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Tech Talk 3: The Making-Of the Inclusive Language Twitter Corpus

By Dr Diana Carter, Yarubi Diaz Colmenares (French, UWO), Bibiana Cortes (Data Science, UBCO), Lucas Quesada (UBCO). Our Tech Talk focuses on the experience of collecting and analyzing a Twitter corpus to observe current uses of inclusive language in Spanish. […]

Fred Wah Epic Reading curated by Xiaoxuan Huang

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Love poetry? Join us at the AMP Lab for an epic reading experiment. We'll take turns reading aloud from Fred Wah's collected body of poetry, as curated and guided by poet and former AMP Lab Artist-in-Residence Xiaoxuan Huang (MFA). Come […]

Tech Talk 4: Digital platforms and cultural diversity

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By Dr. Kyong Yoon Drawing on a critical analysis of subscription video-on-demand platforms, such as Netflix, this talk explores how cultural diversity is incorporated into, and “recommended” by, the digital platforms’ algorithmic intermediation of cultural content. Kyong Yoon is a […]

Tech Talk #7: Gaming the Anthropocene

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This Tech Talk poses questions such as: how might you out-game runaway climate change? This play-test of Anthropocene, a new multi-play tabletop game, takes tech back to its analog roots in opening up space to discuss climate justice. Join us […]

Tech Talk #8: Attempting the Ekphrastic

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Attempting the ekphrastic: The corrugating effect of Instagram and the Open Science Framework presented by PhD Candidate Madeline Donald. Alt-text or alternative text is a key accessibility feature for content online, allowing folks who are blind or low-vision to engage […]