{"id":596,"date":"2020-07-28T21:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~mica\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2021-03-11T21:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:39:23","slug":"understanding-media-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/understanding-media-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Understanding  Virtual Workshop I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class = \"section section--small section--white\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"grid grid--1-to-3\">\n      <h2>Workshop Objectives<\/h2>\n      <div> <p> Center for Computational Media Intelligence at USC and Google hosting a series of virtual workshop to bring together interdisciplinary scholars and researchers to discuss a variety of engaging topics. <\/p> <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<section class = \"\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <header class=\"grid\">\n      <h2> Schedule<\/h2>\n    <\/header>\n\t <p>  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>12pm: Introductory Remarks by Mr. Kree Cole-Mclaughlin &amp; Prof. Shrikanth<\/li><li>12:10pm &#8211; 1:25pm: Session I (moderated by Krishna Somandepalli<ul><li>Dr. Wendy Chun<\/li><li>Dr. Emily Denton<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>1:25pm &#8211; 1:40pm: Break<\/li><li>1:40pm &#8211; 2:55pm: Session II (moderated by Kandrea Wade)<ul><li>Dr. Caroline Heldman<\/li><li>Dr. Knatokie Ford<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>2:55pm &#8211; 3:00pm: Concluding Remarks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<section class = \"section section--small section--white\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <header class=\"grid\">\n      <h2> Speakers<\/h2>\n    <\/header>\n\t <p> We are honored to feature the following experts&#8230; <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/modules\/wendy-chun-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"898\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wendy-Chun-6-898x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"583\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wendy-Chun-6.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/modules\/wendy-chun-6\/\" class=\"wp-image-583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wendy-Chun-6-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wendy-Chun-6-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wendy-Chun-6-768x876.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wendy-Chun-6.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/communication\/team\/faculty\/wendy-chun.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Wendy Chun (opens in a new tab)\">Wendy Chun<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/modules\/emily\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emily.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"570\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emily.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/modules\/emily\/\" class=\"wp-image-570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emily.png 300w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emily-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cephaloponderer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Emily Denton (opens in a new tab)\">Emily Denton<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/modules\/bio-caroline-heldman-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bio-caroline-heldman-4.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"572\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bio-caroline-heldman-4.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/modules\/bio-caroline-heldman-4\/\" class=\"wp-image-572\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seejane.org\/bio\/caroline-heldman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Caroline Heldman (opens in a new tab)\">Caroline Heldman<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/understanding-media-workshop\/knatokie_ford\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/knatokie_ford.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"622\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/~ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/knatokie_ford.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/~ccmi\/understanding-media-workshop\/knatokie_ford\/\" class=\"wp-image-622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/knatokie_ford.jpeg 336w, https:\/\/sail.usc.edu\/ccmi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/knatokie_ford-238x300.jpeg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knatokieford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Knatokie Ford (opens in a new tab)\">Knatokie Ford<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<section class=\"section section--small section--white\">\n  <div class=\"container container--small\">\n    <header class=\"grid\">\n      <h2>Talk Descriptions<\/h2>\n    <\/header>\n    <div class=\"tabs\">\n      <div class=\"tabs__labels\">\n        <label class=\"tabs__label active\" for=\"hd1\">\n          Wendy Chun        <\/label>\n        <label class=\"tabs__label\" for=\"hd2\">\n          Emily Denton        <\/label>\n        <label class=\"tabs__label\" for=\"hd3\">\n          Caroline Heldman        <\/label>\n        <label class=\"tabs__label\" for=\"hd4\">\n          Knatokie Ford        <\/label>\n        <label class=\"tabs__label\" for=\"hd5\">\n                  <\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"tabs__content\">\n        <input type=\"radio\" checked=\"\" class=\"tab__button\" name=\"current\" id=\"hd1\">\n        <div class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\tHow might we use machine learning to both understand historical patterns of discrimination and to shape new, more just futures?  How might we treat them as we do global climate change models? These models which give us the likely future, given past and present actions and mistakes, not so that we&#8217;ll accept this future, but rather seek to change it.        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"radio\" class=\"tab__button\" name=\"current\" id=\"hd2\">\n        <div class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\tI&#8217;ll be discussing an ongoing research agenda aimed at characterizing the social and cultural diversity of the people represented in image sets, in the context of image retrieval systems. Specifically, I&#8217;ll be focusing on the social and ethical challenges of this project that emerge due to the necessity of algorithmically encoding\/quantifying visual characteristics  of people that act as signifiers for complex (and fundamentally non-visual) social categories such as gender, race, etc.            \n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"radio\" class=\"tab__button\" name=\"current\" id=\"hd3\">\n        <div class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\tThis presentation examines the ethics and challenges of measuring socially constructed identity categories. More specifically, Dr. Heldman will provide an overview of how race, gender, and other identity groups are assigned social meaning, then discuss how this complicates the process of measuring these identities in media content. She will lay out steps taken during the research process to improve validity and reliability, as well as discuss ethical issues in using identity categories in media research.         <\/div>\n        <input type=\"radio\" class=\"tab__button\" name=\"current\" id=\"hd4\">\n        <div class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\tProsocial and business imperative of leveraging\/optimizing technology to mitigate bias in media in order to promote scalable and sustained progress in society.         <\/div>\n        <input type=\"radio\" class=\"tab__button\" name=\"current\" id=\"hd5\">\n        <div class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class = \"\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <header class=\"grid\">\n      <h2> Session I: Dr. Wendy Chun and Dr. Emily Denton<\/h2>\n    <\/header>\n\t <p>  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQiRG30-L9GKzHUEGyVQSm_DsSYvLbe7wqm34F6ZU3vC7T2GHDTt05n2mhKgn8iUSCdrPtGuN1CKX2N\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=30000\" width=\"960\" height=\"569\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<section class = \"\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <header class=\"grid\">\n      <h2> Session II: Dr. Caroline Heldman and Dr. Knatokie Ford<\/h2>\n    <\/header>\n\t <p>  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vTMa8xCDSUMyjt9ic0sSLXMi-2iddXa7BhT8vxYluOgNP-9XdCAox7hVnQUbgCGEwY2S5VzQNQ1No0a\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=30000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"960\" height=\"569\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity &#038; Identification in Computational Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sail.usc.edu:\/ccmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}