technology

CSTV Movie night: Blade Runner

Cameron Shelley — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:24:12 +0000

CSTV Movie night: Blade Runner Cameron Shelley Wed, 02/12/2025 - 10:24

CSTV movie night: Blade Runner

Join us to enjoy and discuss the classic Sci-Fi movie Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott! Free popcorn! Free admittance! Screening followed by a discussion of the movie's relation to technology and society today!

Open to all ��ݮ��Ƶ students, staff, and faculty.

See you March 4 @ 6:30pm in E5 6004!

Critical Tech Talk 11: Speculative Imaginaries and Technological Design

Cameron Shelley — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:15:32 +0000

Critical Tech Talk 11: Speculative Imaginaries and Technological Design Cameron Shelley Fri, 01/17/2025 - 15:15

CSTV movie night: Rossum's Universal Robots

Cameron Shelley — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:53:54 +0000

CSTV movie night: Rossum's Universal Robots Cameron Shelley Thu, 10/27/2022 - 13:53

Join us to watch and discuss a performance of Karel Čapek's (1920) play "Rossum's Universal Robots," the work that introduced the word and concept of "robot" to the world.

When robots rise up, will humanity fall?

See you on November 10 at 7pm in E5 6006. Free admittance & free popcorn!

This performance is a presentation of Battle Damage Theater.

Critical Tech Talk: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination—Leveraging the Machinery of Value Sensitive Design

Cameron Shelley — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:58:55 +0000

Critical Tech Talk: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination—Leveraging the Machinery of Value Sensitive Design Cameron Shelley Mon, 10/03/2022 - 11:58

Join us on October 28 at 4pm, in-person or virtually via livestream, for Critical Tech Talk 4: Batya Friedman!

ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES “Don’t Look Up! Understanding Difficult Technological Truths"

Cameron Shelley — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:47:34 +0000

ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES “Don’t Look Up! Understanding Difficult Technological Truths" Cameron Shelley Tue, 09/27/2022 - 10:47

Artificial intelligence will take your job! Genetic engineering will accelerate the loss of biodiversity! The modern smart-city is a privacy disaster! Killer robots and technological progress are out of control! Is the techno-apocalypse upon us? Should we run for the exit? Or are there more nuanced ways to understand the complex interaction between technology and society and values?

Join Scott Campbell, Paul Heidebrecht, and Cameron Shelley online for a discussion of current social issues relating to technology and technological change.

See the Alumni Speaker Series event site for more details.

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits

Cameron Shelley — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:11:34 +0000

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits Cameron Shelley Fri, 10/29/2021 - 10:11

Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits

Monday, November 8, 2021, 5 PM | Theatre of the Arts, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, in-person and livestreamed | REGISTER

Silicon Valley companies have brought digital technology into every sphere of modern life. But while Big Tech garners unprecedented power and profits, everyday existence becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in the circuits of capital. To what end? What are the limits of the digital frontier?

About the speaker

Nicole Aschoff is an editor, writer and public sociologist focused on technology, labour, politics, feminism, the economy, and the environment. Her recent book is The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age. She examines the complex ways that people, institutions, and big systems, intersect to forge the society we live in. Aschoff holds a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University and currently works as a senior editor with Verso Books. Read more: nicoleaschoff.com

Panel discussion: Science and ethics in sport

Cameron Shelley — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:14:14 +0000

Panel discussion: Science and ethics in sport Cameron Shelley Tue, 09/26/2017 - 10:14

Science & Technology in Society—Panel discussion series:

Ethics in science, and science in ethics

How can science help us understand ethical issues in sports?

PDF: stins_poster_how_science_can_help_us_understand_ethical_issues_in_sports.pdf