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Never PostMad ChatMike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. What’s it for, and what kinds of feeling do we have when using it? Then, friend of the show Meghal Janardan speaks to children’s book author Laura Dower about her series “From the Files of Madison Finn”, an early exploration about what it was like being young, and online, at the turn of the millennium. Also: ssshhhhhh library asmr–
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Femminista si diventa![s02 ep18] Lotta all’ingiustizia algoritmicaAbbiamo l'abitudine di considerare i dati come qualcosa di neutro, forse addirittura oggettivo, perché sono numeri e di questi ci fidiamo a volte ciecamente. Eppure il processo che porta a quei numeri è del tutto umano, quindi fallibile, parziale, soggettivo. Per questo motivo è necessario capire come funzionano gli algoritmi che sono addestrati attraverso una enorme quantità di dati e come possono causare ingiustizie.Proviamo a farlo in questo episodio con Elena Beretta, data scientist alla Vrije University di Amsterdam dove studia come rendere più equa e inclusiva l’IA.Femminista si diventa! è un podcast prodotto da Frida UniTo e realiz...2024-07-2422 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiEryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13My guests today are Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders.What role do artists actually play in society? What about in the development of AI? It’s easy to speak in vague, grandiose terms about the power of art, but when do the actual actions, techniques, and interventions of artists amount to real-world impact? I’m not saying that art needs to lead to impact, but it’s important that we’re clear about the moments it does so that we can learn from the ways it did and to what extent it was successful. More broadly, it helps us see t...2024-06-262h 13
The Good RobotGamergate, Harassment, and Feminist Design with Caroline SindersIn this episode we talk to Caroline Sinders, the human rights researcher, an artist, and the founder of convocation, design and research. We begin by talking about Gamergate, when women were harassed for being gamers. We also talk about what it's like doing high risk research about abusive misogynists online and experiences of doxing. Just to give you a heads up. We do talk about online harassment in today's episode. If you're facing online harassment and you need immediate help Caroline's organization offers pro bono support, so just email, rapid@convocation.design. And they'll get back to you. 2024-05-2935 min
It Could Happen HereWhich Messaging App is Truly Secure?Robert sits down with Cooper Quinton and Caroline Sinders from the Tech Policy Press to discuss encrypted messaging apps, and which are really secure.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2023-10-2558 min
Humans On The Loop201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & MoreThis week we talk about the intersections of large language models, the golden age of television and its storytelling mishaps, making one’s way through the weirding of the labor economy, and much more with two of my favorite Gen X science fiction aficionados, OG podcaster KMO and our mutual friend Kevin Arthur Wohlmut. In this episode — a standalone continuation to my recent appearance on The KMO Show, we skip like a stone across mentions of every Star Trek series, the collapse of narratives and the social fabric, Westworld HBO, Star Wars Mandalorian vs. Andor vs. Rebels, chatGPT, Blade Runne...2023-04-131h 46
ReclaimFuturesFeminist Data Set - Caroline Sinders | ReclaimFutures2020What is feminist data inside of social networks, algorithms, and big data? How can we queer data, the archive, and the internet? How can a data set act as a form of protest, of a creation of bias mitigation? This talk looks at ways of intervention, from art, design, and technology that combat and challenge bias. How can we create data to be an act of protest against algorithms? Part of this talk will focus on Caroline’s research and current art project, Feminist Data Set. Feminist Data Set acts as a means to combat bias and introduce the po...2023-03-2100 min
Heja Framtiden427. Caroline Sinders: The quest for inclusive algorithms (IN ENGLISH)Caroline Sinders is an American artist and researcher, focusing on the intersection between technology, design and human interaction. The work brings her into fields of activism, journalism, regulation, art and communication, and she is regularly exploring topics like feminism and inclusion in the context of AI and machine learning. We met her at the Gather Conference in Stockholm in the fall of 2022, just before the generative AI revolution really took off, but the topics we discussed are even more relevant today. // Podcast host: Christian von Essen // Read more at hejaframtiden.se and check out our other episodes in English! 2023-03-0829 min
Ethics and Archiving the WebEthics and Archiving the Web: Documenting HateDocumenting Hate
March 22, 2018 at the New Museum, New York
eaw.rhizome.org
This panel considers whether documenting hate speech on the web have a role in dismantling white supremacy. What kind of ethical case can be made for devoting resources to archiving the digital presence of hate groups? What ethical guidelines are needed for archivists working in this context?
