The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns to our traditional in-person day-long format this year! Join us for a full day of presentations on a wide range of topics related to data studies, media studies, and digital studies, showcasing the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced across campus.

Program & Schedule · Click HERE for a PDF version.

Note: all in Knight Library DREAM Lab.
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9:30 AM: Opening Remarks + Welcome by D|M|D Grad Symposium organizers: UO Faculty Maxwell Foxman (SOJC), Heidi Kaufman (English & DH@UO), and Colin Koopman (Philosophy & NMCC)

9:45-11:15 AM: PANEL A: INFRASTRUCTURES
Moderator: Gabriela Chitwood (History of Art & Architecture)

Shuxi Wu, Asian Studies: “Regional Internets: The Mobile Telecom-Led Model of Internet Development in Japan and China”
S. Hamid, SOJC: “An Automated Pig Is Still a Pig”
Paul Showler, Philosophy: “Consider the Robot: An Ecumenical Account of AI Rights”

11:15-12:00 PM: FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

Helen Southworth, Professor, English: “Designing for the Diasporic Archive: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project”
Amanda Cote, Assistant Professor, SOJC: “The Digital Through the Material”

12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 PM: PANEL B: PROCESSES
Moderator: Maxwell Foxman (Media Studies, SOJC)

Kathleen Gekiere, English: “Caught in the Middle: Foraging Relationships with Matsutake and Huckleberries”
Hannah Gershone, Environmental Studies: “Transracial Adoptees and Uncertain Futurities: An Adoptee Art Archive”
Jared Hansen, SOJC: “Packaging Video Game Nostalgia: How Clone Consoles Sell New Experiences for Old Games”

3:00-3:30 PM: Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 PM: PANEL C: COMMUNITIES
Moderator: Heidi Kaufman (English + DH)

Molly McBride, Anthropology: “Cyborg Lesbians: TikTok’s Algorithm and the Construction of Sexuality”
Samantha Lorenzo and Megan Denneny, SOJC: “Conformation or Conspiracy: Exploring the Infiltration of Pop Culture Ideologies Among Millenials”
Andrew Wilson, SOJC: “Isolation Play: Video Game Uses and Gratifications During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

5:00-5:15 PM: Closing Remarks

Data|Media|Digital is an annual collaboration between the following University of Oregon units: Digital Humanities (Department of English), New Media & Culture Certificate, School of Journalism & Communication, with Digital Scholarship Services, University Libraries. Please visit the following sites for further information on Data|Media|Digital classes, programs, & events at the University of Oregon:

New Media and Culture Certificate for Grads (NMCC)
DH Minor, Department of English
PhD in Communication and Media Studies, SOJC
MA in Multimedia Journalism, SOJC
Media Studies Major and Minor, SOJC
Digital Scholarship Services (DSS), UO Libraries

ALGORITHMIC BIAS WORKSHOP

Fri. February 18th, 2PM, LLCS (Living Learning Center South) 101
Part of the Responsible Data Science Workshop Series (Winter and Spring 2022)

The “Responsible Data Science” series is a joint venture of the UO Data Science Initiative, Department of Philosophy, School of Law, and Oregon Health Sciences University. Each workshop in the series will focus on a different topic of concern for data-centric research environments. The first workshop is coming up on Friday, February 18th at 2:00 in LLCS (Living Learning Center South) 101, on the topic of Algorithmic Bias with NMCC faculty-affiliate, Ramon Alvarado (Assistant Professor of Philosophy).

The Algorithmic Bias Workshop will offer a set of conceptual tools for identifying forms of bias at different stages of the machine learning pipeline. We will also explore strategies for mitigating the unwanted effects of algorithmic bias. If these issues are relevant to your work, please come, bring a computer, and be prepared with questions.

Advanced Registration Requested: send a quick email indicating interest to Paul Showler in the Philosophy Department at pauls@uoregon.edu. Please be sure and include your name, position title, and campus affiliation.

The New Media and Culture Certificate is a transdisciplinary program open to graduate students working at the intersection of new media and culture in any masters or Ph.D. program at the University of Oregon.

The NMCC connects you to students working at the intersection of new media and culture and a wide range of topics from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as affiliated faculty committed to providing support for new media scholars at UO, regardless of their home department.

Though you’re welcome to apply at any point in their studies, there are limits to the number of credits taken before acceptance into the Certificate program that can count toward NMCC requirements. As such, you should apply as early in your graduate program as possible, and ideally as soon as you decide you want to pursue NMCC. Applications for the program are due by the middle of Week 5 every term. For Winter 2022, that deadline is fast approaching: Tuesday, February 1st.

Join us for a Virtual Q&A session on Friday, January 28th, 3-5 PM. Drop by any time with your questions + queries about the application process or the program more broadly.

Join us:

NMCC Winter 2022 Virtual Q+A
Date + Time: Friday, January 28th, 3-5 PM
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/nmccwinterqa
Passcode: protocol

Thurs, February 3rd, 3 PM, Virtual Book Launch
Fredi Washington: A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism

Join NMCC faculty affiliate Carol Stabile and the Reanimate Publishing Collective for a celebration and discussion of Fredi Washington: A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism, with special guest speaker Laurie Avant Woodard (City College of New York).

