is everybody still with us? you guys awake? it s my pleasure to introduce our final panel before our keynote, justice inclusion, imagine and building alternative platforms. and so to introduce our guests, i would turn it right over to dr. lori lopez and we ll start the panel with that. thank you. all right. so, for our panel today, we have four wonderful speakers and i m going to start by introducing them. so here we have margene christian, professor of communication studies at northwestern university, he recently earned tenure there so will very soon have the title of associate professor. tanya sutherland is assistant professor of archival studies and computer sciences at the university of hawaii. new title. we ll clap. applause anyway. sarah j. jackson at northeastern university and in july she ll be starting a new position as president of communication at the university of pennsylvania s ananberg school of communication and matthew bui is the fellow at the university of
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyA few years ago, my building replaced all of its elevators. I live in lower Manhattan, and the three cars that served our 17-story, full-city-block building were not moving people along fast enough. The new elevators were supposed to solve this, using algorithms. The installation was slow, spread out over the early pandemic, but eventually it was completed (in 2021, I think; pandemic time all runs together). And the elevators are noticea