CASCI Group Activities:
2119 Hornbake Bldg. South Wing
11:00 am – 12:00 noon
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February 4th, 2020
Citation: Shore, J., Baek, J., & Dellarocas, C. (2018). Network structure and patterns of information diversity on Twitter. MIS Quarterly 42(3): 849-872
Keywords: Social media, diversity, homophily, echo chambers, polarization, network analysis, political slant.
Led by: Shawn Janzen
This reading helps set up for the CASCI Guest Talk with Steven Johnson about Social Media Impact on Online News Consumption: Echo Chambers, Information Diversity, and Ideological Polarization
February 18th, 2020
Readings:
- The Secretive Company that Might End Privacy as We Know It
- Police have used celebrity look-alikes, distorted image to boost facial-recognition results, research finds
- Garbage In, Garbage Out report.
Keywords: Face recognition, information privacy, law enforcement, systems, and tools.
Citations:
- Cite: Hill, K. (2020, January 8). The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It. The New York Times, Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
- Harwell, D. (2019, May 16). Police have used celebrity look-alikes, distorted images to boost facial-recognition results, research finds. The Washington Post. Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/16/police-have-used-celebrity-lookalikes-distorted-images-boost-facial-recognition-results-research-finds/
- Garvie, C. (2019, May 16). Garbage In, Garbage Out. Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology. Retrieved from: https://www.flawedfacedata.com/
Led by: Shawn Janzen
These readings help set up for the CASCI guest Talk with Clare Garvie about Civil Liberties in the Age of Face Recognition
March 3rd, 2020
Citation: Strike, K., & Posner, G. (1983). Types of synthesis and their criteria.Chicago
Keywords: synthesis, types of synthesis, conceptual innovation, intellectual activities, dialectics, criteria of synthesis.
Led by: Shawn Janzen
This reading helps setup for the CASCI guest Talk with Joel Chan about Information infrastructures for creative knowledge work
March 24th, 2020
Citation: Brock, A. (2018). Critical technocultural discourse analysis. New Media & Society, 20(3), 1012-1030.
Keywords: African American, Black, critical discourse analysis, cyberculture studies, discourse analysis, information studies, Internet research, race, technoculture.
Led by: Shawn Janzen
This reading helps setup for the CASCI guest talk with Catherine Steele about Blogging Black Feminism (excerpt from Digital Black Feminism)
April 7th, 2020
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April 21st, 2020
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May 5th, 2020
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