digital methods for internet policy and politics
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AI Webinar EVENT longSocial Media and Promotional Culture
Jeremy Shtern
November 23, 2017
12:00p.m. (noon)
Questions about the democratic impact of social media political advertising have recently burst their way onto policy agendas and into public consciousness. But if politics can be manipulated by targeted social media content, what are the implications for our daily lives as consumers and citizens when brands and advertisers use the affordances of social media to influence our thinking and choices? Based on more than four years of research into social media advertising, Jeremy Shtern (Ryerson University) discusses the internet governance implications linked to the emergence of data-driven social media advertising. He makes the case for internet governance discussions to start paying more attention to the fact that advertising—historically a crucial policy agenda for governing electronic communication—is fundamentally shaping user experiences online and sponsoring the architecture of most public internet communication.
CJ 1.114
Loyola Campus
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street
Please be advised this timeline remains a work in progress.
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Baker, T. E. (1983). Computers and Political Campaigns: A Look at Technology and Social Change. Harvard University and the Center for Information Policy Research.
Chartrand, R. L. (1972). Computers and Political Campaigning. New York: Spartan Books.
Howard, P. N. (2006). New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Issenberg, S. (2012). The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. New York: Crown.
Kreiss, D. (2012). Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama. New York: Oxford University Press.
Perry, J. M. (1968). The New Politics: The Expanding Technology of Political Manipulation. New York: Clarkson N. Potter.
Smith, R. (1984, July 16). The New Political Machine. Computerworld.
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Robyn Maynard
November 9, 2017
4:30p.m.
Laying bare the violent realities behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black life in Canada. Through an unapologetically intersectional, feminist, and abolitionist lens, this talk looks at how slavery’s legacy has been carried forward by the state, exposing the social and historical forces behind carding/street checks, the war on drugs, the school-to-prison pipeline, welfare “fraud” and child welfare enforcement, deportation, and the disproportionate incarceration of Black folks in Canada’s jails, prisons, and immigration detention centres.
Milieux Institute, EV 11.705
Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine St. W
