DRAFT Schedule (under revision)

1. System transformations in arts and media policy: reflections on Banff Summit 2019 (MaryElizabeth Luka, chair)
_MaryElizabeth Luka, University of Toronto (moderator)
_Lise Ann Johnson, Canada Council for the Arts (Digital Strategy Fund)
_Michelle van Beusekom, Executive Director, Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC)
_Kelly Wilhelm, Chief Strategy Officer, Canada Media Fund
_Ken Rogers, York University (TBC)

2. Canadian Culture and Connecting Canadians (MaryElizabeth Luka, chair)
_MaryElizabeth Luka, Jonathan MacKenzie, Claudia Sicondolfo: Archive Counter/Archive: Activating Principles of Respect in Archival Policy Development
_Robin Nelson: Digitizing Governance: The Evolution of Community Museum Policy in Ontario
_Véronique Guèvrement: Recognizing and supporting the specificity of “digital cultural goods and services” in the digital environment
_Jonathan Paquette: TBA
_M. Sharon Jeannotte: Digital Platforms and Analogue Policies: Governance issues in Canadian Cultural Policy
_Dana Cramer: Broadband between the lines: Alberta libraries and Alberta SuperNet

1. Platform Governance: Media Policy or Telecoms Regulation as Guide? (Dwayne Winseck, chair)
_Dwayne Winseck: Digital Platforms are Not Media Companies: Telecoms Regulation as a Guide to Platform Regulation
_David Nieborg: Platform governance and cultural production
_Cynthia Khoo: The Importance of Being Unintended: Platform Algorithms and Unforeseen Harm
_Jonathan Obar: The Governance of Social Media: Revisiting the Special Issue

2. Sharon McGowan workshop

1. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and digital platforms (Philip Savage, chair)
_Philip Savage: (TBA)
_Dr David Skinner: Living On-line: Platformization and the CBC
_Dr. Lizzie Jackson: TBA
_Daniel Bernhard: TBA
_Christopher Cwynar: Making Social Media 'Public': Using the History of Public Broadcasting to Conceptualize Public Social M

2. Platforms, power, populism
_Alex Dean Cybulski: Taking the NSA Open Source: A Political Economy Approach to the Ethics of Hacking and the Identity of Hackers
_Nick Dyer-Witheford: Platform Capitalism and Left Populism
_Andrey Miroshnichenko: The Question of Zuckerberg’s Guilt: Instrumental vs. Environmental Views of Media
_Zeinab Farokhi: ISLAMOPHOBIZATION OF A NATION: THE NEXUS BETWEEN NEWS CHANNELS AND TWITTER IN INDIA
_Tanner Mirrlees: Privatizing Hate Speech Governance on Social Media Platforms: Outsourcing, Downloading and Automating Hate Content Moderation

1. Platform, labour, and struggles for alternative platform models
_David Dubinski: From ‘cultural’ to ‘deliberative’ sovereignty: How an update of cultural policy from the analog era could help frame Canada’s policy response to the use of artificial intelligence on digital networks
_Derek Hrynyshyn: Algorithms, Platforms and the Public Interest: Responding to the Crisis in Canadian Communication Policy
_Daniel J. Paré: Free to express yourself outside of work? Workplace discipline in the age of social media
_Julie Yujie Chen: THE MIRAGE AND POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION IN CHINA’S PLATFORM ECONOMY
_Guy T. Hoskins: The Submissive Citizen in the Shadow of Platform Power: Between Rights Claims and Active Citizenship

2. Algorithmic governance
_Alex Mayhew: Social Selection of Algorithms
_Fenwick McKelvey and Robert Hunt: Algorithmic Regulation in the Era of Platform Governance
_Robert Blair Frost: The Assemblage Meets the System: Emerging Institutions of AI Governance and Regulation in Canada and China
_Karen Louise Smith: The open web as a platform: Is it shaping artificial intelligence in Canada?
_James Meese (TBA)

1. Platform, labour, and struggles for alternative platform models (con'd)

2. Roundtable on Algorithmic Literacy (Leslie Regan Shade, chair)
_Leslie Regan Shade
_Monica Henderson
_Jonathan Obar
_Fenwick McKelvey
_Karen Louise Smith

1. Surveillance in the city (Paula Gardner, chair)
_Paula Gardner: TBA
_Beth Coleman: TBA
_Janine Marchessault/Michael Darroch: TBA
_Natasha Tusikov: TBA
_Blayne Haggart: TBA
_Michael Darroch: Open Cities in a Border Region: Windsor-Detroit

2. Streaming platforms: Spotify, Twitch, and VUCAVU
_Andrew Braun: From Risk to Rhythm: Spotify and Chill
_Charlotte Panneton: Regulating Twitch.tv: Prefiguring the Policy Implications of Game-Oriented Live-Streaming
_Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte: VUCAVU.com: Artist-Run Distribution of Independent Canadian Film and Video in the Age of the Platform
_Kait Kribs: Our Band is a Bandcamp Band": Making Music and Earning a Living in the Platform Era
_Kirstyn seanor: Assessing the Design of Pornography Websites

1. Roundtable on Policy Participation (Tamara Shepherd, chair)
_Philippe Tousignant (CRTC)
_Gregory Taylor
_Sharon McGowan
_Fenwick McKelvey
_Tara Mazurk
_Sean Casey
_Laura Tribe

2. Broadcast and Digital Media (Ira Wagman, chair)
_Ira Wagman: Broadcast and Digital Media
_Sherry Yu: Canadian broadcasting and cultural diversity
_Lowell Gasoi: Open media?: vernacular advocacy in Canadian media policy
_Daniel Keyes: The Canadian Media Fund and Google-YouTube's channel Encore+: Cancon's Archival Salvation or Digital Waste Bin?
_Taeyoung Kim: Cultural politics of Can-Con in SVOD market: A case study of Netflix Canada
_Geneva Nam: DIGITAL STREAMING AND NEW MEDIA: THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN BROADCAST