At this event, Elinor Carmi will be presenting on her work, Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media. A question period will follow the lecture.
This event is co-hosted by McGill University’s Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the Algorithmic Media Observatory at Concordia and Machine Agencies.
Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Initiative for Indigenous Futures
Algorithmic Media Observatory
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Cinema Politica
McGill’s Department of History and Classical Studies
Black Feminist Futures Working Group
Sustainability Projects Fund
Moving Image Research Laboratory
McGill Writing Centre
MUTEK_IMG
Intersectionality Research Hub
Machine Agencies
There is no fee required to attend this event. This is a scent-free event. The room is accessible to people with mobility disabilities.
About Elinor Carmi
Elinor Carmi is a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist who has been working, writing and teaching on deviant media, internet standards, (cyber)feminism, sound studies and internet governance. Her second monograph will be out in early 2020, titled Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media, published on the Digital Formation Series at Peter Lang Publishing.
Currently, Carmi is a postdoctoral research associate in digital culture and society at Liverpool University, where she is working on several Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) projects. She is also part of the Nuffield Foundation funded project, Me and My Big Data: Developing UK Citizens Data Literacies.
At the moment Carmi is working on two special issues for Theory, Culture & Society with Brittany Paris about redesigning time, and for the Internet Policy Review with Simeon Yates about what digital literacy means today. Before academia, Carmi worked in the electronic dance music industry for various labels and was a radio broadcaster and music television editor for almost a decade.
In 2013, she published a book about the Israeli Psytrance culture, titled TranceMission: The Psytrance Culture in Israel 1989-1999 (Resling Publishing). She also tweets @Elinor_Carmi.