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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