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In this thread, I'm tweeting from @CovUni_CPC's Annual Conference on the theme of 'Technology Justice: The Theories and Practices of Freedom'. My first in-person conference since 2019.On Internet Archive
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Our virtual bookstand for the conference is made up of open-access publications from @RadicalOA members and is available throughout the entire conference at radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/cpc-conference-bookstand/. A curated selection by me, @Rebekka_Kie, and @Openreflections.Permalink On Internet Archive
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A fascinating and provocative series of talks from the Sonic Street Technologies research group looking at the use of sound technologies in community public settings particularly by Black communities in Lewisham and non-Hindu communities in Hyderabad.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Automated transcription rendering 'Foucauldian' as 'fuccodian'. A technology conference showing the limits of technology.Permalink On Internet Archive
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I was on the stage for the last panel as I was presenting but I became transfixed by the automated transcription which was in my eyeline on the huge screen. So much so that I was almost hearing the kind of word salad that appeared on the transcription. Very strange.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Starting the afternoon with a live performance from @dmstfctn called GODMODE. I understand it's somehow related to AI and algorithmic culture.Permalink On Internet Archive
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A virtual simulation of AI training via performance and lecture. Focus on the current mechanised AI of labour displacement rather than imagined sci-fi AI.Permalink On Internet Archive
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GOD MODE (ep. 1) is based on the idea of virtual supermarkets to train AI for cashier-less stores. We see an AI suffering through endless training via the warped non-temporality of computing.Permalink On Internet Archive
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More information on DMSTFCTN's website: dmstfctn.net/related-matters/god-mode-ep-1/Permalink On Internet Archive
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Reference to Rebecca Uliasz's article 'Seeing like an algorithm' which discusses how an algorithm 'sees' the world and performs cognition in a fundamentally different and mechanised way than human cognition. doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01067-yPermalink On Internet Archive
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Next up, the Postdigital Intimacies research group is presenting a tarot session using the oracle from Transfeminist Technologies transfeministech.codingrights.org/Permalink On Internet Archive
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Esther Stanford-Xosei now discussing what role the digital plays in African reparations policy and development. Specialised repositories provide an aspect of truth-telling and gathering evidence on the contemporary impact of slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The automated transcription is really struggling with the African Indigenous cultural terms that Esther is drawing on thus demonstrating her point about technology not being built for African Indigenous knowledge systems.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Day two of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures Annual Conference on the theme of Technology Justice. Lots of great speakers and panelists today (because I got my paper out of the way yesterday).Permalink On Internet Archive
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We're starting today with a panel on social media, inclusion, and identity with discussions on digital inclusion and (dis)ability in South Africa, interactions between humans and Intelligent Personal Assistants, and techno-utopianism and representation bias in Wikipedia.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Lorenzo Dalvit: The social inequalities of South Africa are reproduced online. In terms of disability, this reproduces tragedy narratives, hero narratives, and other discriminatory tropes. But the internet also brings opportunities around giving voice to the previously voiceless.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Dalvit discusses the harmful trope of the 'super-crip': someone who 'makes up for' their disability by working harder to prove themselves. This is often used as a positive narrative but acts like a disability tax.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Especially in South Africa, the intersection of disability with other identities (e.g. queerness, Blackness) leaves a relatively small digital footprint. Relatively few individuals in this intersectional category compared to South African influencers.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Now we have Maria Tsilogianni on interactions between humans and Intelligent Personal Assistants like Alexa. Human-computer interact is often based on a specific type of 'intelligence': interactions must be algorithmically centred on market interactions.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Zachary McDowell (@zachmcdowell) is talking about Wikipedia and representation bias. His book on this co-authored with Matthew Vetter is available open-access at doi.org/10.4324/9781003094081.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Wikipedia is the largest repository of information on Earth and is the only top website run by a non-profit organisation. But it has systemic representation biases around gender, race, and geography with a Eurocentric Enlightenment model of what knowledge is.Permalink On Internet Archive
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If Wikipedia is 'free knowledge', whose knowledge is that and who produces it in a Foucauldian sense?Permalink On Internet Archive
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Dozens of studies attest that Wikipedia is as reliable as Encyclopedia Britannica. When academics say 'Don't cite Wikipedia' what they mean is 'Don't cite a tertiary source'.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Wikipedia has a techno-utopian ideology where simply opening the door is the way to inequality. But open doors are not inviting to everyone. It only takes one bad experience with an editor to put someone off this 'open' community.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Systemic biases are pervasive on Wikipedia because of the need for secondary sources: there are simply fewer sources for some things e.g. fewer biographies of women than of men. And who decides what appears on Wikipedia and doesn't? A community of mostly white cis-hetero men.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Wikipedia's status as the largest open educational resource in the world and its systemic biases in terms of representation impacts education equity in unfathomable ways. It harnesses traditional epistemological structures which the reader is forced to experience and to learn.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Ending on a high note, Wikipedia's greatest potential is change. It remains the Last Best Place on the Internet despite its biases and needs a community more open and welcoming to people from a range of identities.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Zach's slides on Wikipedia and representation bias are available at bit.ly/wikicpc2022Permalink On Internet Archive
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"all organizing is science fiction, we are dreaming new worlds every time we think about the changes we want to make in the world" - Walida Imarisha, Octavia's Brood (2015)Permalink On Internet Archive
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Provocative audience question in this session about the trendy 'scruffy academic' thing not being available equally to all: it's very much a cis white man identity that it not necessarily open for others to perform.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Dr. Nicole Basaraba is talking about transmedia narratives for social justice. Transmedia is a story told across different media e.g. the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Homestuck, Pokémon. Can we apply transmedia principles to non-fiction?Permalink On Internet Archive
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For applications of transmedia to cultural heritage, see for example the National Famine Way (nationalfamineway.ie), an interactive exploration of the forced immigration scheme in Ireland.Permalink On Internet Archive