Tag: book review
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CBR: The Dangerous Art of Text Mining Chapter 2: From Fantasy to Engagement: Channeling the Potential of ‘Hybrid’ Teams.
Jo Guldi. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 2: From Fantasy to Engagement: Channeling the Potential of ‘Hybrid’ Teams. Review by: Elizabeth Varkey. Introduction The second chapter of Jo Guldi’s work titled “From Fantasy to Engagement” begins by returning to the Chinese…
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CBR: The Connectivity Of Things. Chapter 3: An Archive of Networking
Sebastian Giessmann. The Connectivity of Things. Network Cultures since 1832. The MIT Press. 2024 Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 3: An Archive of Networking Review by: Nazua Idris, PhD Candidate in Literary Studies, Washington State University “An Archive of Networking,” the third chapter of Sebastian Giessmann’s The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832, focuses on situating…
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CBR: The Connectivity Of Things. Chapter 1: Getting Caught Up
Sebastian Giessmann. The Connectivity of Things. Network Cultures since 1832. The MIT Press. 2024 Chapter Reviewed: Introduction: Getting Caught Up Review by: Nazua Idris, PhD Candidate in Literary Studies, Washington State University “Getting Caught Up” is the introductory chapter of Sebastian Giessmann’s The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832. This chapter sets the tone of…
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CBR: The Dangerous Art of Text Mining Chapter 12: Attacks on Environmentalists in Congress
Jo Guldi. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 12: Attacks on Environmentalists in Congress Review by: Sadahisa Watanabe Chapter 12, titled “Attacks on Environmentalists in Congress,” presents a case study that demonstrates both the potential and limitations of data-driven analysis in historical…
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CBR: The Dangerous Art of Text Mining Chapter 7: Of Memory
Jo Guldi. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 7: Of Memory Review by: Rimi Nandy, PhD. In Chapter 7, titled Of Memory, Jo Guldi discusses the relationship between data and the broader field of Memory Studies. Through various case studies, the chapter…
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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 “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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Review: Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” | Chapter 4: Classification
In the introductory pages of The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Kate Crawford describes artificial intelligence as a political “registry of power” (p. 8) that is simultaneously symbolic and material in nature. Stemming from the fifteenth-century term for describing an official account, “registry” implies an essence of formality…
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Review: Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” | Chapter 6: State
In its January 2024 AI forecast, AI think tank and Forbes contributor Cognitive World declared that, according to Google Trends, “even with all of the hype that AI has gotten in the past decade or so,” internet searches around the topic have “positively exploded in the search interest in the past twelve months” (Schmelzer 2024).…