Rida Qadri

Research Scientist @GoogleAI | AI & Global South |

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

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!

https://t.co/RKdjQzYfNM

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@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

[Cynthia Bennett (she) 👩🏻‍🦯 @clb5590]

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

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@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.

[Microsoft Research @MSFTResearch]

.@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

[Mary L. Gray @marylgray]

Perfect timing for this convo. Spoiler alert! My answer will be 'Ah, nope! Need private and public partnerships to fix things ASAP.' Friends, please share @primrconnect @PartnershipAI @ACM_Ethics @kathytpham @baxterkb @ruchowdh @ZiaKhanNYC @pervade_team @klinovakatya @BostonJoan

[IEET @IEET]

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

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@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

[Dr. Renée Gosline @reneegosline]

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

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@gleemie Thankful for having your work to think alongside with!

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@Joey__Schafer @WIRED Thanks for reading!!

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

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/

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

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/

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@tabithagold Thanks so much for reading!

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

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.

https://t.co/DADGoGqlHG

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

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

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@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.

https://t.co/DADGoGqlHG

[Rida Qadri @qadrida]

@jathansadowski @histoftech Thanks! Mar's work has been such an inspiration in thinking through these questions.