Frank Onuh
Frank Onuh is a PhD candidate in the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) Program at the University of Lethbridge, whose research interest cuts across information and media studies, digital (studies) humanities and artificial intelligence (AI Ethics). Frank’s doctoral research examines the intersection of information literacy, postcolonial studies, and digital technologies with a focus on decolonizing information verification practices in Africa. Currently, Fact-checkers in African strongly rely on verification models/principles enforced by the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) through GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft). Reclaiming the autochthonous information verification practices among diverse African communities is important for developing more inclusive and culturally-sensitive artificial intelligence systems for automated fact-checking (which is gaining momentum on the continent). Thus, incorporating the epistemological frameworks of these communities can help create AI systems that more accurately capture and reflect their realities. Frank was responsible for the design and implementation of this website.
Jodi Newman
Jodi Newman is a PhD Student in the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) Program at the University of Lethbridge, working under the supervision of Dr. Susan Dieleman. She is looking at the epistemic, social and political consequences of online manifestations of dehumanization. She is interested in how the rhetorical and visual practices of dehumanization may motivate or sustain epistemic injustices and social inequalities. She believes it is important to recognize and understand the impacts of the manifestation of dehumanization within our online social environments and the way this may be contributing to the deterioration of social and political trust, preventing or discouraging participation in the social exchange of knowledge, disrupting social cohesion, and contributing to political polarization.
Connor Leflar
Connor is an MA Student in the Philosophy Program at the University of Lethbridge, working under the supervision of Dr. Susan Dieleman. His research focuses on American Transcendentalism and its implications for, and application to, contemporary ethical discourse and theory. He will be working with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, but also the works and thoughts of other members of the Transcendental movement, with particular attention being paid to Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller. The goal of his research is to develop, or advocate for the possibility of, a coherent ethical theory that can be extracted from the works of these authors. He believes that the benefits of this research will be twofold. Firstly, this project will advocate for a reading of these authors, and the school of thought more broadly, as containing the fundamental theories and arguments necessary for an ethical framework. Secondly, the ethical framework that exists implicitly within American Transcendentalism will allow for a novel perspective and approach to the contemporary issues of ethics and will offer new insights into the means by which these issues can be addressed both at the individual and the societal levels.
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