March 8, 2023: SIGCAS Works in Progress: Collective Action in Tech
March 8, 2023 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sigcas-works-in-progress-collective-action-in-tech-tickets-569593197587 Presenters: Emily Mazo, Nataliya Nedzhvetska, and JS Tan (MIT Grad Student Union) Since 2016, the number of collective actions taken by workers in the tech industry have risen dramatically. Kickstarter employees won union recognition from their company. Amazon workers led a cross tech-industry walkout to support […]
Making a Difference Award (2022)–Lisa Milenkovic
Dr. Lisa Milenkovic is the STEM+Computer Science Curriculum Supervisor at Broward County Public Schools, the nation’s sixth largest district (http://browardschools.com/stem). Dr. Milenkovic is the lead for the District’s Code.org Regional Partnership for CS, the K-12 STEM Olympiad and robotics, environmental stewardship, and several other grant funded programs to engage students and teachers in STEM. She […]
January 18, 2023: Reflections on Messy Ethnography: Conducting Research in Morocco and Palestine
January 18, 2023 10:00 AM PDT Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sigcas-works-in-progress-reflections-on-messy-ethnography-tickets-516047490937 Reflections on Messy Ethnography: Conducting Research in Morocco and Palestine Konstantin All and Sarah Rüller, University of Siegen (Germany) Konstantin and Sarah will talk about their experiences in critical areas and the role of ICT as well as the various roles of researchers from different perspectives, including […]
2022 SIGCAS Showcase Recap
Events at 20222 SIGCAS Showcase Social Responsibility in the Computing Profession Panel Panelists: Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech; President of ACM SIGCHI (Learning @SIGCHI) Katina Michael and Roba Abbas, Arizona State University; IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society (Corporate Social Responsibility and Soft Law Developments in the Design of Digital Services for Children) Moshe Vardi, Rice […]
ACM SIGCAS Tweets
I'll be at NYU next week talking about some of the recent tools we've been working on for collecting social media data, particularly from WhatsApp, Facebook and Telegram.
Would love to catch up if you are around! https://t.co/izFaVp6cfN
Oh hey... I have some news...
https://t.co/viNPYlbKuB
Interesting to contemplate the implications of this in democratic as well as less-democratic countries. My own thought is governance via citizens is different from governance by corporations and/or the digital complex. Are we seeing a historic turning point? @vardi #democracy #ai
“There is such a concentration of wealth and investment in a very narrow set of techniques”, @alexhanna told the Financial Times.
Research by @nurahmed demonstrates growing industry control over AI research: https://t.co/5nnkRUB60y
I'll be speaking at the event on March 28th, and you should also be able to hear from one of my wonderful students on April 25th too! 💖
So excited to learn more from other Fellows and student perspectives. Hope to see you there!! 🥳 https://t.co/doFkBTvUBM