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SUMMARY:Thinkpiece Panel II: Dwaipayan Banerjee\, Lily Hu\, Safiya Noble
DESCRIPTION:March 5\, 2021\, 12 pm EST\nThinkpiece Panel II\n\nModerator: Britt Paris (Rutgers School of Communications & Information)\n\nRegistration\nAn interdisciplinary conversation with three leading AI specialists \n \n\nDwaipayan Banerjee\, Associate Professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT. Cultural anthropologist\, sociologist\, and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College.\n\n“Decolonizing Computing: An Aesthetic and Demonic Energy”\nDwaipayan Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) at MIT. He earned his doctorate in cultural anthropology at NYU and has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College. He also holds an M. Phil and an MA in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. His research is guided by a central theme: how do various kinds of social inequity shape medical\, scientific and technological practices? In turn\, how do scientific and medical practice ease or sharpen such inequities? In doing so\, Banerjee’s ongoing research pushes science and technology studies into the global south. He develops postcolonial and subaltern orientations in the scholarship on science\, medicine and technology. \nOptional Reading: “The Aesthetics of Decolonization“ \n\n\n\nLily Hu\, Applied Mathematics and Philosophy\, Harvard; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society\n“What is ‘objective’ and what is ‘political’ about data and algorithms?”\nDebate about whether predictions issued by data-based algorithm systems come out of a process that is “objective” or “political” set forth a dichotomy between the empirical and the normative that is false. I will focus\, instead\, on how theoretical\, empirical\, and political considerations interact in the creation and use of such systems. \nLily Hu is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy at Harvard University. She works in philosophy of (social) science and political and social philosophy. Her current project is on causal inference methodology in the social sciences and focuses on how various statistical frameworks treat and measure the “causal effect” of social categories such as race\, and ultimately\, how such methods are seen to back normative claims about racial discrimination and inequalities broadly. Previously\, she has worked on topics in machine learning theory and algorithmic fairness. \nOptional Reading: “What is ‘Race’ in Algorithmic Discrimination on the Basis of Race?“ \n\nSafiya Noble\, Associate Professor of Information Studies and African American Studies at UCLA\n\n“New Paradigms of Justice: How Knowledge Curators can Respond to the Information Crisis”\nData discrimination is a real social problem\, exacerbated by the monopoly status and private interests of a small number of internet companies. This talk offers provocations for imagining and creating new paradigms of justice in the technology sector\, helmed by information professionals like librarians\, museum curators and knowledge managers. \nSafiya Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). Dr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. \nOptional Reading: “Searching for People and Communities“
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Artist Mimi Onuoha
DESCRIPTION:March 26\, 2021\, 12 pm EST\nA Conversation with Artist Mimi Onuoha\n\nModerator: Mindy Seu (Assistant Professor\, Art & Design)\n\nRegistration\n\n\nMimi Onuoha\, Visiting Arts Professor at NYU\n\nMimi Onuoha is a Nigerian-American artist creating work about a world made to fit the form of data. By foregrounding absence and removal\, her multimedia practice uses print\, code\, installation and video to make sense of the power dynamics that result in disenfranchised communities’ different relationships to systems that are digital\, cultural\, historical\, and ecological. Onuoha has spoken and exhibited internationally and has been in in residence at Studio XX (Canada)\, Data & Society Research Institute (USA)\, the Royal College of Art (UK)\, Eyebeam Center for Arts & Technology (USA)\, and Arthouse Foundation (Nigeria\, upcoming). She lives and works in Brooklyn. \nThis event\, and with it our inaugural series\, will culminate with a series of breakouts in anticipation of a white paper.
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