Sara Diamond
Dr. Sara Diamond, C.M., Order of Ontario, ICD.D, is President Emerita OCAD University, where she served as President from 2005 to 2020 and is a faculty member there. She continues funded research in data analytics and visualization, urban and cultural planning. and media histories. She is co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Eric Miller on iCity 2.0: Urban Data Science for Future Mobility” which aims to improve accessibility and mobility, in support of heightened economic productivity, quality of life and environmental sustainability in Ontario, by advancing the design of urban transportation systems and “complete communities”; and holds grants to research the application of generative design to complete community planning, another to develop visualization approaches to sustainable transit planning, and one to support research in tools for qualitative analysis with a focus on diversity and inclusion. She is co-chair of Toronto’s ArtWorxTO, Year of Public Art. She is an Expert Panelist with the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation and Associate Consultant and Thought Leader with Lord Cultural Services. Recognition includes a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Simon Fraser University, 2020; the 2020 Exceptional Women of Excellence, Women’s Economic Forum; two Media Pioneer awards: Inspiring 50: Advancement of Diversity in STEM and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for significant contributions to Canada.
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Industry interest in the success of media products has historically focused on quantitative metrics, such as audience numbers, retention, and earnings. However, producers, public funding agencies and investors are increasingly concerned with the qualitative impacts of the media products that they create and fund. Qualitative data collection and analysis tools extend beyond conventional domains such as marketing to fields such as ethnography and health studies. In addition, narrative, documentary, and interactive media are applied to encourage healthy behaviors. Despite opportunities to draw from these insights, media industries lack reception analysis tools and a consolidated database to allow comparative analysis. ContentRank addresses this opportunity.
Keywords: Screen Media, Cultural Data Analytics, Survey Data, Interactive Visualization, User
viability of any business. But technology adoption is not inherently good.
Technologies are neither good nor bad – and it is in their use that organizations determine their impact. A purposeful company, therefore, determines the desired outcomes of technology adoption before it makes the investment.
In this research paper, Dr. Sara Diamond and Dr. Cindy Gordon explore the relationship between technology and corporate purpose, specifically with regards to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The authors examine why it is so critical that corporate leaders consider the impact of these technologies on their organization as a whole before any decisions on adoption and deployment are made. To guide these processes, they make specific recommendations for board executives and leaders for the effective adoption of AI and ML.
New media public art encompasses telematic and networked performance works; net and web art; mobile art, locative art, and games; augmented and mixed reality works; data gathering and surveillance art; interactive sculptures; projections and interactive public screens; responsive light works; and art made with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, and biotechnology (CRISPR). Rather than provide a catalogue of new media public artworks, this chapter assimilates examples into curatorial contexts.
Industry interest in the success of media products has historically focused on quantitative metrics, such as audience numbers, retention, and earnings. However, producers, public funding agencies and investors are increasingly concerned with the qualitative impacts of the media products that they create and fund. Qualitative data collection and analysis tools extend beyond conventional domains such as marketing to fields such as ethnography and health studies. In addition, narrative, documentary, and interactive media are applied to encourage healthy behaviors. Despite opportunities to draw from these insights, media industries lack reception analysis tools and a consolidated database to allow comparative analysis. ContentRank addresses this opportunity.
Keywords: Screen Media, Cultural Data Analytics, Survey Data, Interactive Visualization, User
viability of any business. But technology adoption is not inherently good.
Technologies are neither good nor bad – and it is in their use that organizations determine their impact. A purposeful company, therefore, determines the desired outcomes of technology adoption before it makes the investment.
In this research paper, Dr. Sara Diamond and Dr. Cindy Gordon explore the relationship between technology and corporate purpose, specifically with regards to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The authors examine why it is so critical that corporate leaders consider the impact of these technologies on their organization as a whole before any decisions on adoption and deployment are made. To guide these processes, they make specific recommendations for board executives and leaders for the effective adoption of AI and ML.
New media public art encompasses telematic and networked performance works; net and web art; mobile art, locative art, and games; augmented and mixed reality works; data gathering and surveillance art; interactive sculptures; projections and interactive public screens; responsive light works; and art made with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, and biotechnology (CRISPR). Rather than provide a catalogue of new media public artworks, this chapter assimilates examples into curatorial contexts.
Edited by Sarah Cook and Sara Diamond. Foreword by Kellogg Booth and Sidney Fels. Essays by Sandra Buckley; Steve Dietz; Jean Gagnon; N. Katherine Hayles; Eric Kluitenberg; Jeff Leiper, Allucquere Rosanne Stone. Afterword by Susan Kennard.
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