Privacy, Publicity, and the Text Message - AMS 343 / ENG 238 / HUM 342

W: 1:30-3:20 PM

This seminar will explore how we negotiate the distance between ourselves and others through text messages. Texts sustain an ambient intimacy that is increasingly redefining borders that range from the interpersonal--via anonymous mental health support--to the international--via reporting platforms for immigrant communities. What technical and social expectations of privacy do we operate with when sending a point-to-point message? How do novelists incorporate text messages into works of fiction? What does it mean that Frank Ocean can sing, "you text nothing like you look"?

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Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice - AAS 339 / EGR 339

M: 1:30-3:20 PM

Are robots racist? Is software sexist? Are neural networks neutral? From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed up, and even deepen discrimination. Using the Black Mirror TV series as a starting point, we will explore a range of emerging technologies that encode inequity in digital platforms and automated decisions systems, and develop a conceptual toolkit to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. Students will apply design justice principles in a collaborative project and learn to communicate course insights to tech practitioners, policy makers, and the broader public.

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The CDH is excited to announce the formation of a new East Asian DH Working Group at Princeton, with support from the East Asian Studies Department. The Working Group plans to regularly organize meetings, workshops and other events over the academic year. We would like to invite you to a virtual kick-off meeting – registration is not required.

Sep 28, 2020 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

zoom link / join by telephone – meeting ID 2520754010, passcode EADH

In this first meeting, the group will share its plans for the coming weeks and months. A number of Princeton students, faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines working on different parts of East Asia have been invited to share in very short presentations their ongoing or planned DH projects, including:

• Anna Shields (East Asian Studies)
• Chan Yong Bu (East Asian Studies)
• Gian Duri Rominger (East Asian Studies) / Nick Budak (Center for Digital Humanities)
• Hannah Waight (Sociology) 
• Caitlin Karyadi (Art & Archaeology)
• Joshua Seufert (East Asian Library)

We hope that many of you will be able join us.

Best wishes,

Joshua Seufert, Xin Wen, Nick Budak