N Stevens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 45109 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Stevens |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Stevens |
| FIRMA | STEVENS N |
| AFILIACIONES | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3811-9245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms
When approaching the internet, as subject or object, academics risk reinforcing colonial logics unless we acknowledge these histories and adapt our knowledge production accordingly. Yet, within academic institutions, Western values narrow the options for “valid” knowledge production - in a process recognized as “epistemic colonialism” (Fanon, 1963). In response to these histories and pressures, Black feminists, Indigenous scholars and activist-re…
Trans data epistemologies
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This transgender-led study asks “How do trans activists use data in their activism?” We interviewed 16 activists engaged in trans community care: from community healthcare to media production to policy making, our participants are making and using data about trans people to serve and support trans …
A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI
This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and e…
The unremarked optimum
The 1970s saw major transformations in how computerized databases were conceived, developed, and designed. Part of a broader shift in how software applications were developed, these transformations—sometimes referred to as “the database revolution”—introduced new and then-novel approaches to structuring and arranging digital data, optimizing them for usability and convenience. At the same time, however, the rhetoric of innovation and revolution s…
Seeing infrastructure
Facial recognition technology (FRT) has been widely studied and criticized for its racialising impacts and its role in the overpolicing of minoritised communities. However, a key aspect of facial recognition technologies is the dataset of faces used for training and testing. In this article, we situate FRT as an infrastructural assemblage and focus on the history of four facial recognition datasets: the original dataset created by W.W. Bledsoe an…
Data Set Failures and Intersectional Data
In 2016, a software developer named David and I met to discuss creating a quan- titative demographic survey of the open source software community to which we were both long-time contributors. David and I did not know each other well, but shared a belief that our open source community (OSC, hereafter) was an un- safe place for anyone who did not identify as white, cisgendered, heterosexual and male. That lack of safety was further complicated by a…
Seeing 21st Century Data Bleed through the 15th Century Wound Man
Are individuals at risk of "data bleedout" in 21st century environments saturated with wearable devices? Is there a good way of visualizing the range of wearables and related technology so that we can see the impact on both the human and their data? Wearable have been around for a long time ? eyeglasses date to the 13th century and artisans created wearable clocks in the 16th century. The wearable technologies of the 21st century are multiple and…
Sleep and psychological well-being
Sleep and psychological well-being
A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI
This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and e…
Sleep and psychological well-being
Seeing 21st Century Data Bleed through the 15th Century Wound Man
Are individuals at risk of "data bleedout" in 21st century environments saturated with wearable devices? Is there a good way of visualizing the range of wearables and related technology so that we can see the impact on both the human and their data? Wearable have been around for a long time ? eyeglasses date to the 13th century and artisans created wearable clocks in the 16th century. The wearable technologies of the 21st century are multiple and…
Data Set Failures and Intersectional Data
In 2016, a software developer named David and I met to discuss creating a quan- titative demographic survey of the open source software community to which we were both long-time contributors. David and I did not know each other well, but shared a belief that our open source community (OSC, hereafter) was an un- safe place for anyone who did not identify as white, cisgendered, heterosexual and male. That lack of safety was further complicated by a…
The unremarked optimum
The 1970s saw major transformations in how computerized databases were conceived, developed, and designed. Part of a broader shift in how software applications were developed, these transformations—sometimes referred to as “the database revolution”—introduced new and then-novel approaches to structuring and arranging digital data, optimizing them for usability and convenience. At the same time, however, the rhetoric of innovation and revolution s…
Seeing infrastructure
Facial recognition technology (FRT) has been widely studied and criticized for its racialising impacts and its role in the overpolicing of minoritised communities. However, a key aspect of facial recognition technologies is the dataset of faces used for training and testing. In this article, we situate FRT as an infrastructural assemblage and focus on the history of four facial recognition datasets: the original dataset created by W.W. Bledsoe an…
Trans data epistemologies
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This transgender-led study asks “How do trans activists use data in their activism?” We interviewed 16 activists engaged in trans community care: from community healthcare to media production to policy making, our participants are making and using data about trans people to serve and support trans …
A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI
This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and e…
Resisting Epistemic Colonialisms
When approaching the internet, as subject or object, academics risk reinforcing colonial logics unless we acknowledge these histories and adapt our knowledge production accordingly. Yet, within academic institutions, Western values narrow the options for “valid” knowledge production - in a process recognized as “epistemic colonialism” (Fanon, 1963). In response to these histories and pressures, Black feminists, Indigenous scholars and activist-re…
Computer Science (4 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Colonialism (2 obras) · Computer security (2 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 obras) · Internet privacy (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Politics (2 obras) · Accountability (1 obras)