Calendar

Digital Futures is a 2015-2017 event series at the University of Michigan. This calendar lists Digital Futures events, related events, and co-sponsored events in chronological order.

• Living in the Culture of Big Data
  danah boyd — Tuesday, September 15, 2015; 1:30 p.m.
• Digital South Asia (Conference)
  October 2-3, 2015
• Dirty Bits: The Environmental History of the Computer
  Nathan Ensmenger — Monday, November 9, 2015; 4:00 p.m.
• Game Changers: Video Games from Technology Product to Cultural Form
  Leigh Alexander — Thursday, October 1, 2015; 11:00 a.m.
• Digital Korea (Conference)
  November 13-14, 2015
• Death, Identity, and the Social Network
  Jed Brubaker — Tuesday, December 8, 2015; 12 p.m.
• Why Ad Blocking is a Good Thing 
  Doc Searls — Tuesday, December 15, 2015; 11:30 a.m. (*)
• Leveraging Network Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges  
  Noshir Contractor — Friday, January 15, 2015; 1:30 p.m. (*)
• Cognitive Systems
  Guruduth Banavar — Thursday, March 10, 2016; 5:10 p.m.
• Networking Peripheries: The Myth of Digital Universalism 
  Anita Say Chan — Thursday, March 31, 2016; 1:00 p.m. (*)
• Communicating Self in a Networked World
  Natalie Bazarova — Thursday, April 7, 2016; 1:00 p.m. (*)
• Critical Internet Cultures: From Selfie Cult to Mask Design 
  Geert Lovink — Tuesday, April 12, 2016; 12:00 p.m. (*)
• What is Digital Studies at the University of Michigan? (Workshop)
  Friday, April 15, 2006; 11:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
• Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
  Wendy Hui Kyong Chun — Friday, April 15, 2006; 4:15 p.m.
• Plans and Models: Digital Tools and the Problem of Innovation 
  Gina Neff — Thursday, April 21, 2016; 1:00 p.m. (*)
• Information and Communication Technologies and Development (Conference)
  June 3-6, 2016 (ICTD 2016)
• Experimental Games
  Patrick Jagoda — Wednesday, September 14, 2016; 5:30 p.m.
• The Naked Blogger of Cairo
  Marwan M. Kraidy — Thursday, September 15, 2016; 4:00 p.m.
• Network Aesthetics (roundtable)
  Thursday, September 15, 2016; 5:00 p.m.
• The Future of Collective Innovation 
  Liz Gerber — Friday, September 30, 2016; 1:00 p.m.
• Creating and Curating a Profile in Social Media
  Liz Losh — Friday, September 30, 2016; 3:00 p.m.
• Digital Doors: Access, Disability, and Emerging Technologies
  Elizabeth Ellcessor — Tuesday, November 15, 2016; 4:00 p.m. (*)
• The Fragmented Media Environment
  Magdalena Wojcieszak — Tuesday, November 29, 2016; 4:00 p.m. (*)
• Uncommon People: Digital Technologies and the Struggle for Community
  Jessa Lingel — Tuesday, October 4, 2016; 12:00 p.m.
• The Cybernetic Fantasy of Value
  Seb Franklin — Wednesday, November 2, 2016; 4:00 p.m.
• Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten
  Meg Jones — Monday, February 20, 2017; 4:00 p.m.
• Incidental News: The Consumption of Current Events Information among Young People
  Pablo Boczkowski — Monday, March 6, 2017; 4:00 p.m.
• Queer Geek Methodologies
  Alexis Lothian — Thursday, March 30, 2017; 4:00 p.m.
• Hacking Biopolitics
  Heather Dewey-Hagborg — Thursday, April 6, 2017; 5:00 p.m.
• Postcivil and Hypersocial: Digital Media after the Rise of Social Networking Platforms
  Tiziana Terranova — Friday, April 14, 2017; 4:00 p.m.

(*) – The primary funding for these events comes from the Digital Futures event series. Other events are co-sponsored or related.

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