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Lehrende: Ariana Dongus
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
DM.M-MT
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
5 | -
Veranstaltungsname:
Whose Minds? Women, Infrastructure & Computational Workers (MT)
Veranstaltungsbeschreibung:
The course highlights the vital, yet often unrecognized, contributions of women and non-white individuals to histories of computation. This focus illuminates their roles during pivotal moments such as the industrial revolution, World War II, and the ENIAC's development, challenging dominant narratives through the lens of gender, race, and class relations. Through discussing the readings, the course questions established concepts to reveal complex entanglements present in the seemingly neutral term "technology." We question, "Whose knowledge and labor have shaped today's digital infrastructures?" to uncover a counter-narrative to the prevailing Silicon Valley myth, emphasizing the collective efforts of a global "cognitariat" in building large-scale high-tech projects such as the current AI-Systems.
An integral part of the course is the design of a Portable Syllabus, a comprehensive reading designed to invite students outside the classroom to explore the themes of race, gender, and class within the context of technology and computation. All texts will be shared via Dropbox in English and in German translation where available.
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Open for: allgemeine Wissenschaften , Master Digital Media, Freie Kunst and Integrated Design Master
Tentative Syllabus Overview:
Session I: Introduction & overview
April 11
Jennifer S. Light, “When Computer Where Women”, in: Technology & Culture, 1999, 40, p. 455-483.
Thompson, Clive. The Secret History of Women in Coding, New York Times
Magazine, Feb. 13, 2019.
Session II: Racial Relations in Everyday Technologies
April 25
Meredith Whittaker, Plantation, Computer, Industrial Control, logicmag, Issue 19, Move slow and heal things, https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/#7.
Benjamin, Ruha, Race After Technology. Abolitionist Tools for the new Jim Code
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019).
? Start work on syllabus: Groupwork
Session III: Gender Biases Within the Thinking Machine
May 9
What Was Artificial Intelligence?” in Critical Communication Theory: Power, Media, Gender, and Technology (Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2002.
Adam, Alison, Artificial Knowing. Gender and the Thinking Machine, Routledge, 1998.
? Groupwork: Collect materials.
Session IV: Class Relations
May 23
Eubanks, Virginia, Automating Inequality. How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and
Punish the Poor.
Irani, Lilly. “The Hidden Faces of Automation”. XRDS: Crossroads,
The ACM Magazine for Students 23, no. 2 (2016): 34–37.
? Homework: Groupwork on the Portable Syllabus.
Session V: Dismantling the Silicon Valley Narrative
June 6
Nakamura, Lisa. "Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early
Electronic Manufacture." American Quarterly 66, no. 4 (2014): 919-941. doi:10.1353/aq.2014.0070.
Ensmenger, Nathan. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and
the Politics of Technical Expertise, MIT Press, 2010.
Session VI:
June 20
Working on portable syllabus
Session VII: Final discussions & Outlook
July 4
? Feedback, final discussion and Portable Syllabus presentation
CP:
6
Raum:
1.07.060
Tag/Zeit:
11.4.
25.4.
9. Mai
23. Mai
6. Juni
20. Jni
4. Juli
Fortnightly, 14-täglich! 10am- 14pm.
First class: 11 April 2024.
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