BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251007T071458EDT-0184n185Ed@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251007T111458Z DESCRIPTION:Dr. Cait McKinney will discuss new research on AIDS activist in terventions with early internet censorship. The talk is entitled\, Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism meets Online Content Regulation.\n \n During the 1990s\, cultural understandings of HIV were inseparable from attempts to define the place of sexuality online\, and regulate “appropriate” inter net use. This talk documents how HIV/AIDS activists responded to the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA)\, a sweeping set of internet regulations in the U.S. that threatened to marginalize sexual expression online\, incl uding explicit information about HIV transmission.\n \n Dr. Cait McKinney is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser Uni versity. She was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Co mmunication Studies at California State University\, Northridge. Formerly SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and Media@ɬ﷬ Postdoctoral Fellow at ɬ﷬\, Mon tréal. She researches how queer and feminist social movements use new digi tal technologies to create and circulate information. She holds a PhD in C ommunication and Culture from York University\, and has taught in communic ation studies\, media and information studies\, and sexuality studies. Her research is interested in how queer and feminist social movements use dig ital technologies to build alternative information infrastructures. She fo cuses on how these movements struggle to provide vital access to informati on using new digital tools\, within conditions where that access is often precarious. For example\, she has published on digitization strategies at queer community archives \, lesbian-feminist newsletter networks\, and com munity internet infrastructures built by AIDS activists.\n \n This event is part of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technolo gies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublish ingandtechnology.com). This series was made possible thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, the Institute for Gen der\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies of ɬ﷬\, MILA\, the Dean of Arts Development Fund of ɬ﷬\, Media @ɬ﷬\, ɬ﷬'s Department of Histo ry and Classical Studies\, the William Dawson Fund\, RéQEF\, the Moving Im age Research Laboratory\, Element AI\, and L'Euguélionne: Montreal's Femin ist Bookstore.\n \n There is no fee required to attend this event. Notes on accessibility will be announced closer to the event.\n DTSTART:20191114T230000Z DTEND:20191115T003000Z LOCATION:Room 260\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Cait McKinney on Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Online Content Regulation URL:/igsf/channels/event/cait-mckinney-crisis-infrastr uctures-aids-activism-meets-online-content-regulation-296369 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR