Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy is the theme for two issues of the Canadian Journal of Communication’s Policy Portal, edited by Professor Leslie Regan Shade of the Faculty of Information and Tamara Shepherd of the University of Calgary. The first issue, which has just been published, focuses on Intersectional Critiques of AI Governance and includes contributions from Faculty of Information PhD students and doctoral graduates.
It contains six articles critically interrogating the terrain of AI policy and the processes of AI governance from an intersectional lens. Together, the articles propose expansive questions to guide regulatory conversations around AI technologies with profound social and political significance.
- The introduction, written by Professors Shade and Shepherd, briefly reviews feminist scholarship in AI.
- Faculty of Information PhD candidate Jul Jeonghyun Parke weighs in with her article,“Regulating AI Intimacies: The Miseducation of South Korean AI Chatbot Iruda,” which looks at this South Korean AI app to extract lessons for Canadian AI policy.
- Karen Louise Smith, a Faculty of Information PhD graduate who is now as associate professor at Brock University, summarizes opportunities to apply an intersectional lens within the proposed Canadian AI legislation contained in Bill C-27 in her article,“Crafting an Intersectional Response to Bill C-27 for the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology”.
This AI issue and the second issue focusing on intersectional feminist approaches to digital policymaking, which will be published in June, mark the end of Shade’s stint as Policy Portal Editor at the CJC. “Leslie has been a formative leader in critical feminist communication studies in Canada for more than three decades, and it is fair to say that her contributions to CJC have helped define our place in the field,” writes Journal editor Stuart R. Poyntz in his opening editorial.
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