring at the Margins: Building Power Through the Practice of Community Networking
by Innocent Ndubuisi-Obi Jr 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi everyone, Remember that instead of our usual Change structure for this quarter, tomorrow we will instead be 'hosting' Esther Jang's thesis defense. What does this mean? * Change will still start at 12PM but run till around 12:30PM. We will unofficial start at 11:30AM. * If you can make it at 11:30PM when Esther will begin presenting, perfect! * You can attend virtually here: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91873963156 Best, --------------- When: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 11:30AM - 1:00PM Where: Gates Center (CSE2) 271 Title: Infrastructuring at the Margins: Building Power Through the Practice of Community Networking Advisor: Kurtis Heimerl Supervisory Committee: Kurtis Heimerl (Chair), June Lukuyu (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Richard Anderson, Jennifer Mankoff Abstract: This thesis provides three case studies of people claiming power over technology through DIY infrastructure building activities, in the context of ongoing community network (CN) projects and within diverse settings of technological marginality. The first presents the material hardships of achieving local technology repair in remote rural cove communities in the Philippines, identifies successful communities of practice around electrical line repair, and outlines requirements for sustaining what we term “training grounds,” an ecosystem of learning opportunities for new entrants into the community of practice. This concept emphasizes the importance of in-context “actual” problems for learners to solve as well as access to learning resources such as tools and expert knowledge. The second study uses the training grounds concept to establish a community of practice in an urban North American context for building and maintaining a community-operated broadband network for marginalized residents and neighborhoods. Through qualitative analysis of participant interviews from the Seattle Community Network (SCN) and NYC Mesh community networks as well as author participant observer journals from 2020-2023, the research presents a model for a non-profit, educational CN, termed a community learning network (CLN), that builds power among participants and produces a learning commons for in-context hands-on technical learning. Finally, the third study builds on the socio-technical infrastructure of SCN to conduct participatory design of networked sensing applications with residents of two self-managed Tiny House Villages (THVs) that SCN’s network serves, investigating the potential for IoT interventions to improve living conditions among low-resourced urban groups experiencing housing precarity. We identify land ownership, management, local regulations, and historical and current zoning as factors shaping the social problems and power relationships that the community must navigate, constraining the technologies residents can design, build, and maintain. Participants also emphasize the importance of data privacy and sovereignty for their collective protection, for example via a strict ban on camera-based visual or audio surveillance, and identify opportunities for sensors and actuators to improve village accessibility and alleviate resource sharing tensions. The three cases center a DIY and hands-on approach to infrastructure, emphasizing communities of practice and pedagogy as strategies for creating long-term structural change and empowerment through participation. They describe technical infrastructure as composed foundationally of the people whose actions produce and maintain them, and whose relationships, values, and constraints shape them. The latter two studies make extensive use of participant observation methodologies; the author argues that such reflexive methodologies can help technology developers capture and reflect on the values and ethics, collective or personal, that shape the products of design.

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Change Seminar 4/30: Jared Fishman & Joanie Weaver - Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system
by Innocent Obi 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Hi everyone! On *April 30th*, Change seminar is excited to have (virtually) Jared <https://www.google.com/search?q=jated+Fishnab&oq=jated+Fishnab&gs_lcrp=EgZj…> and Joanie <https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaniew> from the Justice Innovation Lab <https://www.justiceinnovationlab.org/>. They will speak to us about their work in using data science and HCDE to make our justice system more fair and effective. This talk is co-hosted with the Behavioral Data Science Group <https://behavioral-data.github.io/>. We look forward to seeing you all there. See more details below. *Title:* Building data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system *Seminar Details* Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) Zoom: TBA or subscribe to our public calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19kZjM0MjNlMjE4NzFhYWRhNWY0Mj…> ! *Description:* Over 10 million people cycle through jails each year, mostly for low-level, non-violent offenses. Around 2 million people are living behind bars on any given day, with hundreds of thousands held without a conviction while awaiting trial. This has a particularly devastating impact on minority and low-income communities, which are disproportionately represented in the criminal legal system. At Justice Innovation Lab, we help communities improve public safety while reducing harmful outcomes, including unnecessary incarceration and unjust racial and economic disparities. This talk will explain how Justice Innovation Lab is helping communities use system-thinking, human-centered design and data-analytics to improve community outcomes. *Bio:* *Jared Fishman* (he/him) - Jared Fishman is committed to finding innovative solutions to the complex, social justice challenges of our times. He is the founder and executive director of Justice Innovation Lab. Prior to founding JIL, Jared served for 14 years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He led some of America’s most complex civil rights prosecutions, securing convictions in high-profile cases involving police misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking. He is the author of Fire on the Levee: the Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina. Jared serves as adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and Georgetown University. His work and analysis have been featured on CNN, CBS, CBC, and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jared earned his law degree from the George Washington University Law School, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. *Joanie Weaver (*she/her) - Joanie is a data engineer at the Justice Innovation Lab. In this role, she partners with District Attorney’s offices to help them clean and analyze their prosecution data to identify inefficiencies and racial disparities. Prior to her role at Justice Innovation Lab, Joanie received her Master’s in Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley, worked at Microsoft, and received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from MIT. *Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) *- Justice Innovation Lab is an organization that builds data-informed, people-centered solutions for a more fair and effective justice system. Justice Innovation Lab helps communities across the U.S. identify and fix harmful outcomes in their criminal justice systems. JIL uses a collaborative, data-informed approach to identify and fix harmful outcomes in criminal justice systems across the US. If you are interested, please fill out this RSVP <https://forms.gle/yyAzVMKyFRt6QuZy8> form so that we can ensure that we have enough lunch for those attending. Best, UW Change Organizers

