Dr. Elinor Carni on Media Distortions

Dr. Elinor Carmi will be presenting on her work "Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media." The lecture will be followed by a question period.

This event is co-hosted by the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (of the IGSF of McGill) and the Algorithmic Media Observatory (of Concordia University).

Dr. 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 "Digital Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media", published on Digital Formation series at Peter Lang publishing. Currently Elinor is a Postdoc Research Associate in digital culture and society, at Liverpool University, UK, working on several ESRC and AHRC projects and part of the Nuffield Foundation funded project Me and My Big Data: Developing UK Citizens Data Literacies. At the moment she is working on two special issues: for Theory, Culture & Society together with Brittany Paris about 'Redesigning Time', and for the Internet Policy Review together with Simeon Yates about 'what digital literacy mean today'. Before academia, Elinor worked in the electronic dance music industry for various labels, was a radio broadcaster and a 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.

This event is part of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com). This series was made possible thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill, MILA, the Dean of Arts Development Fund of McGill, Media @McGill, McGill's Department of History and Classical Studies, the William Dawson Fund, RéQEF, the Moving Image Research Laboratory, Element AI, and L'Euguélionne: Montreal's Feminist Bookstore.

There is no fee required to attend this event. This is a scent free event. The room is accessible to people with mobility disabilities.