40 research outputs found
sj-pdf-1-bds-10.1177_20539517231153806 - Supplemental material for Learning machine learning: On the political economy of big tech's online AI courses
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-bds-10.1177_20539517231153806 for Learning machine learning: On the political economy of big tech's online AI courses by Inga Luchs, Clemens Apprich and Marcel Broersma in Big Data & Society</p
WORKSHOP REPORT “FOR AND AGAINST METHOD” -- Nina Victoria Ebner, Daniel Gönitzer, Melanie Konrad and Inga Luchs on Methods as Research Practice
No full textVon Nina Victoria Ebner, Daniel Gönitzer, Melanie Konrad und Inga Luchs "Brocken Inaglory" auf Wikimedia CommonsIn November 2022, Clemens Apprich and Kristina-Pia Hofer organized a two-day event, the Inaugural Forum of the Austrian Media Studies Research School, a kick-off event to initiate regular exchange between young and experienced media scholars in Austria, entitled ‹For and Against Method› at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte – Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien..
AI for All?
No full textResearch in artificial intelligence (AI) is heavily shaped by big tech today. In the US context, companies such as Google and Microsoft profit from a tremendous position of power due to their control over cloud computing, large data sets and AI talent. In light of this dominance, many media researchers and activists demand open infrastructures and community-led approaches to provide alternative perspectives – however, it is exactly this discourse that companies are appropriating for their expansion strategies. In recent years, big tech has taken up the narrative of democratizing AI by open-sourcing their machine learning (ML) tools, simplifying and automating the application of AI and offering free educational ML resources. The question that remains is how an alternative approach to ML infrastructures – and to the development of ML systems – can still be possible. What are the implications of big tech’s strive for infrastructural expansion under the umbrella of ‘democratization’? And what would a true democratization of ML entail? I will trace these two questions by critically examining, first, the open-source discourse advanced by big tech, as well as, second, the discourse around the AI open-source community Hugging Face that sees AI ethics and democratization at the heart of their endeavour. Lastly, I will show how ML algorithms need to be considered beyond their instrumental notion. It is thus not enough to simply hand over the technology to the community – we need to think about how we can conceptualize a radically different approach to the creation of ML systems
What Was the Network? A Conversation on the Possibilities and Limits of the Network Imaginary
No full textWhat Was the Network? A Conversation on the Possibilities and Limits of the Network Imaginary
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The Eternal Network:The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture
No full text‘The network is everlasting’ wrote Robert Filliou and George Brecht in 1967, a statement that, at first glance, still seems to be true of today’s world. Yet there are also signs that the omnipresence of networks is evolving into another reality. In recent times, the limits of networks rather than their endless possibilities have been brought into focus. Ongoing media debates about hate speech, fake news, and algorithmic bias swirl into a growing backlash against networks. Perhaps it is time to reconsider the contemporary reach and relevance of the network imaginary.Accompanying transmediale 2020 End to End’s exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’, this collection gathers contributions from artists, activists, and theorists who engage with the question of the network anew. In referencing Filliou’s eternal notion, the exhibition and publication project closes the loop between pre- and post-internet imaginaries, opening up possible futures with and beyond networks. This calls many of the collection’s authors to turn to instances of independent and critical net cultures as historical points of inspiration for rethinking, reforming, or refuting networks in the present
The Eternal Network:The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture
No full text‘The network is everlasting’ wrote Robert Filliou and George Brecht in 1967, a statement that, at first glance, still seems to be true of today’s world. Yet there are also signs that the omnipresence of networks is evolving into another reality. In recent times, the limits of networks rather than their endless possibilities have been brought into focus. Ongoing media debates about hate speech, fake news, and algorithmic bias swirl into a growing backlash against networks. Perhaps it is time to reconsider the contemporary reach and relevance of the network imaginary.Accompanying transmediale 2020 End to End’s exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’, this collection gathers contributions from artists, activists, and theorists who engage with the question of the network anew. In referencing Filliou’s eternal notion, the exhibition and publication project closes the loop between pre- and post-internet imaginaries, opening up possible futures with and beyond networks. This calls many of the collection’s authors to turn to instances of independent and critical net cultures as historical points of inspiration for rethinking, reforming, or refuting networks in the present
From biased robots to race as technology
No full textreview of: Benjamin, R. (2019) Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code. Cambridge, UK/Medford, MA: Polity Pres
