Gojek drivers told me abt the ingenious apps they create to navigate life as a driver--their 'IT of the Road' is exactly the kind of disruptive tech startups are lauded for, yet when drivers innovate they get banned.
Many thx to the @motherboard team!
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@luke_stark We did a study of cultural representations produced by T2I models in conversation with participants from South Asia, co-defining/evaluating a taxonomy of empirical model failures and possible cultural harms with them. https://t.co/iY2fVtYQ8n
Honored to be part of extremely important community centered research identifying South Asian cultural limitations in AI-generated images led by @qadrida w/ @cephaloponderer@renee_m_shelby#FAccT23 in today’s 1:15 Values & Representation session!
https://t.co/2NsQCEASRD
@zephoria Sidewalk by Mitch Duneier has the most excellent methods appendix where he details how his ethnographic approach evolved, relationship with the site+participants, and choices he made from minute to major. The book also includes an afterword from one of the research participants.
.@marylgray welcomes scholar, designer, & activist @schock to the #MSRPodcast. Tune in as they explore tech design’s role in perpetuating structural inequality & how advocates & community groups are bringing people together for equitable & accountable AI: https://t.co/KjraiPXvqx
Rida Qadri's talk for the IEET/AEC Future of Work project "The Worker in Future(s) of Work." Using the case of grassroots organization by mobility platform workers in Jakarta. @qadrida https://t.co/xTFXIxvDIq
@tamigraph@meejatheory@yalepress I will think of this line every time I take a screenshot: "screenshot is a device for preserving the materiality of passing digital experiences...I present the screenshot as, simultaneously, both a mourning object and a research tool"
You might like this: https://t.co/fq84UQj13q
Really looking forward to chopping it up w/the brilliant @ruchowdh@hypervisible & @geomblog on the ways firms can achieve Algo accountability & responsibility. Join us at the @mit_ide#SMSMIT22 led by @sinanaral. It's virtual, free, & will cover misinfo, algo transparency +more
Qadri studies workers who are seizing the means of computation, reverse-engineering and repurposing the apps that are meant to keep them in bondage and setting themselves free. Her research on gig drivers in Jakarta is essential reading:
https://t.co/dchbWAsvO4 3/
This is mutual aid, with code. It is every bit as innovative and disruptive as Uber or Amazon, but because it is done *by* workers, rather than *to* workers, it is not recognized as such. 7/
As tech companies take away space from users to shape their own digital futures, clamping down on what @doctorow calls adversarial interoperability, the real promise of tech--its generativity--is lost. We are instead left with mere tools.
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Big Tech's gospel of disruption promotes a sanitized & corporatized form of innovation--casting the tech company as the only legitimate actor of change. My piece in @WIRED on how this mythos strips away user agency & flattens our complex social world
https://t.co/DADGoGqlHG
@gleemie argues innovation is not an intrinsic category. Neither is disruption. There is a line created between disruption and fraud, disruption and destruction, disruption and illegality. Tech companies become the arbiters of that line.
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