Digital Alchemy

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Digital Alchemy

With Moya Bailey

  1. 06/30/2023

    Digital Alchemy - Alice Wong, Digital Spaces as Freedom for Disabled Folks

    This episode features Alice Wong in conversation with Moya Bailey. Alice shares her experience with disabled activism in the digital era and how the advent of the internet enabled Alice to find community and the tools to create her platform. She elaborates one of her digital campaigns #HighRiskCA, which emerged during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021. Alice also suggests how academics can be accomplices to disabled activists. Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Bailey  Alice Wong Sponsors Northwestern University School of Communication  More from our guests:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network Board President, Allied Media Projects Twitter: @moyazb IG: @transformisogynoir Alice Wong Founder and Director of Disability Visibility Project Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility Instagram: @disability_visibility Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com Newsletter: https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io Copy and Audio Editor:   Dominic Bonelli  Executive Producer: DeVante Brown

    11 min

  2. 05/27/2023

    Digital Alchemy - Alex Hanna on Combating AI Injustice

    This episode features Dr. Alex Hanna in conversation with Professor Moya Bailey. Dr. Hanna discusses how the work of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) has activist applications in seeking to mitigate sociotechnical harms and algorithmic injustice. Dr. Hanna further elaborates on how young professionals interested in AI and machine learning can consciously navigate the industry and work to reconstruct harmful sociotechnical frameworks. Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Bailey  Alex Hanna Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication  More from our guests:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Digital Alchemist | Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network Board President | Allied Media Projects Twitter: @moyazb IG: @transformisogynoir Alex Hanna Director of Research | Distributed AI Research Institute  Twitter: @alexhanna Works Referenced in Episode:  Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (pp. 610-623).Spade, D. (2015). Normal life: Administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law. Duke University Press. Copy and Audio Editor:   Sharlene Burgos  Executive Producer: DeVante Brown

    13 min

  3. 05/27/2023

    Digital Alchemy- Beth Richie and Dána-Ain Davis on Being Academics and Black Feminist Activists

    In this episode of Digital Alchemy, academic sisters and political allies, Dr. Beth Richie and Dr. Dána-Ain Davis join Professor Moya Bailey for a conversation about their academic production and social justice work as it pertains to Black feminism, gender-based violence, reproductive injustice, abolition, and medical racism. In the spirit of digital alchemy, which Professor Bailey defines as “black women transform[ing] everyday digital media into valuable social justice magic”, Dr. Richie and Dr. Davis discuss how new technologies can serve as a tool to foster international community and function as an alternate space to continue learning and producing social justice work outside of the confines of academia.  Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Bailey  Beth Richie  Dána-Ain Davis  Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication  More from our guests:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network Board President, Allied Media Projects Twitter: @moyazb IG: @transformisogynoir Beth Richie  Head of the Department of Criminology, Law & Justice | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences LAS Distinguished Professor & Professor of Black Studies | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences  University of Illinois-Chicago Dána-Ain Davis Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Psychology & Director and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies | Graduate Center Director | Center for the Study of Women and Society  City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center  Works Referenced in Episode:  Bryant-Davis, T. (2019). The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema [Audio Podcast]. Lindley, T. (2022). Black Women's Dept. of Labor with Taja Lindley [Audio Podcast]. Copy and Audio Editors:   Bennett Pack  Sharlene Burgos  Executive Producer: DeVante Brown

    23 min

  4. 05/26/2023

    The Intricate Depths of Friendship in Collaboration: Sarah J. Jackson

    Colleagues Moya Bailey and Sarah J. Jackson discuss their past, present, and future collaborations and the importance of working together in interdisciplinary studies. Sharing some stories of past endeavors and progress on future goals, Moya and Sarah share their thoughts on professional collaborations while maintaining their friendship. Click here for the episode transcript    Featuring Moya Bailey Sarah J. Jackson   Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication More from the host & speakers:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Twitter - @Moyazb Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir Sarah J. Jackson Presidential Associate Professor; Co-Director | Annenberg School for Communication; Media, Inequality & Change Center University of Pennsylvania Twitter - @sjjphd Works referenced in episode:  Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Welles, B. F. (2020). # HashtagActivism: Networks of race and gender justice. Mit Press. Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2018). # GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online. New Media & Society, 20(5), 1868-1888.  Copy and Audio Editors: Daniel Christain Jo Lampert Bennett Pack Executive Producer: DeVante Brown

