{"id":279,"date":"2020-09-06T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2020-09-06T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:46:12","slug":"aaron-mckain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/participants\/aaron-mckain\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron McKain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron McKain<\/h3>\n

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Director of the School of English and Communication Arts; Associate Professor of Digital Media<\/p>\n

North Central University \/ Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy<\/p>\n

Description of Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a Director — of the arts-collective the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy and of the School of English and Communication Arts at North Central University — I see my role as assembling cross-disciplinary (and cross-cultural) teams of artists and scholars to use aesthetics as a mode of community education and civic engagement.<\/p>\n

As a scholar (and patient) my own research lives in three — increasingly interconnected — fields: Digital ethics, public health, and law.<\/p>\n

My public health research — on contagion, post-COVID humanity, and scientific debates over environmental illness — lives on (in exhibition form) at the Minneapolis-based arts collective the instituteforaetheticadvocacy.com, and was recently featured in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and the IAA\u2019s globally-curated exhibition Contaminated.<\/p>\n

My digital ethics research focuses primarily on politically viable (and programmable) solutions to digital ethics legislation and reform. It resides with \u2013 and is co-produced by — the student-run think tank the institutefordigitalhumanity.com. The IDH\u2019s current research and advocacy focuses on algorithmic discrimination and the future of digital policing in Minneapolis, where they are working with the Anti-Defamation League and Indiana University on policy papers and civic education materials for the Twin Cities\u2019 diverse post-George Floyd communities.<\/p>\n

Socials:<\/strong><\/p>\n

www.instagram.com\/institute.aesthetic.advocacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instituteforaestheticadvocacy.com<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.aaronmckain.com<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/institutefordigitalhumanity.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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