The department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto invites everyone in town after the ICA to the Brazilian Day of Media and Communication Research.

Book talk with Sahana Udupa (University of Munich) and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (New York University) on Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media (NYU Press). The book is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary “decolonizing” movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication.

Book talk with Ignacio Siles (Universidad de Costa Rica) on Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica (MIT Press). The book analyzes user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms: Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok.