AUTOMATED LITERACIES
A project exploring the literacies of everyday automation
Our Questions
What is digital literacy when machines are reading and writing us?
How is algorithmic culture changing what it is to be a ‘person’, a citizen, to have agency and rights?
How is automation re-shaping meaningful consent?
Is ‘data’ that people provide to automated platforms the price of access to the necessities of daily living?
How could we design and think about automation, literacies and democratic access differently?
CAPTCHA’s ‘capture’ our questions about the literacies of everyday automation as they verify our “humanness”, opening and closing gates to services, information and data vital to everyday life.
Learn moreRead more about our team and our projects, what we are reading and some of our writing and experiments-in-progress.
Contact us at: automated_literacies (at) sfu.ca
WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON
Online Forms
Why are government online forms so hard to use?
Consent as Feeling-with
Is automation re-shaping consent and trust in institutions, and in one another?
Applying for jobs online
Does e-recruitment make the hiring process more efficient? For whom?
Food Security
Are apps and websites deciding who can get access to food?
Blog
Find our last news and updates about the projects we are working on.
Promising but never perfect: Food justice, technology and access
Food Security: Hidden Realities
Is Technology Serving Up Food (In)Security?
The work of the Automated Literacies project takes place on the traditional territories of the (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. We strive to align the values, goals and methods of our project to Indigenous sovereignty and more just ways of living on these lands.