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| title: 2023 Lib/Lab Fellows Syllabus | ||
| title: 2024 Lib/Lab Fellows Syllabus | ||
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| Now in its eigth, the LibLab Fellows program is an experiment in library-based learning guided by a critical consideration of just what we mean by "the digital." Fellows engage theory and practice of digital scholarship through open lab hours and weekly discussion meetings during the fall semester and spring semester | ||
| Now in its tenth year, the LibLab Fellows program is an experiment in library-based learning guided by a critical consideration of just what we mean by "the digital." Fellows engage theory and practice of digital scholarship through open lab hours and weekly discussion meetings during the fall semester and spring semester | ||
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| ## Week 1 - September 14: Introductions and framing | ||
| ## Week 1 - September 11: Introductions, Framing & The Infrastructure of the Internet | ||
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| An introduction to the terrain. | ||
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| From the physical to the digital. What new information is gained? What is lost? | ||
| An introduction to the terrain + the internet and its modalities. This week, we introduce the fellowship and begin by looking at what do we mean when we say *internet*? What makes it different from other forms of information technology and where can we find it? The internet, the idea and its physical infrastructure, permeates every hour of our days. Understanding its history and the metaphors we use to give shape to it, become a daily endevor, so as to continue to have a critical eye towards it. | ||
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| Reflection: As we move from the physical to the digital. What new information is gained? What is lost? Is this even a helpful dynamic? | ||
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| Readings: | ||
| - [‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu'](https://www.nytimes.com/video/insider/100000004687429/farewell-etaoin-shrdlu.html) | ||
| - [Binding Media: Print-Digital Literature 1980s-2010s](https://elikaortega.net/projects/1_project/) | ||
| - [‘As We May Think by Vannevar Bush'](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/) | ||
| - When was this article written? What does the Memex anticipate? What are other concepts still applicable today? | ||
| - [Visions for the Future of the Internet](https://findingctrl.nesta.org.uk/) | ||
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| - [The Machine Stops by E.M. Foster](https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf) | ||
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| ## Week 2 - September 21: Do Artifacts Have Politics? + Text | ||
| ## Week 2 - September 18: Do Artifacts Have Politics? + Github | ||
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| What can things *do*? Considering the perspective of Science and Technology Studies. Are the technologies that we will study neutral? In other words, is the saying: “it depends how you use the tool that matters” universally true or is technology inherently biased? | ||
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| - [Winner, Langdon. "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" from *The Whale and the Reactor* (1986).](https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf) | ||
| - [Biss, Eula. "Time and Distance Overcome" from *Notes from No Man's Land* (2009).](https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/iowareview/article/16487/galley/124886/view/) | ||
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| - Letter press demo | ||
| ## Week 3 - September 28: Code + AI | ||
| - Introduction to Github + its history | ||
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| ## Week 3 - September 25: Github Pages + HTML/CSS/MARKDOWN | ||
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| This week we dive deeper into Github by utilizing a service that allows us to create static websites. | ||
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| What lies beneath the technologies we use everyday? Investigating the human and computer labor that fuels the web services we rely on. | ||
| ## Week 4 - October 2: AI | ||
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| - [Hui, Yuk. ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines](https://www.e-flux.com/journal/137/544816/chatgpt-or-the-eschatology-of-machines/) | ||
| <!-- - [Hui, Yuk. ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines](https://www.e-flux.com/journal/137/544816/chatgpt-or-the-eschatology-of-machines/) | ||
| - [Dzieza, Josh. AI Is a Lot of Work: As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-humans-technology-business-factory.html) | ||
| - [Moderator Mayhem](https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/) | ||
| - [Moderator Mayhem](https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/) --> | ||
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| ## Week 4 - October 5: Metadata / Data | ||
| ## Week 5 - October 16: Metadata / Data | ||
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| Can data be neutral? What are the ethical considerations of collecting and analyzing data? | ||
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| Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson write in the introduction for *"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron*, | ||
| <!-- Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson write in the introduction for *"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron*, | ||
| >"Data need to be imagined as data to exist and function as such, and the imagination of data entails an interpretive base." | ||
