Mary C Marino

Biographic Data

ID161047
NAMEMary C Marino
GIVEN NAMESMary C
FAMILY NAMEMarino
SIGNATUREMARINO M C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0003-2034-3433
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Conversations about conversational code

    Open AccessMary C Marino, Mark C Marino et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2026

    Published in 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA is the first conversational agent or chatbot, most famous for its DOCTOR persona. In 2021, a group of scholars recovered the original source code for ELIZA from the MIT archives. For about four years, an expanded team of eight scholars from diverse disciplines explored this code through weekly meetings in one of the longest ongoing projects of critical code studies. This paper presents both the methodo…

  • Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software

    Open AccessSarah Ciston, Zach Mann et al.ARTICLEDigital humanities quarterly2025

    Technology watchdogs and technoculture critics have discussed predictive policing software at an abstract level or have tried to reverse engineer its blackboxed code. In this paper, we use the methods of Critical Code Studies, media archaeology, and software studies more broadly to analyze CivicScape predictive policing software, published online, albeit partially. Working from an anti-racist approach, we examine how the CivicScape code calculate…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessMary C Marino, Mark C Marino et al.ARTICLEDigital humanities quarterly2023

    In this foreword from the editors we present a brief introduction to the field of Critical Code Studies, a reflection on its genesis and evolution, and a summary of the many and varied author contributions to Part 1 of this remarkable special collection

  • Occupy the Emotional Stock Exchange, Resisting the Quantifying of Affection in Social Media

    Open AccessRob Wittig, Mary C Marino et al.ARTICLEHumanities2017

    By using a carnivalesque strategy, netprovs discussed in this article introduced a disruption innovation into the social advertising market, a new source of value: creative satire. By playing multiple characters or forcibly separating the real person from the avatar they revealed the myth of the consistent online identity. By encouraging users to look on the other side of the mirror they sought to increase awareness of the real “why” these tools …

  • The Racial Formation of Chatbots

    Open AccessMary C MarinoARTICLECLCWeb Comparative Literature and…2014References: 3

    In his article "The Racial Formation of Chatbots" Mark C. Marino introduces electronic literature known as chatbot or conversation agent. These programs are all around us from automated help centers to smartphones (e.g., Siri). These conversation agents are often represented as text or disembodied voices. However, when programmers give them a body or the representation of a body (partial or full), other aspects of their identity become more appar…

  • The Canadian Sioux

    Open AccessMary C Marino, James H Howard et al.ARTICLEAnthropologica1987

  • Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply]

    Raoul Makarius, Harumi Befu et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1977Cited by: 2References: 9

    The synchronic, antievolutionary approach to kinship has made it impossible to grasp its nature and define it adequately. Understanding of the phenomenon is tobe found in the implications of Morgan's distinction between the classificatory and descriptive systems of kinship. These systems are based respectively on the tribal and family organizations, each giving rise to a different notion of kinship: one as recognition of common identity in a mate…