Date/Time
Friday
9 Feb 2018
9:00 am - 6:30 pm

Location
Stanford University

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Stanford University
Building 200 (Lane History Corner), Room 307
http://events.stanford.edu/events/746/74663/

“Your Computer is on Fire” is 1-day intensive workshop addressing a wide variety of themes of central relevance to Media Studies, the History of Computing, Communication, STS, Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, among others: Machine Ethics, Algorithmic Politics, Techno-racial formations, Dialect normativity, Disability technology, Critical Media, and more.

SCHEDULE (subject to change)

9:00-9:30 | Welcome

Opening Remarks and Logistics
Thomas S. Mullaney (Stanford University)

9:30-11:00

“Policing is Pleasure”
Mitali Thakor, Northwestern University

TBA
Safiya Noble, UCLA

11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break

11:15-12:45

“Siri Practices Accent Bias”
Halcyon Lawrence, Georgia Institute of Technology

“The QWERTY Keyboard is Racist (and Dumb)”
Thomas S. Mullaney, Stanford University

(LUNCH PROVIDED FOR SPEAKERS & CHAIRS ONLY)

1:30-3:00

“Sexism is a Feature, not a Bug”
Marie Hicks, University of Madison-Wisconsin

“Skills Will Not Set You Free”
Sreela Sarkar, Santa Clara University

3:00-3:15 | Coffee Break

3:15-4:45

“Your AI is a Human”
Sarah Roberts, UCLA

“Networks Disobey Their Designs”
Ben Peters, University of Tulsa

4:45-6:00 | Open Discussion

(DINNER FOR SPEAKERS)