Some female editors have been the target of harassment from their male colleagues—and the gender bias has spilled over into the site’s content, too.
Source: Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women
Some female editors have been the target of harassment from their male colleagues—and the gender bias has spilled over into the site’s content, too.
Source: Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women
On October 13th 2015, CMJ Director Malkia Cyril gave a keynote address at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference.
It was a passionate appeal about the need for “a new civil rights act for the era of big data.”
Source: Targeted Surveillance, Civil Rights, and the Fight for Democracy – The Center for Media Justice
The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
You can’t count on the web, okay? It’s unstable. You have to know this.
Source: The Internet’s Dark Ages
This is a microcosm of the danger facing American archives. Because almost nothing is catalogued at the item-level, most of the unique material housed in these most important of repositories is particularly vulnerable to theft. When someone like Breithaupt steals a book, even a very old book, there is a catalog record that tells us it is missing—and likely some kind of duplicate copy somewhere else in the world. But when he steals a letter from Flannery O’Connor to John Crowe Ransom—unless that letter has been photocopied by another person—it basically ceases to exist. Not only do we not have the information in it, but we don’t even know that we don’t have the information in it.
Source: The Unseen Theft of America’s Literary History ‹ Literary Hub
But can machines be expected to be fully empathetic? Signs point to no. It is relatively easy to create a learning brain but we don’t yet know how to create a heart or a soul. In a recent talk at the New Yorker festival MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito asserted that “humans are really good at things computers are not.â€
Source: What will become of empathy in a world of smart machines? | Media Network | The Guardian