Sarah Appedu

M.S. LIS student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Aspiring anti-racist, anti-oppressive educator. Bad at Twitter. She/hers. 🏳️‍🌈

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

@lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary @dev7saxena

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Join us Tues, July 27 at 3:00 CT for the final iteration of the AI Infodemic Early Career Researcher Speaker Series! Our concluding talk is “Child-Welfare System: The Politics, Power, and Economics of Algorithms” from Devansh Saxena, a current PhD student at Marquette University

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You can register for this talk on the program website: https://t.co/fDSLfzprBb

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

@lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Join us Tues, 7/20 at 3:00 CT for the AI Infodemic Early Career Researcher Speaker Series! Our next talk is “Injustice by Design: A Chicana/Latina feminist analysis of Amazon’s ACX labor platform” by Ruth L. Nuñez, a PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles

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You can register for this talk, as well as the other talks we will be hosting this summer, on the program website:
https://t.co/fDSLfzprBb

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

@lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Join us Tues, June 29 at 3:00 CT for the AI Infodemic Early Career Researcher Speaker Series! Our next talk will be “Is anybody in there? How perception and trust impact information interactions with AI systems” from Danica Pawlick-Potts, current PhD student at Western University

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Registration is required to receive the link to the Zoom event. You can register for this talk, as well as the other talks we will be hosting this summer, on the program website https://t.co/fDSLfzprBb

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

@lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Join us Tues, June 22 at 3:00 CT for the AI Infodemic Speaker Series! Our next talk is “’Who's the Conspiracy Theorist? Not I:’ Feedback Loops between Conspiracy Communities and Academia” from Yvonne M. Eadon, a current PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

You can register for this talk, as well as the other talks we will be hosting this summer, on the program website: https://t.co/fDSLfzprBb

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

@lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Join us June 15 at 3:00 CT for the AI Infodemic Early Career Researcher Speaker Series! Our first talk is “What Was Disinformation? Lessons from the 2020 Census” from William Clyde Partin, current PhD student at the Univ. of North Carolina and research analyst at Data & Society

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Registration is required to receive the link to the Zoom event. You can register for this talk, as well as the other talks we will be hosting this summer, on the program website https://t.co/fDSLfzprBb

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

@lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary

[Sarah Appedu @libraryoftaurus]

Please join us this summer for the AI Infodemic Early Career Researcher Speaker Series! We will feature several early career researchers from various universities. This speaker series builds on the themes discussed in the AI Infodemic reading group during the Spring semester.

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You can read the descriptions and register for each event on the program website: https://t.co/fDSLfzprBb

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But really, this was a great experience and I’m so grateful to @mhensle1 for her support. It’s been a heavy few days of thinking about liberation against the backdrop of colonial violence and its time for some much needed rest before getting right back to work.

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Just finished my first LEOX presentation....can I stop sweating now?? 😂