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CHANGE Seminar Tomorrow: Dhruv Agarwal on Culturally (Un)Aware AI
by Lisa Orii 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Hi everyone, Tomorrow at CHANGE Seminar, *Dhruv Agarwal* (he/him) will give a talk on *Culturally (Un)Aware AI.* Title: Culturally (Un)Aware AI Description: It is widely known that AI defaults to Western values and cultures, underrepresenting other cultures. In this talk, I will first show the downstream impacts of this cultural underrepresentation. I will discuss how current explainable AI techniques fail to include the cultural context of community health workers (CHWs) in India. Then, I will show how, conversely, carefully designed AI can help make technology more culturally appropriate. I will do so by discussing the design of a culturally appropriate conversational agent to facilitate the deliberation of harmful content on WhatsApp in the Global South. Bio: Dhruv Agarwal is a second-year Ph.D. student at Cornell University advised by Aditya Vashistha. He is a mixed-methods researcher working on Culturally Aware AI and has looked at this problem from various lenses ranging from explainable AI to online harmful content. He has won paper awards at CSCW and COMPASS and is an inaugural Quad Fellow. Born and brought up in India, he graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science from Ashoka University, India, and then spent two years at Microsoft Research India working on air pollution. He is passionate about the real-world impact of research and hopes to bridge the technological disparity in society. Outside work, Dhruv is an avid sportsperson and has played tennis, squash, and soccer competitively. *Location:* Tuesday from 12-1pm PST in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on *Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/9744652312 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/url?q=https:**Awashingto…> Best, UW Change Organizers

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FW: [Call for Papers] ICTD 2024: 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development
by Richard Anderson 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

From: Priyank Chandra <priyank.chandra(a)utoronto.ca> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2024 2:09 PM To: ictdpc2024(a)gmail.com Cc: Masinde Muthoni <emasinde(a)cut.ac.za> Subject: [Call for Papers] ICTD 2024: 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development Call for Papers: ICTD 2024 The 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2024), to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from December 9-11, 2024, invites you to submit research papers (http://www.ictd.org) About: ICTD 2024 provides an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006. The conference reflects the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of ICTD work, with representation from a broad range of areas (anthropology, communication, computer science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, global health, information science, political science, sociology, and many others), as well as participation from academia, industry, civil society, and government. Submission Guidelines: Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site - http://www.ictd.org. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library . Important Dates * 15 July 2024: Deadline for submission of Full Papers * 15 August 2024: Notification of acceptance for Full Papers * 15 September 2024: Camera-ready deadline for Full Papers All submissions are due 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Best Regards, Program Committee, ICTD 2024 * Muthoni Masinde (Central University of Technology, South Africa) * Priyank Chandra (University of Toronto, Canada) If you have any questions, please contact: ictdpc2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:ictdpc2024@gmail.com>

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CHANGE Seminar 4/9: Dhruv Agarwal on Culturally (Un)Aware AI
by Lisa Orii 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Hi everyone, At CHANGE Seminar on April 9th, we're grateful to have *Dhruv Agarwal* (he/him) give a talk on *Culturally (Un)Aware AI.* Title: Culturally (Un)Aware AI Description: It is widely known that AI defaults to Western values and cultures, underrepresenting other cultures. In this talk, I will first show the downstream impacts of this cultural underrepresentation. I will discuss how current explainable AI techniques fail to include the cultural context of community health workers (CHWs) in India. Then, I will show how, conversely, carefully designed AI can help make technology more culturally appropriate. I will do so by discussing the design of a culturally appropriate conversational agent to facilitate the deliberation of harmful content on WhatsApp in the Global South. Bio: Dhruv Agarwal is a second-year Ph.D. student at Cornell University advised by Aditya Vashistha. He is a mixed-methods researcher working on Culturally Aware AI and has looked at this problem from various lenses ranging from explainable AI to online harmful content. He has won paper awards at CSCW and COMPASS and is an inaugural Quad Fellow. Born and brought up in India, he graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science from Ashoka University, India, and then spent two years at Microsoft Research India working on air pollution. He is passionate about the real-world impact of research and hopes to bridge the technological disparity in society. Outside work, Dhruv is an avid sportsperson and has played tennis, squash, and soccer competitively. *Location:* Tuesday from 12-1pm PST in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on *Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/9744652312 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/url?q=https:**Awashingto…> Best, UW Change Organizers

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Re: [change] [Researchers] Tomorrow: Sharon Heung on Towards Addressing Ableism on Social Media
by Lisa Orii 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Room change: This is happening in CSE2 271! On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 9:30 AM Lisa Orii <lisaorii(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a reminder that tomorrow, Change seminar will have *Sharon Heung* (she/her) > give a talk on *Towards Addressing Ableism on Social Media.* > > *Abstract:* Social media is essential for the disability community as an > accessible alternative to socialize with others, advocate, and educate > others about disability, and provide emotional and information peer support > between disabled* people. While social media has fostered a sense of > belonging for the disability community, disabled social media users are > targets of ableism and disability-related hate online. Similar to other > historically marginalized individuals, disabled people are more at-risk of > experiencing identity-attacks that are damaging to their psychological and > emotional well-being and may lead to self-censorship. The very platforms > used for community support may also facilitate further marginalization of > disabled people. > > > > In this talk, I will share my existing contributions in understanding > ableism on social media: (1) ableist microaggressions experienced by > disabled social media users and (2) ableist hate and harassment experienced > by disabled content creators. I will highlight different forms of ableism, > including ableist speech (e.g. mocking & invalidating disability identity) > and instances of platform-enabled ableism (e.g. wrongful censorship). > Throughout, I will emphasize the immediate emotional harm and the long-term > impact of experiencing ableism online. I will then present my ongoing work > towards addressing ableism on social media, including designing moderation > tools to mitigate the harm of viewing ableist content. > > > > *We use the term disabled people, since identity-first language is > preferred by disability rights groups, the disability justice movement, and > mimics the language our participants used. > > > *Presenter Bio:* Sharon Heung is a PhD Candidate at Cornell Tech advised > by Aditya Vashistha and Shiri Azenkot. Her work is at the intersection > of accessibility, human-computer interactions, and digital safety. Her > research aims to understand platform-enabled ableism on social media to > better support disabled people’s self-expression and safety online. This > includes examining disability-related discrimination by other users and how > platforms facilitate and exacerbate such harmful experiences. She hopes to > reimagine a more inclusive digital space with and for the disability > community. Prior to Cornell, she received her bachelor’s in Human > Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington and worked > at AT&T's Experience Design Studio research team. Her work has been > supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. > > *Resources: *Papers on ableist microaggression > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3517428.3544…> > and ableist hate and harassment > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.adityavashistha.com/uploads/2/0/8/0…> > . > > *Location:* Tuesday from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda > Gates Center) or on *Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/9744652312 > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/url?q=https:**Awashingto…> > > Best, > UW Change Organizers > _______________________________________________ > Researchers mailing list > Researchers(a)cs.washington.edu > https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers >

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TASCHA Seminar: Claire Crawford on Navigating Governance and Governmentality in Digital India
by Jason Young 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hey Change Group, I thought that this talk on April 11th might be of interest: I hope that you can all join us for a lunch and talk with Dr. Claire Crawford, titled Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxed: navigating governance and governmentality in digital India! The first half an hour will be an informal lunch with Claire, followed by her talk at noon. The talk is co-hosted by TASCHA, GWSS, the South Asia Center, the eScience Institute, and the Data Minor. Please see below for more information, including a request to RSVP for food by April 9th. Thanks! Seminar: Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: navigating governance and governmentality in digital India Thursday, April 11th, 11.30am – 1pm (PT), iSchool, Allen 187 Grand Conference Room: The iSchool is located in Allen Library South, directly above the Research Commons. From the ground floor, go up one flight of stairs and follow enter the iSchool suite through the doors to the right. Someone will be there to direct you to the Conference Room. Lunch will be provided. Seminar Please join us for a seminar with Dr Claire Crawford<https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/people/academicstaff/claire-crawford/> who will be discussing her forthcoming paper Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: navigating governance and governmentality in digital India. Paper Abstract There is a growing body of work considering the relationship between the digital and governance; policy scholarship on regulation, IR scholarship on cyberconflict and security, and interdisciplinary critical scholarship on data and surveillance. However, this literature largely takes for granted the relationship between the intentions of the governing and the experiences of the governed. The state and corporate actors design and implement architectures of digital control, but it is non-state actors that identify, endure and resist these systems. In this paper I present emerging digital practices as tools of governance that reveal a co-constitutive relationship between the state, corporations and pro-government actors when viewed from the perspective of those who are governed. This governance works through diffused mechanisms that further construct a new digital governmentality. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with feminist activists in northern India between 2019 and 2023, I offer specific empirical detail on practices of internet shutdowns, shadowbanning and doxxing. Taking social movements as a lens because of their explicit politics of resistance, I demonstrate that it is important to develop an understanding of governance ‘from below’. Claire Crawford is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics at the University of York (UK) and a Visiting Fellow at the King’s College London Global South Research Group. Her research is about how the digital shapes social movement politics in India. She completed her PhD titled “Social movement politics: postcolonialism, feminism and the digital in India” in 2023. She is a member of the York Anti-Colonial Reading Group, the Politics of Style Collective, and the Algorithmic Governance Research Network. She volunteers with Project EduAccess and Age UK. This event is open to all including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Please register by April 9th and indicate restrictions here: https://forms.gle/KaUy2MQ2dnnYz7Aj6 --- Jason C. Young Senior Research Scientist Technology & Social Change Group University of Washington Pronouns: he, him youngjc2(a)uw.edu<mailto:youngjc2@uw.edu> The University of Washington resides on the homelands and waters of the Coast Salish Peoples, whose ancestors resided here since time immemorial. Many Indigenous peoples thrive in this place—alive and strong.

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Tomorrow: Sharon Heung on Towards Addressing Ableism on Social Media
by Lisa Orii 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hi all, This is a reminder that tomorrow, Change seminar will have *Sharon Heung* (she/her) give a talk on *Towards Addressing Ableism on Social Media.* *Abstract:* Social media is essential for the disability community as an accessible alternative to socialize with others, advocate, and educate others about disability, and provide emotional and information peer support between disabled* people. While social media has fostered a sense of belonging for the disability community, disabled social media users are targets of ableism and disability-related hate online. Similar to other historically marginalized individuals, disabled people are more at-risk of experiencing identity-attacks that are damaging to their psychological and emotional well-being and may lead to self-censorship. The very platforms used for community support may also facilitate further marginalization of disabled people. In this talk, I will share my existing contributions in understanding ableism on social media: (1) ableist microaggressions experienced by disabled social media users and (2) ableist hate and harassment experienced by disabled content creators. I will highlight different forms of ableism, including ableist speech (e.g. mocking & invalidating disability identity) and instances of platform-enabled ableism (e.g. wrongful censorship). Throughout, I will emphasize the immediate emotional harm and the long-term impact of experiencing ableism online. I will then present my ongoing work towards addressing ableism on social media, including designing moderation tools to mitigate the harm of viewing ableist content. *We use the term disabled people, since identity-first language is preferred by disability rights groups, the disability justice movement, and mimics the language our participants used. *Presenter Bio:* Sharon Heung is a PhD Candidate at Cornell Tech advised by Aditya Vashistha and Shiri Azenkot. Her work is at the intersection of accessibility, human-computer interactions, and digital safety. Her research aims to understand platform-enabled ableism on social media to better support disabled people’s self-expression and safety online. This includes examining disability-related discrimination by other users and how platforms facilitate and exacerbate such harmful experiences. She hopes to reimagine a more inclusive digital space with and for the disability community. Prior to Cornell, she received her bachelor’s in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington and worked at AT&T's Experience Design Studio research team. Her work has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. *Resources: *Papers on ableist microaggression <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3517428.3544…> and ableist hate and harassment <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.adityavashistha.com/uploads/2/0/8/0…> . *Location:* Tuesday from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on *Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/9744652312 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/url?q=https:**Awashingto…> Best, UW Change Organizers

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