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  • ESC POD: Undergraduate Student Mixer

    For ESC and the ESC-curious, join us to learn more about the center and a community of researchers interested in ESC topics. Get some food, play some games, talk to some people, and learn about opportunities!

  • David Nemer: WhatsApp and Radicalization

    During the 2018 Brazilian general election, WhatsApp became a potent tool for the spread of misinformation, especially for supporters of Bolsonaro. Now, ten months into Bolsonaro’s presidency, WhatsApp is still serving as a largely hidden platform for the radicalization of right-wing Brazilians. Join us for a discussion of the hidden spaces of populism and misinformation on WhatsApp.

  • Nicholas Diakopoulos: Algorithms and the News

    340 West Hall 1085 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and other news aggregators mediate and influence a huge portion of human attention. But as private platforms, there are few public details about how their algorithms serve to drive public exposure and salience of news. What types and sources of news are made available and prioritized? What’s the quality? Are there diverse perspectives represented?

  • Sasha Costanza-Chock: Design Justice

    Koessler Room, Michigan League 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    In this talk, Dr. Costanza-Chock presents an overview of their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, published by the MIT Press in 2020. The book is an exploration of how we might re-imagine design to be led by marginalized communities as a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, and support ecological survival.

  • Book Signing with Sasha Costanza-Chock

    Conference Room C, Michigan League 911 N University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Join us for a book signing with Sasha Constanza-Chock. Their new book is Design Justice: Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.

  • CANCELLED: ESC POD: Graduate Student Mixer

    The Circ Bar 2nd Floor Lounge, 210 South First Street, Ann Arbor, MI, MI, United States

    For ESC and the ESC-curious, join us to learn more about the center and a community of researchers interested in ESC topics.

  • CANCELLED: ESC POD: Faculty Mixer

    For ESC and the ESC-curious, join us to learn more about the center and a community of researchers interested in ESC topics.

  • CANCELLED: How to do Feminist Robotics

    ESC ARTIST Katherine Behar and a panel of collaborators will discuss cross-disciplinary collaboration between art and engineering. Experiences from the "Anonymous Autonomous" project will be used as an example.