Week 1/2
An AI tool starts to create misinformation
AI hallucination
Creator of the colossus computer
Tommy Flowers
Link structure of political websites
Googlearchy
Create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, remember
Bloom's Taxonomy
First to innovate the use of interchangeable cartridges in consumer gaming consoles
Gerald Lawson
“Tech designers encode judgements into technical systems but claim that the racist results of their designs are entirely exterior to the encoding process”
New Jim Code
Aspect of identity based on physiological features
Phenotype
Study of all processes by which people influence each other through symbols
Rhetoric
A type of supervised learning algorithm used in machine learning to solve classification and regression tasks
SVM
The social capabilities technological qualities enable
Affordances
Man-made systems that appear to require or to be strongly compatible with political relationships
Inherently political technologies
This links racial neutral technologies that encode inequality with race-neutral laws and policies that serve as powerful tools for white supremacy
the anti-black box
The overlap or intersection of a person who is a part of two different marginalized groups
Intersectionality
“An imperfection marked by urgency”
Exigence
Information overload, centralization of the internet, centrality of commercial mass media to the fourth estate function, authoritarian countries can use filtering and monitoring to squelch internet, digital divide
Democratizing effects of the internet