I unfortunately missed class last week due to a cold, so I can only draw on information presented in the readings. Across all of the readings, I found the idea of equality as a performative measure to be most intriguing. In a political landscape in which equality is becoming more and more emphasized, it seems […]
From my overachieving years in Model UN as a high school student, I’m familiar with SDGs and the impossibility of actually enacting change through multinational organizations such as those that make up the UN. But, I haven’t thought much (or at least not recently) about access to data for measuring compliance and progress toward meeting […]
The most unfamiliar aspects of last week’s readings were the style, structure, and language in the articles. I am far more familiar with narrative writing and using local examples to illustrate characteristics of macro discussions and theories. This genre of writing was overtly structured, formulaic, and distant, and therefore was more difficult for me to […]
The readings that we have done so far have demonstrated that data is very much subject to both present and historical biases and as such cannot be taken at face value, nor even be considered reliable and ethical. Lara Putnam, in her article “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” […]
In the readings for our first two overview weeks, I was most interested in the ways in which power and privilege both have structured and are evident in systems of classification and in representation and misrepresentation. For my response, I will consider the discussion of these themes in our readings by Safiya Umoja Noble and […]
Aronova, von Oertzen, and Sepkoski’s “Introduction” provides a comprehensive foundation from which to discuss Big Data, computers, and science. In their writing, they reflect critically on the legal, ethical, and political implications of today’s information technologies and the high value it places on data. They ask, then, “what is the source of the new value?”[1] […]
Bonjour, my name is Arushi Sahai. I am a second-year PhD student in History of Art and Architecture Department. My area of interest is Indian Modern Architecture though in future years I hope to expand and learn about Modern Architecture of developing countries similar to India. My goal for the class is to be interdisciplinary […]
I am a first-year doctoral student in the History of Art and Architecture department. My primary fields of study are medieval art and architecture, medievalism, and the history of collections. In my current research, I am interested in George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), who was an American sculptor and collector of medieval art. In considering Barnard […]