Dr. Sophie Toupin & Nina Morena on Activist Knowledge Production & Circulation Related to AI, Big Data, and Digital Tech: A Seminar + Zine Making

This event will be hybrid (with Professional Live Captions in English on the livestream).
It will happen in person and there will be a livestream.

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This workshop will begin with presentations by Dr. Sophie Toupin and Nina Morena about tech zines and the practices and narratives associated with their creation and circulation. They will talk about who creates zines, and some examples of how they’ve been used, in particular among feminist tech communities. Part II will be a zine-making workshop, where people in attendance will be encouraged to create their own zines about a topic of their choosing. This can be with physical materials or using an open source zine software.

Dr. Sophie Toupin is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University (Horizon program) where she examines critical perspectives in artificial intelligence. Sophie completed her PhD in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between communication technologies and anti-colonialism in the context of the national liberation struggle in South Africa. She is one of the three co-editors of The Handbook of Peer Production (Wiley, 2021) and has published in New Media & Society, Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologies, Feminist Media Studies, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, and Journal of Peer Production, among others.

Nina Morena is a PhD student in Communication Studies. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University and a BA in English Literature from McGill University. Her doctoral research explores the ways in which breast cancer patients seek and share health information on social media and how this impacts their disease management. Her research interests include the gendered politics and public discourses surrounding women’s cancers. She is particularly interested in intersections of gender and illness and how medical misinformation travels through platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

This event is part of the 4th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.

Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, MILA, Dean of Arts Grant, ReQEF, and more (see our website!)

There is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide professional captions in english. This event will NOT be recorded and NOT bemade available on our website after the event. However, you can watch other past events here.