| What do you think when you hear the term "raw data"? | ||
| - [Gitelman,Lisa & Jackson, Virginia.Raw Data is an Oxymoron: Introduction ](https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9302.001.0001) | ||
| - [D'Ignazio,Catherine & Klein, Lauren. Data Feminism: Chapter 1 The Power Chater](https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11805.001.0001) | ||
| - [Data Feminism reading group](https://datafeminism.io/blog/book/data-feminism-reading-group/) | ||
| - [Data Feminism reading group](https://datafeminism.io/blog/book/data-feminism-reading-group/) --> | ||
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| - Guest speaker: Emily Higgs Kopin, Head of Digital Collections Strategy) | ||
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| ## Week 5 - October 12: Network + Internet | ||
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| Before we can go further into networked technologies, we ought to have a starting point - What do we mean when we say *internet*? What makes it different from other forms of information technology? | ||
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| - [Visions for the Future Internet](https://findingctrl.nesta.org.uk/) A collection of essays, short stories, poetry and art work reflecting on the question of *what is the internet* and its history. As you browse the site focus on one section (Timeline, Enter, Power, Shift, Delete, ALT, Escape) that most interests you. Come prepared to share your thoughts and opinions | ||
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| - [Abbate, Janet. Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3116559) | ||
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| - [Dye, Michaelanne & Nemer, David & Kumar, Neha & Bruckman, Amy. If it Rains, Ask Grandma to Disconnect the Nano: Maintenance & Care in Havana's StreetNet](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359289) | ||
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| - [Jackson, Steve. Rethinking Repair](https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/Jackson_RethinkingRepair(MITPress2014).pdf) | ||
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| - Doc-Humanity Revolution: What is the web. | ||
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| ## Week 6 - October 26: Search + Alogrithms | ||
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| How is information organized and how can we use those systems to find what we are looking for? | ||
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| - [Underwood, Ted. Theorizing Research Practices we Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2014.127.1.64?sid=primo) | ||
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| - [Algorithms of Oppression - 16 min video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuJ8yQf6dI) | ||
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| - [Postcard from the Volcano: On the Future of the Library Print Collections](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv16qjxqm.9) | ||
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| - Guest speaker: Dr. Stauffer | ||
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| ## Week 7 - November 2: Accessibility | ||
| ## Week 6 - October 23: Accessibility | ||
| Can we democratize knowledge? How can we make information more accessible for everyone? | ||
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| - [Clark, Jasmine. A coordinated effort: Cultural and policy requirements for digital accessibility](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691316.2021.1932659) | ||
| <!--- [Clark, Jasmine. A coordinated effort: Cultural and policy requirements for digital accessibility](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691316.2021.1932659) | ||
| - [Imersive Reader. Video. Watch first 10 minutes](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/educator-center/product-guides/immersive-reader/) | ||
| - HTML/CSS demo. Static vs Dynaic website | ||
| - Guest speakers: Jessica Brangiel, Electronic Resources Librarian & Jenn Moore, Course Content Accessibility Manager | ||
| - Guest speakers: Jessica Brangiel, Electronic Resources Librarian & Jenn Moore, Course Content Accessibility Manager --> | ||
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| ## Week 8 - November 9: Language of Visualization | ||
| ## Week 67 - October 30: Language of Visualization + Open refine | ||
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| [](https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3361) | ||
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| Can we move beyond pleasing images representing data to and understand that visualizations are a language in themselves? In other words, rather than just understanding visualizations as representations of data can we understand them as data? | ||
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| In this process, what do we gain access to and, oppositely, what is effaced or made invisible? | ||
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| - [Drucker, Johanna. “Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities.” *A New Companion to Digital Humanities*, edited by Susan Schreibman et al. (2016): 290–302.](https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/swarthmore/reader.action?docID=4093339&ppg=290) | ||
| <!-- - [Drucker, Johanna. “Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities.” *A New Companion to Digital Humanities*, edited by Susan Schreibman et al. (2016): 290–302.](https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/swarthmore/reader.action?docID=4093339&ppg=290) | ||
| - [1969 "Mother of All Demos"](https://youtu.be/B6rKUf9DWRI) | ||
| - [Yau, Nathan. Visualizing the Unertainty in Data](https://flowingdata.com/2018/01/08/visualizing-the-uncertainty-in-data/) | ||
