Data feminism
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Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind?(...)
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March 2020
Data feminism
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Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In ''Data feminism,'' Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever ''speak for themselves.'' ''Data feminism'' offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But ''Data feminism'' is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.
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Nous sommes en 1763. L'un des maîtres de la correspondance s'adresse ici à monsieur de Sartine, son vieil ami, alors directeur de la Librairie. Et c'est un véritable plaidoyer pour la défense du Libraire-Éditeur. Il s'interroge d'abord sur le lien entre le commerce et la littérature et décrit avec soin, mais sans la condamner, la transformation de la valeur littéraire en(...)
January 2015
Lettre historique & politique adressée à un magistrat sur le commerce de la librairie
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Nous sommes en 1763. L'un des maîtres de la correspondance s'adresse ici à monsieur de Sartine, son vieil ami, alors directeur de la Librairie. Et c'est un véritable plaidoyer pour la défense du Libraire-Éditeur. Il s'interroge d'abord sur le lien entre le commerce et la littérature et décrit avec soin, mais sans la condamner, la transformation de la valeur littéraire en valeur mercantile. Ce faisant, il lie le sort de la littérature à celui de l'édition. Il plaide en faveur d'un fonds de librairie, celui qui s'écoule lentement, en équilibre avec les ventes plus rapides. Au fil d'une véritable enquête, il démontre par là même au lecteur contemporain que les problèmes qui se posent aujourd'hui au libraire ou à l'éditeur sont loin d'être récents, bien qu'ils se posent aujourd’hui plus que jamais.
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The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new challenges and possibilities. This anthology considers art at the center of network theory, from the 1960s to the present
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The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new challenges and possibilities. This anthology considers art at the center of network theory, from the 1960s to the present
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Graphesis provides a descriptive critical language for the analysis of graphical knowledge. In an interdisciplinary study fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Drucker outlines the principles by which visual formats organize meaningful content. Among the most significant of these formats is the graphical user interface (GUI)—the dominant(...)
Graphesis: visual forms of knowledge production
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Graphesis provides a descriptive critical language for the analysis of graphical knowledge. In an interdisciplinary study fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Drucker outlines the principles by which visual formats organize meaningful content. Among the most significant of these formats is the graphical user interface (GUI)—the dominant feature of the screens of nearly all consumer electronic devices. Because so much of our personal and professional lives is mediated through visual interfaces, it is important to start thinking critically about how they shape knowledge, our behavior, and even our identity.
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Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices across the digital age.
Digital shift: the cultural logic of punctuation
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Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices across the digital age.
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Depuis le développement de l’imprimerie, la civilisation occidentale vivait dans la culture du livre comme les poissons vivent dans l’eau, c’est-à-dire sans le savoir. Elle avait à ce point imprégné nos façons de sentir et de penser que nous avions fini par la confondre avec la nature humaine. Les technologies numériques nous ont brutalement confrontés au fait qu’il(...)
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Du livre et des écrans : plaidoyer pour une indispensable complémentarité
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Depuis le développement de l’imprimerie, la civilisation occidentale vivait dans la culture du livre comme les poissons vivent dans l’eau, c’est-à-dire sans le savoir. Elle avait à ce point imprégné nos façons de sentir et de penser que nous avions fini par la confondre avec la nature humaine. Les technologies numériques nous ont brutalement confrontés au fait qu’il existe d’autres relations possibles à l’identité, au temps, aux autres, à l’espace et aux apprentissages. Et du coup, nous ne pouvons plus penser l’homme, la culture, l’enseignement et l’éducation de la même façon.
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Loin de céder au catastrophisme ambiant, cet ouvrage propose quelques clés pour faire face à l'incertitude, pour apprendre à naviguer selon les nouvelles lois du monde numérique et à en relever les défis.
La menace fantôme: les industries culturelles face au numérique
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Loin de céder au catastrophisme ambiant, cet ouvrage propose quelques clés pour faire face à l'incertitude, pour apprendre à naviguer selon les nouvelles lois du monde numérique et à en relever les défis.
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Si le numérique est désormais ubiquitaire, quels sont les angles morts de ce regard dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part ? C'est à cette question qu'essaient de répondre les 145 entrées et la vingtaine de contributeur·trices de ce glossaire. On y trouvera des expressions-clés, familières ou inattendues, des réflexions originales et des synthèses(...)
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January 2023
Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire: Un glossaire critique et amoureux
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Si le numérique est désormais ubiquitaire, quels sont les angles morts de ce regard dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part ? C'est à cette question qu'essaient de répondre les 145 entrées et la vingtaine de contributeur·trices de ce glossaire. On y trouvera des expressions-clés, familières ou inattendues, des réflexions originales et des synthèses pédagogiques sur les profondes ambivalences dont ces angles morts sont le lieu. Ces zones d'ombre marquent en effet à la fois des limites et des lacunes des meilleurs efforts de programmation, condamnant certaines réalités à rester exclues de ce qui (se) compte dans notre monde numérisé. C'est pour nous permettre de mieux naviguer parmi ces ambivalences que cet ouvrage propose quelques éléments d'un vocabulaire commun du numérique ubiquitaire. Il se veut critique, parce que les formes prises par les exploitations actuelles du numérique sont souvent inquiétantes et demandent à être restructurées. Il se dit amoureux pour renouer avec une veine d'espoirs et d'émerveillements devant les potentiels d'émancipation et d'intelligence collectives dont reste porteuse la computation.
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural(...)
The eye of the master: A social history of artificial intelligence
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. ''The eye of the master'' argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's ''calculating engines'' of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or ''sentient'', as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. ''The eye of the master'' urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the ''mystery'' of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.
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Digital keywords
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection 'Digital Keywords' gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history,(...)
Digital keywords
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection 'Digital Keywords' gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. 'Digital Keywords' examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.
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