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Coding queer bias: An artist’s response to the lack of diversity in machine learning

Machine learning technology is known not only to reinforce but even deepen social bias, consequently fostering discrimination and oppressing diversity in multiple ways. Counterintuitively, in “Zizi – Queering the Dataset”, the artist Jake Elwes shows how machine learning can...
By on 12/04/20 Comments Off on Coding queer bias: An artist’s response to the lack of diversity in machine learning
Financial superpowers? Cryptocurrency and the next generation

Financial superpowers? Cryptocurrency and the next generation

Pigzbe, a digital piggy-bank has just appeared on the market, with one goal: introducing children to the world of cryptocurrency. Filippo Yacob, CEO of the company, claims that this device will give a new generation of children “financial superpowers”....
By Anastasia Pelini on 09/23/18 Comments Off on Financial superpowers? Cryptocurrency and the next generation
Squarespace and Interfacification: How Much Does Knowing How to Code Matter Anymore?

Squarespace and Interfacification: How Much Does Knowing How to Code Matter Anymore?

In an age of intuitive design and slick interfaces, users nowadays are rarely challenged to question or understand the mechanics underlying digital media. In the early days of computing, one would need basic technical computing skills in order to...
By Sal Hagen on 09/21/16 Comments Off on Squarespace and Interfacification: How Much Does Knowing How to Code Matter Anymore?
The Software is the Message

The Software is the Message

In a mini article of his, new media theorist Lev Manovich rephrased Marshall McLuhan’s most famous sentence by replacing the word ‘medium’ with the word ‘software’, saying that: “The software is the message”. For Manovich, software is an universal...
By Michael ten Pas on 09/10/14 1
Why questioning the code in Facebook and Twitter matters

Why questioning the code in Facebook and Twitter matters

The Internet has created more possibilities for the individual and civil society. Now they can engage in higher connectivity, collective action, and freedom of expression in what Robert Harris and Rebekah Heacock term as “the creation of social capital online.”(1)...
By Mahsa Alimardani on 09/08/14 3