Category: Social Sciences

  • 2024 Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, authors of Data Feminism (2020)

    On May 20, 2024, HASTAC Scholars Abby Cole, Stella Fritzell, Hamida Khatri, and Parisa Setayesh met with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein to discuss their 2020 book, Data Feminism, which was also one of the subjects of the 2024 HASTAC Scholars collaborative book review project. The following is a corrected transcript of their conversation. Abby […]

  • HASTAC Scholars Spotlight: Rebecca Stuch

    PhD student in Innovation in Global DevelopmentSchool for the Future Innovation in SocietyArizona State University Dissertation Research: Conceptualizing National Identity through Digital Storytelling with Moldovan youth. Why did you apply to HASTAC? I applied to HASTAC Scholars to participate in a community that supports interdisciplinary studies and the transformation of higher education as a way […]

  • Playing with AI – Creating images of Africa with Dall-E: Unsettling hegemonic geographical narratives

    Around me, many discussions about AI and the classroom have been focused on the use of ChatGPT by students when writing their essays. I think I have graded a few final papers created through AI. I am saying I think because I don’t have a way to prove it yet, but every time, something felt […]

  • 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.

  • Dialogues | The Community and the Smart City

    a conversation between Coline Chevrin and Parisa Setayesh Welcome to Dialogues, a new initiative within the HASTAC Scholars program designed to cultivate vibrant dialogue, foster meaningful interaction, and promote the cross-fertilization of ideas among our young scholars. These Dialogues are a way of recording  the exchanges that happen when scholars from different/or similar disciplines discuss […]

  • 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 […]

  • Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2024-2025 BKC Fellowship

    Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2024-2025 BKC Fellowship

  • A place for innovation? Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Justice Review

    Design Justice. Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need Sasha Constanza-Chock   Chapter 4 Review Ciudá Lágui – Xul Solar (1939) Where does innovation take place? This may seem like a very simple question, that could be quickly answered. In a traditional perspective, and according to well established vision of a linear mode of innovation, research […]

  • Modularity and Meaning

    Modularity is the second design principle for an Ecological Age.  With separate connected devices for separate functions, like a pen for writing, a watch for monitoring, and even clothing for communication, screen-free technology is automatically modular.  Decentralized functions are easier to understand, but harder to standardize.  They need different knowledge and materials.     Different information, […]

  • Write Your Way Out

    Write Your Way Out

    Typically, journaling is thought of in two ways: old people scrapbooking or teen girls doodling hearts in a diary. It is rare that the word “journaling” is associated with someone improving their mental health and assisting with past trauma and mental illness, but that is becoming more and more common every day. As mental health […]