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Traversing Narratives through Digital Pathways
HASTAC Dialogue Daria: My project analyzes the structure of trials in the Spanish Inquisition in the seventeenth century. I study how legal narratives form through witness testimony, voluntary and coerced under torture. As inquisitors sought to build cases against alleged heretics, they used various legal and rhetorical skills to make individuals look like heretics based […]
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Join the Collective – The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Call for Participation The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both graduate student members and non-student members […]
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Review: The Atlas of AI
This volume sets out to explore how artificial intelligence is produced, winding its way through the various historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that inform and shape this process.
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Chapter Review of ‘Data Feminism’ by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. Chapter 4.
Chapter 4 of the book Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein is centered around the principle of rethinking binaries and hierarchies. They ground their understanding through an analysis of the gender binary in data collection which determines who gets counted when considering policymaking and resource allocation and who remains invisible. Using gender as […]
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Chapter Review of “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” by Kate Crawford | Chapter 3: Data.
Chapter 3 focuses on the pivotal role Data – which the author explains in the driving force of AI today – plays in AI systems. In this chapter, Crawford critiques the extraction, methods, and use of data in AI systems (mainly computer vision systems), highlighting the complexities and challenges associated with the widespread use of […]
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Collaborative Book Review of “Data Feminism” | Chapter 1: The Power Chapter
This is a review of Chapter 1 of “Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, 2020, this was done as a part of the Collaborative Book Review Project with a great group of HASTAC Scholars. To learn more about the project and see previous collaborative book review check out the collection here, and […]
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On Tools and Ploughshares: A Review of “Chapter 7: Power” in Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence”
Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. Preface: Approaching This Review “We are told to focus on the innovative nature of the method rather than on what is primary: the purpose of the thing itself” (Crawford, 2021, p. 214) Kate Crawford’s (2021) Atlas of […]
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Review: Introduction of The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford, The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 1, 327. ISBN 9780300209570, 9780300264630. Chapter reviewed: Introduction Reviewed by: Hannah Mendro, hsmendro@uw.edu In an increasingly technological world, and particularly with the advances in machine learning technology that have become so prevalent in the last […]