    14 min

  5. 05/25/2023

    Digital Alchemy - Timnit Gebru, Interdisciplinary, and Distributed AI Research

    In this episode, Moya Bailey speaks with Timnit Gebru about how her personal life, being born and raised in Ethiopia, and her professional life, most recently working at Google, has prepared her for her most recent efforts as Founder of the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute. She describes DAIR’s goals to build a distributed, interdisciplinary and diverse coalition to collectively identity and combat algorithmic bias against marginalized communities. Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Bailey  Timnit Gebru Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication  More from our guests:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network Board President, Allied Media Projects Twitter: @moyazb IG: @transformisogynoir Timnit Gebru Founder & Executive Director | The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Cofounder, Black In AI Twitter: @TimnitGebru Works Referenced in Episode:  Cade Metz and Daisuke Wakabayashi (December 3, 2020). Google researcher says she was fired over paper highlighting bias in A.I. New York Times, December 3, 2020. Raji, I. D., Gebru, T., Mitchell, M., Buolamwini, J., Lee, J., & Denton, E. (2020, February). Saving face: Investigating the ethical concerns of facial recognition auditing. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 145-151). Copy and Audio Editor:   Dominic Bonelli  Executive Producer: DeVante Brown

    16 min

  6. 05/04/2023

    Digital Alchemy - Miya Osaki, Centering Care in Design

    This episode features Miya Osaki in conversation with Professor Moya Bailey. Osaki shares her experiences working in systems of care including healthcare and the DIY music scene. These experiences led her to chair the Design For Social Innovation MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. Here, Osaki motivates her students to investigate the impact of health on people, systems, and environments within their work. Osaki relates Digital Alchemy to her work in that digital spaces create communities, but there aren’t enough spaces to allow for transparency and agency in these systems. Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Bailey  Miya Osaki Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication  More from our guests:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network Board President, Allied Media Projects Twitter: @moyazb IG: @transformisogynoir Miya Osaki Chair | Design For Social Innovation MFA program School of Visual Arts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miya-osaki-1a319430 Twitter: @MiyaOsaki Copy and Audio Editor:   Dominic Bonelli Executive Producer: DeVante Brown

    20 min

  7. 01/31/2023

    Wendy Chun - Engineering, Networks, and Social Justice Across Disciplines

    In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Wendy Chun, the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University and leader of the Digital Democracies Institute. Dr. Chun discusses how her personal and academic histories converged, motivating her interdisciplinary leadership in digital network and social justice research. She offers a behind-the-scenes take on her book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition, and discusses how Digital Alchemy has influenced her work.   Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Bailey Wendy Hui Kyong Chun   Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication More from the host & speakers:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Twitter - @Moyazb Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media | School of Communication Director | Digital Democracies Institute Simon Fraser University Twitter - @whkchun Twitter - @SFU_DDI  Works referenced in episode:  Chun, W. H. K. (2021). Discriminating data: Correlation, neighborhoods, and the new politics of recognition. MIT Press. Chun, W. H. K. (2016). Updating to remain the same: Habitual new media. MIT Press. Chun, W. H. K. (2011). Programmed visions: Software and memory. MIT Press. Chun, W. H. K. (2008). Control and freedom: Power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics. MIT Press. Copy and Audio Editors: Kate In Executive Producer:DeVante Brown

    20 min

  8. 01/25/2023

    Digital Alchemy - Aimi Hamraie on media design and disability

    In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Aimi Hamraie who is the Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and director of the Critical Design Lab. Aimi discusses their media design, talking about the importance of medium, form, and design in their work and how the digital helps with disability in their design. Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Moya Z Bailey Aimi Hamraie   Sponsor: Northwestern University School of Communication More from the host & speakers:    Moya Bailey Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University Twitter - @Moyazb Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir   Aimi Hamraie Associate professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies Director, Critical Design Lab Vanderbilt University Twitter - @AimiHamraie Relevant or related works: Hamraie, A. (2017). Building access: Universal design and the politics of disability. U of Minnesota Press.

    14 min
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  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
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