interdisciplinary voices in critical computing
On January 29th and 30th 2024, a small but international group of scholars, civil society representatives, and practitioners came together at the Berlin Social Science Center to discuss the controversies, imaginaries, developments, and policy solutions surrounding AI under the name “Shifting AI Controversies – Prompts, […]
When thinking of computer science – what images pop into one’s head and what can those images tell us about the discipline as well as interconnected societal expectations and norms? In this short post we report on our research into gendered codings of computer science. […]
I have recently visited my first academic conference – the closing event of a project titled “Shaping AI” – and on the train journey back, after two days of presentations, soaking up knowledge, attempts at networking, and questions-turning-monologues, I left with one question: “Can this […]
November 9 & 10, 2023 09:00–12:30 BST / 10:00–13:30 CET / 04:00–07:30 ET / 20:00–23:30 AEDT Hybrid workshop (online + at Goldsmiths, London, UK) This workshop examines potential conceptual and practical correlations between Bayesian approaches, in statistics, data science, mathematics and other fields, and feminist […]
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) as a design perspective towards explainable AI can benefit from feminist perspectives. This post explores some dimensions of feminist approaches to explainability and human-centred explainable AI.
Critical Tools for Machine Learning or CritML is a project that brings together critical intersectional feminist theory and machine learning systems design. The goal of the project is to provide ways to work with critical theoretical concepts that are rooted in intersectional feminist, anti-racist, post/de-colonial […]
The workshop series on “Methods, Theories, and Taking Action through Gender and Feminisms in Human Computer Interaction” was documented in a booklet.
In 2022 an increasing number of digital businesses are building their business models on data collection, its usage, and further processing. Data and especially so-called big data holds the potential for a lot of innovation and empowers the advancement of all-day-technologies, knowledge engineering and the […]
Technical research and development are embedded in social contexts, afforded by stakeholders, their goals and interests, values and assumptions, and the social and professional structures they are part of. The choice of research topics and many development decisions start from rather general, standard assumptions about […]
INTRODUCTION Taking as its starting point a family archive of 16mm colour material recorded in 1950’s Congo, We called her cyborg aunt is an ongoing artistic research project into the rhetorics and epistemic frameworks surrounding the “use” of technology, underlining the continuity of hierarchies and […]