Published as part of the Reanimate publishing collective’s commitment to recovering the unheard voices of women and women of color in media industries, Fredi Washington transcribes the 305 columns Washington wrote for The People’s Voice and makes them available in open access format through the University of Minnesota Press’s Manifold platform. The reader also includes an introduction to the life and work of Washington written by Laurie Avant Woodard, who is writing the much-awaited first biography of Washington.

REGISTER NOW: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/frediwashingtonbooklaunch

JOIN US for the NMCC FALL 2021 Invited Panel:
MODEL REALITIES: Technological Projections & Their Politics

in-person: Friday, Nov. 19th, 2:00-4:30 PM
Crater Lake Room (EMU 145/146)

Lexi Neame, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Reed College:
“Model Affordances: Climate Science and the Prophetic Tradition”

Jake Fraser, Assistant Professor of German and Humanities, Reed College:
“The Reality of Computer Simulation: Cybernetics and the History of Simulated Futures”

Followed by Refreshments + NMCC Community Social.

THE ART OF THE NEWS SYMPOSIUM: November 19th – 20th

The symposium will feature artists from “The Art of the News: Comics Journalism” exhibit at the JSMA: Joe Sacco, Sarah Mirk, Gerardo Alba, Dan Archer, Tracy Chahwan, Jesús Cossio, Ben Passmore, and Andy Warner.

Curated by NMCC faculty affiliate Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English), with associate curator and director of Comics Studies, Ben Saunders (Professor, English), The Art of the News is the “first major retrospective devoted to this increasingly influential genre of visual narrative.”

Symposium Schedule:

Friday, November 19 
12-12:30pm: Opening Remarks, JSMA Ford Hall
1-2:30pm: Artist Roundtable (Alba, Archer, Mirk, Passmore), JSMA Ford Hall
3-4:30pm: Artist Talks in the Gallery (Chahwan, Cossio, Sacco, Warner), JSMA Barker Gallery
5:30-7pm: An Evening with Joe Sacco, PLC 180

Image source: Baseera Khan, By Faith, 2020, The Kitchen at Queenslab. Photo: Ariana Sarwari.

Lumi Tan: “Invisible Rooms: Performance and Institutions”
Critical Conversations Lecture

Thursday, October 28, 4:00 PM
Live on zoom and on the Department of Art Facebook.
Free and open to the public; details here.

Lumi Tan will speak about “the ways in which performance practices shift institutional value systems through her work curating time-based art for the white cube gallery, black box theater, and most recently, the computer screen. Thinking of issues of process, intimacy, documentation, audience, and site, Tan will connect this current work to the historical context of The Kitchen and the role of small scale institutions in the contemporary art ecosystem.”

Image source: Still from FKA Twigs – “Cellophane” directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

Andrew Thomas Huang: “Queer Morphologies & Digital Spirits”
Davis Family Lecture

Thursday, November 18, 4:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 177
Free and open to the public; details here.

Huang will share an overview of his “mixed media filmmaking career which interweaves live action, visual effects, puppetry and animation with his passion for folklore, mythology and queer futurism. The lecture will explore the process of world building and focus on the emergence of hybrid methodologies within one’s visual practice. This talk will also explore how combining digital tools with performance can enable new forms of self-reinvention and the construction of digital identities.”

Both lectures are part of the Department of Art and the Center for Art Research’s Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lectures.

UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art presents Digital GLAM Spaces

ONLINE · November 10th, 2021
Opening Keynote featuring Snowden Becker at 9 AM PST
11 panels, presentations, and lightning talks from 10 AM – 3:30 PM

“Digital GLAM Spaces is a free conference about building community around web accessibility and user experience. It’s a place for GLAM practitioners to share definitions and best practices for what is UX and accessibility; communicate digital strategies for incorporating user research into digital projects; and talk about the people, skillsets, and support needed to be better and make web accessibility and user experience part of our work instead of bolted on.”

Registration + details here.

Image source: Dan Archer, “What is Comics Journalism?,” 2014, digital.

NOW SHOWING: The Art of the News: Comics Journalism
September 24th, 2021 to January 16th, 2022
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Curated by NMCC faculty affiliate Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English), with associate curator and director of Comics Studies, Ben Saunders (Professor, English), The Art of the News is the “first major retrospective devoted to this increasingly influential genre of visual narrative.”

“By focusing not only on the finished works, but also on the methodology and techniques that each artist employs—the painstaking gathering of information through extensive research and interviews, and the labor-intensive production of comics pages—the exhibition highlights the ethical imperatives that drive this form of documentation.”

View The Art of the News through January 16th, 2022, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Museum hours and details here.

ANNOUNCING NMCC’s Fall 2021 Invited Panel: Technology | Media

Featuring Lexi Neame and Jake Fraser:

Lexi Neame, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College, is a political theorist and science and technology studies scholar. More on Lexi’s work here.

Jake Fraser, Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, works at the intersections of media history, literature, and philosophy. More on Jake’s work here.

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