Algorithmic Technology and Society

About their research

Algorithmic technologies and AI proliferate in multiple sectors and aspects of social life, prompting scholars from a multiplicity of disciplines to create interdisciplinary research spaces that bring together different perspectives and expertise on technological development. This working group gathers scholars working on the history of science and technology, philosophy of technology, political economy, environmental sciences, social theory, media studies, marketing, literary studies, geography and political theory. 

The objective of this working group is to foster better shared and critically informed understandings of the social, cultural, political and economic implications of developments in algorithmic technology. We will explore key research questions interrogating the relations between algorithmic technologies and labor, lived temporalities, ecological transition, liberal arts education, gender, race and class power, critical theory, health and creative work. We feel the interconnectedness of issues related to technology in our current moment calls for multidisciplinary critical approaches and collective research, and this working group aims at providing a space for a collective approach of technology as a complex and multilayered socio-historical phenomenon. 

Our activities are open to members of the Concordia community, as well as from other universities and the broader Montreal community interested in the societal impacts of algorithmic technologies.

Organizer

Jonathan Martineau, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University

Coordinator

Martin Deron, PhD Candidate, INDI program, Concordia University

1. How are algorithmic technologies transforming labor and leisure?
2. What are the impacts of AI on Liberal Arts education?
3. How can critical theoretical perspectives help us understand the current development of algorithmic technologies and AI?
4. How does AI and algorithmic technology participate in or reconfigure systems of power in society?

Jonathan Martineau
Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University

Jarrett Carty
Full Professor, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University

Ariela Freedman
Full Professor, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University

Ivana Djordjevic
Associate Professor, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University

Fenwick McKelvey
Associate Professor, Department of Communications Studies, Concordia University

Beverley Best
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

Martin Danyluk
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University

Jennifer Garard
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University

Mathieu Lajante
Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University

Denise Celentano
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal

Myriam Lavoie-Moore
Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Université Saint-Paul, Ottawa

Vijay Kolinjivadi
Assistant Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University

Ana Brandusescu
PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, McGill University

Rabih Jamil
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal