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>> The tone of the course materials about justice and power are sort of gross to me, Which is: > The focus of the course is on text, which is at the traditiona
by totetsu 3y ago
>> The tone of the course materials about justice and power are sort of gross to me,
Which is:
> The focus of the course is on text, which is at the traditional heart of the humanities. We study how text appears and is used in computing, and how computation has changed the experience of text. Most of the text we deal with daily is on the Web. We trace the development of computational text from the early days to today’s Web, as a lens to understand computing’s impact on the world. We will address directly how early computing biased towards supporting only certain kind of texts for only certain kinds of people. The Web was created with a bias towards America and Europe, men, and most strongly, towards English.
Each section of the course will teach about computing, explicitly including programming, in the frame of justice. How was computing created, and for who and what purposes – both explicit and implicit? What computational skills, knowledge, and insights support critical study of the impact of computation on our lives?
Strange thing to be grossed out about, but hey..
- motohagiography 3y agoI think there is a way to acknowledge that someone whose views are opposite to your own has done something valuable or made a good point without endorsing the rest of their views, and that the resume exercise is such a good idea that it rises above the disagreements in principle that are otherwise not reconcilable. I have irreconcilable differences of principle and axioms with the totalitarized, but as people, some of them are still capable of producing some useful ideas.