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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Alice Wong
Sponsors
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from our guests:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
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
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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Alex Hanna
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from our guests:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist | Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President | Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
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
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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Beth Richie
Dána-Ain Davis
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from our guests:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
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
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
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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Sarah J. Jackson
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
Presidential Associate Professor; Co-Director | Annenberg School for Communication; Media, Inequality & Change Center
Twitter - @sjjphd
Works referenced in episode:
Copy and Audio Editors:
Daniel Christain
Jo Lampert
Bennett Pack
Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown
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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Timnit Gebru
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from our guests:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
Timnit Gebru
Founder & Executive Director | The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Cofounder, Black In AI
Twitter: @TimnitGebru
Works Referenced in Episode:
Copy and Audio Editor:
Dominic Bonelli
Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown
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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Miya Osaki
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from our guests:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Board President, Allied Media Projects
Twitter: @moyazb
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
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.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media | School of Communication
Director | Digital Democracies Institute
Twitter - @whkchun
Twitter - @SFU_DDI
Works referenced in episode:
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.
Copy and Audio Editors:
Kate In
Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown
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.
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Featuring
Moya Z Bailey
Aimi Hamraie
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
Associate professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies
Director, Critical Design Lab
Vanderbilt University
Twitter - @AimiHamraie
Relevant or related works:
In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, who is The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in History of Medicine. Dr. Cooper Owens goes into detail about her journey of becoming a historian and speaker, and how that journey keeps her grounded, yet committed to teaching community-based history. Her story reminds us of all the challenges and personal costs when building the worlds that we need.
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Featuring
Moya Z Bailey
Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor History of Medicine | University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Director of the Humanities and Medicine program | University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Director of the Program in African American History | Library Company of Philadelphia
Facebook - Diedre Cooper Owens
Twitter - @drcooperowens
LinkedIn - Diedre Cooper Owens
Instagram - @deirdrecooperowens
Relevant or related works:
In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Sasha Costanza-Chock, who is the Director of Research & Design at the Algorithmic Justice League ( ajlunited.org ). Sasha goes into detail about the journey of the Algorithmic Justice League thus far, and the influence of social movements when it comes to building the worlds that we need.
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Featuring
Moya Z Bailey
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
Director of Research and Design | Algorithm Justice League
Faculty Associate | Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society
Committee Member | Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network
Twitter - @schock
Papers/Journal referred to in episode:
In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Jeanette Lee who is the co-executive director of Allied Media Projects. Jeanette discusses her introduction into media-based organizing, the journey thus far with Allied Media Projects, and what the future holds for herself and the rest of humanity.
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Featuring
Moya Z Bailey
Jeanette Lee
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
Co-Executive Director | Allied Media Projects
Twitter - @jeanettelx
Twitter - @Allied_Media
Twitter - @AlliedMediaConf
For the inaugural episode, Moya Bailey is interviewed about her plans for the Digital Alchemy podcast by PhD students working in her Digital Apothecary lab: Bailey Flynn, Yena Lee, Annika Pinch. Moya also discusses her vision for the podcast and what to expect in future episodes.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Bailey Flynn
Yena Lee
Annika Pinch
Sponsor:
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMisogynoir
Bailey Flynn
PhD Student | Media, Technology, and Society PhD program
Twitter - @bflynnlearns
Instagram - @natcomm
Yena Lee
PhD Student | Media, Technology, and Society PhD program
Northwestern University
Twitter - @letterhead234
@datasociety
Annika Pinch
PhD Student | Media, Technology, and Society PhD program
Northwestern University
Twitter - @annika_pinch
@NU_MTS