Hello everyone, This two-day workshop and symposium is next week and we have the full programme online! If you are around London then drop by to one or all of the session, but be sure to register here--> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-ways-of-seeing-21-22-may-2014-tickets... Critical Ways of Seeing 21-22/5/2014 Visualizing Knowledge and the Digital - Tool, Politics, or Art? Two Day Symposium and Master Class with Dr Philippe Rekacewicz (Head Geographer & Cartographer, Le Monde Diplomatique), Giulio Frigieri (Infographics, The Guardian), Alfredo Cramerotti (Mostyn, Wales' Contemporary Art Centre), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Media Activist, Tel Aviv/New York), Galia Offri (Artist/Tel Aviv), Stefano Cagol (Contemporary Artist, Italy) and Davina Jackson (d-city network). In critical media and communications research there has been a marked increase in interest in web-based ways of gathering, generating, and visualizing knowledge. These include digital tools that navigate and map the web itself, infographics, and interactive maps for research, policy-making, activism and advocacy. These techniques make use of official databases but increasingly work with "Big Data" as well as real-time forms of data-gathering through "crowdsourcing" to raise awareness about humanitarian crises, natural disasters, as well as mobilise people around a range of political and social issues. Humanitarian, environmental, and commercial uses of digital tracking, mapping, and crowdsourcing are not always compatible with each other, and they also raise challenging questions about freedom of expression, privacy, intellectual property rights, and research ethics based on informed consent. Moreover, the politics of ownership and control of our data and the data of others is becoming more urgent as large corporations and governments can accumulate this data and then grant or restrict access to it in non-accountable ways. Hosts: Global Media & Transnational Communications Program and Radical Media Forum of the Media & Communications Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Convener: Prof. Marianne Franklin, with Elinor Carmi and Paola Crespi. This two-day workshop brings world-renowned exponents of conventional and radical cartography, media digital activism, and contemporary art once again to the Media & Communications Department. When & Where: May 21-22, 2014, New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London.? All sessions are open to registered participants. For the full programme and more details please visit: http://radmediaforum.wordpress.com/2013-14-events-2/critical-ways-of-seeing-... All the best, Elinor Carmi, MPhil/PhD Candidate, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @pinkeee_