Category: Social Media & Networks
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INTELLIGENT ARTIFICE: Announcing a New Blog Series on Thinking Wisely and Well With, Through, About, Around, and Despite AI

By HASTAC CoFounder and CoDirector, Cathy N. Davidson* Having posted two blogs on HASTAC about AI, I’ve decided to write an (ir)regular series of posts on this topic, entitled “Intelligent Artifice: Thinking Wisely and Well With, Through, About, Around, and Despite AI.” Neither an AI booster nor an AI hater, I think we need to…
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AI and the end of empathy
NHK recently did an amazing closer look on AI, that will only be available for the next few weeks, titled “Closer Than Friends or Family? — Turning to AI for Companionship” Described as the following: Today’s Close-Up The struggles of everyday life are driving more and more people to use AI chatbots to fill the…
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Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2025-2026 BKC Fellowship
Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2025-2026 BKC Fellowship
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Review: Data Feminism
This volume by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein sets out to join the feminist belief in equality of the sexes with the practicality of activist work by laying out a way of working with data informed by the traditions and legacies of feminist activism and critical thought.
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Launching our new blog posts series “Playing with AI.”
You might have noticed our new banner image on our HASTAC website. It looks great, and it was created by HASTAC Co-Director Parisa Setayesh, using AI. When she told me she had tried a few things with AI to develop a new illustration for our HASTAC Scholars Digital Fridays, I was very curious to see…
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Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2024-2025 BKC Fellowship
Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2024-2025 BKC Fellowship
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Equitable Inequity in Design Justice: A Review of Sasha Costanza-Chock’s “Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation?”

In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Building the Worlds We Need, Sasha Costanza-Chock explores how current universalist design processes and principles are based on principles of exclusion, connects design to issues of collective liberation of marginalized communities and ecological conservation, and discusses how design may be used to advance those issues and dismantle structural inequality. …
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HASTAC and the Problem of Social Networks

Note: This blog post represents the beginning of an important conversation we intended to have at the HASTAC 2020 conference, as it is central to HASTAC’s concept of hindsight, foresight, and insight in considering ourselves as a network. Although that conference has unfortunately been canceled, we still hope to have this discussion. We welcome comments…
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Screen-Free Computers
I am using the customary screen with keyboard as I write this on my laptop, but I am arguing for a different kind of computer technology than we have now. That is the paradigm I am calling the screen-light “Intranet of Things” for an Ecological Age, as opposed to the screen-heavy and commercial…
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Who Asks Computer Programming Questions Online?

To distract myself from finals I took some public data about computer programming and it’s most popular forum and modified a web application so that you can look at user demographics and their question and answer forum habits: https://magic-passive.glitch.me/ In May, Stack OverFlow released their 2019 Developer survey to the public. Stack OverFlow is a question and…