Digital Humanities Archives - Public Books

Are Spotify’s Vibes the End of Segregated Listening? (That’s Not What the Data Says.)

Imani Radney — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:00:41 +0000

What kind of world does Spotify—through its algorithmic sorting of millions of users’ desires, through our aggregated listening—produce for us to hear?

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Audiobooks: Every Minute Counts

Ruby Ray Daily — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:00:17 +0000

People who use audiobooks are expanding what reading is and can be. But they are also incentivizing publishers to change, in unexpected ways.

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Where Is All the Book Data?

Ruby Ray Daily — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:00:46 +0000

Industry is already using data to remake culture. To reverse the tide—to make culture more equitable—we need to decode that data for ourselves.

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Losing Discoveries—So Others Can Find Them

Ruby Ray Daily — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:00:34 +0000

We talk of “making discoveries” as if forming them out of clay. Yet, for Samuel Johnson, discovery is an action rather than an object.

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Humanities: Let the Hypothesis Testing Begin

Imani Radney — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:00:13 +0000

The humanities have a replication crisis of monumental proportions: so many theories have never been adequately tested or validated.

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How Words Lead to Justice

Isabelle Caraluzzi — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:00:28 +0000

What words politicians say matters. But which words they use is often the result not of individual choices, but of collective action over years.

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Can Algorithmic Bias Teach Us about Race?

Isabelle Caraluzzi — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:00:42 +0000

Machines learned racism from humans. Perhaps humans can now learn about that racism from the very machines they taught.

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Building a Postcolonial Knowledge Commons

Isabelle Caraluzzi — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:00:41 +0000

In responding to COVID, how should research libraries use the opportunity to tackle the ongoing crisis of postcoloniality?

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The Indifference Engine

Imani Radney — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:00:16 +0000

Nobody knows what will be useful in the future. And this is why we so often find humanistic activities in the seeds and roots of STEM.

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Like Sands through the Hourglass

Isabelle Caraluzzi — Tue, 25 May 2021 15:00:18 +0000

What will our children remember of this time, when their play and freedom are confined—or freed—by the digital?

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