| - *optional in class reading*[Osman, Jenna. from *Motion Studies*. PEN Poetry Series. November 25, 2015.](https://pen.org/from-motion-studies/) | ||
| - *optional in class reading*[Osman, Jenna. from *Motion Studies*. PEN Poetry Series. November 25, 2015.](https://pen.org/from-motion-studies/)--> | ||
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| - Guest speaker: James Truitt, Digital Archivist | ||
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| ## Week 9 - November 16: Maps | ||
| ## Week 8 - November 6: Maps | ||
| What are the politics of maps? How does the platform used to create and provide access to geographic information shape our understanding of space? | ||
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| - [How to Lie with Maps](https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/1e1odpu/alma991013533059704921) | ||
| - [How to Map Nothing](https://placesjournal.org/article/how-to-map-nothing/) | ||
| <!-- - [How to Lie with Maps](https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/1e1odpu/alma991013533059704921) | ||
| - [How to Map Nothing](https://placesjournal.org/article/how-to-map-nothing/)--> | ||
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| ## Week 10 - November 30: Surveillance and embodiment | ||
| Do we live in a survaillance culture? What are the privacy tradeoffs you make to use the tools you like? More importantly, do you know the liniage of survilance? | ||
| - [Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Introduction and Ch. 1](https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018837042204921) | ||
| - [Brunton, Finn & Nissenbaum, Helen. Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest. Chapter 3: Why Obfuscation is Necessary](https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018845263404921) | ||
| ## Week 9 - November 13: Letterpress | ||
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| ## Week 11 - December 7: Immersive Technologies | ||
| ## Week 10 - November 20: Immersive Technologies | ||
| What role do emerging technologies play in higher education? | ||
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| - [Nakamura, Lisa. Virtous Virtual Realities](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470412920906259) | ||
| <!-- - [Nakamura, Lisa. Virtous Virtual Realities](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470412920906259) | ||
| - [DLFteach Toolkit Volume 2: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy](https://dlfteach.pubpub.org/dlfteach-toolkit-2) | ||
| - [Make your own avatar](https://readyplayer.me/avatar ) | ||
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| ## Week 12 - December 14: Celebration | ||
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| <!--## Week 7: Observable + privacy | ||
| Is the internet listening? Is the internet listening to everybody? What if, by design, we can never know for sure? This week we will focus on the porous border between technical, social, and personal implications of continuous data collection. | ||
| - [Make your own avatar](https://readyplayer.me/avatar )--> | ||
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| - [The New Organs](https://neworgans.net/) Watch the 10 minute video and explore the landing page. | ||
| - [Cyril, Malkia. "Watching the Black Body." In *McSweeney’s* 54, pp. 0134-0146.](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/watching-black-body) | ||
| - [FBI report for Black Identity Extremist](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4067711-BIE-Redacted.html) | ||
| - [Brunton, Fin & Nissenbaum, Helen. Chapter 3 "Why is Obfuscation Necessary." In *Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest*."](https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/swarthmore/reader.action?docID=4093096&ppg=58) | ||
| ## Week 8: Algorithms | ||
| The question of "What is an Algorithm?" is as important as the question of "What does an Algorithm do?" There is a tension at play in what these authors are writing about and as you read and watch, pay attention to their answers to both questions. How would you answer? | ||
| - [Benjamin, Ruha. Short chapter 2."Default Discrimination Is the Glitch Systemic?" In *The New Jim Code*](https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/swarthmore/reader.action?docID=5820427&ppg=61) | ||
| - [Schmidth, Ben. "Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?" *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016*, edited by Gold, Matthew and Klein, Lauren.](https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/557c453b-4abb-48ce-8c38-a77e24d3f0bd) | ||
| - [Machine Bias in Propublica by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner,](https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing) | ||
| <!--### Week 8: On Clouds | ||
| Circling back to our earlier conversation about how the web works, when so much of infrastructure involves the effort to ensure it remains invisible, what does it take to make sense of infrastructure, that is, make infrastructure sensible and perceptible? | ||
| - [Tung-Hui, Hu. “Introduction.” In *A Prehistory of the Cloud* (2015)](https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/swarthmore/reader.action?docID=3433802&ppg=10) | ||
| - [Simon, Johnny. “These Beautiful Photos Reveal the Internet Is Hiding in Plain Sight.” *Quartz*. October 5, 2016.](https://qz.com/770849/these-beautiful-photos-reveal-the-internet-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/) | ||
| - [How Amazon uses 18-wheeler to transfer heavy data loads to the cloud](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/how-amazon-uses-snowmobile-trucks-snowball-devices-for-data-transfer.html) | ||
| - [Donnelly, Timothy. "The Cloud Corporation." *Poetry Foundation*.](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54305/the-cloud-corporation) | ||
| - *related previous reading* [Mattern, Shannon. "How to Map Nothing." *Places Journal* (March, 2021)](https://placesjournal.org/article/how-to-map-nothing/?cn-reloaded=1) | ||
| - *optional* [Jackson, Steven. 2014. "Rethinking Repair," from Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society](https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/RethinkingRepairPROOFS(reduced)Aug2013.pdf) | ||
| ## Week 9: Observable and the Computational Essay | ||
| ## Week 10: Surveillance & Privacy | ||
| Is the internet listening? Is the internet listening to everybody? What if, by design, we can never know for sure? This week we will focus on the porous border between technical, social, and personal implications of continuous data collection. | ||
| - [The New Organs](https://neworgans.net/) Watch the 10 minute video and explore the landing page. | ||
| "The New Organs is a project to gather, archive and investigate the theories and realities of corporate surveillance." | ||
| - [Cyril, Malkia. "Watching the Black Body." In *McSweeney’s* 54, pp. 0134-0146.](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/watching-black-body) | ||
| - [FBI report for Black Identity Extremist](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4067711-BIE-Redacted.html) | ||
| - *Optional* [Brunton, Fin & Nissenbaum, Helen. "Why is Obfuscation Necessary." In *Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest*."](https://www.zotero.org/groups/2224126/liblab/items/386WF94A/file) | ||
| ## Week 11: Algorithms | ||
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| The question of "What is an Algorithm?" is as important as the question of "What does an Algorithm do?" There is a tension at play in what these authors are writing about and as you read and watch, pay attention to their answers to both questions. How would you answer? | ||
| - [Schmidth, Ben. "Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?" *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016*, edited by Gold, Matthew and Klein, Lauren.](https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/557c453b-4abb-48ce-8c38-a77e24d3f0bd) | ||
| - [Bogost, Ian. "The Cathedral of Computation." *The Atlantic*. January 15, 2015.](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cathedral-of-computation/384300/) | ||
| - [New Paradigms of Justice. A talk by Dr. Safiya Noble author of *Algorithms of Oppression* (47min). Warning: racist laguange and images displayed during presentation.](https://youtu.be/zJSDPpGsCXE) | ||
| ## Week 10: Interlude | ||
| How can we intervene or coopt the tools/discourse of commercial tech to approach pressing social and political problems? What limitations or problems might arise in doing so? This week we took a break from our regularly scheduled programming to collaborate on a mini design sprint, a tiny gesture towards electoral catharsis. | ||
| ## Week 11: Machine Learning | ||
| Over the last twenty years give or take, the fabric of our lives has been interwoven with a special class of algorithms: Algorithms that use dynamic statistical weighting plus training data to generate novel outputs that may not have been explicitly programmed. Algorithms that, with more data and more iterations, self-modify. Spam filtering. Suggested text. Recommendations. Siri. Facial detection/recognition. Self-driving cars. This is not new! | ||
| In thinking about our last readings for the semester, take stock of the stack we've built so far during this semester: :turtle: artifacts **+** politics **+** HTML/CSS **+** internet infrastructure **+** clouds **+** data collection :turtle: | ||
| How might machine learning leverage the whole stack to ask pressing questions about not only our pasts but also possible futures? | ||
| - ["A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning" Part 1 & Part 2, from R2D3.](http://www.r2d3.us/) | ||
| - [Assogba, Yannick. "Machine Visions: Exploring Visual Motifs in Wes Anderson Films."](http://clome.info/work/machine-visions/) | ||
| - *Coded Bias*, dir. Shalini Kantayya (2020). | ||
| ## Week 11 - December 4: Surveillance and embodiment | ||
| Do we live in a survaillance culture? What are the privacy tradeoffs you make to use the tools you like? More importantly, do you know the liniage of survilance? | ||
| <!-- - [Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Introduction and Ch. 1](https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018837042204921) | ||
| - [Brunton, Finn & Nissenbaum, Helen. Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest. Chapter 3: Why Obfuscation is Necessary](https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018845263404921)--> | ||
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| *Optional* | ||
| - [Onuha, Mimi and Mother Cyborg. *A People's Guide to AI*, Allied Media (2018).](https://alliedmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/peoples-guide-ai.pdf) | ||
| - How do we talk about machine learning to non-experts whose lives are nevertheless impacted? | ||
| - [Pipkin, Everest. "On Lacework." *Unthinking Photography* (July 2020).](https://unthinking.photography/articles/on-lacework) | ||
| - Is there an aesthetics to machine learning? | ||
| - [Riedl, Mark. "Automated Rationale Generation." arXiv:1901.03729 (2011).](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03729) | ||
| - [Project Page](https://gvu.gatech.edu/research/projects/explainable-ai-rationale-generation) | ||
| - [Demo YouTube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcuLEBwXsQ) | ||
| - Beyond the scope of this class but worth pointing to an emerging trend called Explainable AI of which this is one particularly entertaining example. What would it mean to ensure algorithms are intelligible by humans? To whom should this responsibility fall? --> | ||
| ## Week 12 - December 11: Celebration + pitches |