Patrick Davison
Editor, Data & Society
Aria Dean (moderator)
Assistant Curator for Net Art + Digital Culture, Rhizome
Joan Donovan
Media Manipulation/Platform Accountability Research Lead, Data & Society
Renee Saucier
Master...2022-11-1800 min
Imaginary WorldsGuys and DollsI’ve long been fascinated by automatons – wind up mechanical beings that create the illusion of life. People have been making automatons for centuries, but how many automatons get to sing opera? This week’s episode comes from the podcast Aria Code from WQXR, WNYC Studios and The Metropolitan Opera. The show breaks down famous arias and looks at the meaning behind them. Host Rhiannon Giddens, along with Soprano Erin Morley, conductor Johannes Debus, machine learning researcher Caroline Sinders, and psychologist Robert Epstein explore Jacques Offenbach’s 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann and how its automated character Olympia echoes current...2022-07-0737 min
Conversations on Applied AICaroline Sinders - The Intersection of Design, Art and Artificial IntelligenceThe conversation this week is with Caroline Sinders. Caroline is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology's impact on society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design+Research an agency focused on the intersection of machine learning, user research, designing for the public good and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Caroline holds a Bachelor's of fine arts...2022-05-2454 min
SustainEpisode 114: Chris Coleman and the Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA)Guest
Chris Coleman
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a really cool guest joining us, Chris Coleman, who is the Professor of Emergent Digital Practices and Director of The Clinic for Open Source Arts at the University of Denver. Chris takes us through his journey of creating The Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA), what they’re focused on, and some cool projects they are working with. He...2022-03-2533 min
SustainEpisode 107: Caroline Sinders on building healthy OSS CommunitiesGuest
Caroline Sinders
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Eriol Fox | Ben Nickolls
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are very excited to have as our guest, Caroline Sinders, who is the Founder of Convocation Design + Research. She’s also a critical designer, researcher, and artist, and a lot of the work she does is on online gender-based violence, as well as community health and toxicity. She has a lot of expertise looking at what Codes of...2022-02-0437 min
The Root & STEM PodcastCaroline Sinders: How AI Reflects Social BiasHow is AI already integrated into our daily lives and how will it continue to grow?In this episode of the Root & STEM podcast, Caroline Sinders, a machine-learning researcher and artist, as well as the founder of Convocation Design + Research, discusses the opportunities and functionality capabilities of AI for the advancement of both technology and art in our world.2021-12-2210 min
The Digital Infrastructure Fund PodcastEpisode 7: Caroline Sinders on the Importance of Diverse CommmunitiesGuest
Caroline Sinders
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool.
Today, we have Caroline Sinders, the Founder of Convocation Design + Research, as well as a lecturer at the London College of Communication in their Data Visualisation Masters program. She’s an artist and researcher and a lot of w...2021-11-2937 min
Self Evident: Asian America's StoriesScary to Imagine (2/2)This is the second part of a two-part story. If you haven’t heard part one, “Don’t Eat Nazi Shit Melons,” you can listen to it here. After the arrest of Indiana University Professor Cara Caddoo, the Mayor of Bloomington doubled down on anti-protest rules and police presence in the Bloomington City Farmers Market. But this failed to satisfy local activists calling for the removal of “Identitarian” Sarah Dye — and failed to mollify right-wing groups who were now turning Dye into a White nationalist media icon. As it became clear that the city wouldn’t change its pos...2021-11-0935 min
Reimagining the Internet33 Caroline Sinders Wants to Design Online Spaces for SafetyHow could social media systems be designed as safe places that really work for the people who use them? What can art help us understand about machine learning data sets? Caroline Sinders of Convocation Design joins us this week to talk about her research-based art practice that's trying to change perspectives about what exactly is going wrong on the Internet, and just how exciting it may be to fix it.2021-10-0732 min
Aria CodeGuys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of HoffmannWhat makes us human? As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, technology is becoming even more integrated into the fabric of daily life, and better able to simulate real human interactions. But what really separates humans from machines is our ability to love, to dream, and to believe in an illusion.
In Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, the poet Hoffmann thinks he’s finally found love, and he’s so head-over-heels that he doesn’t realize something’s off -- Olympia, the woman of his dreams, isn’t a woman at all. She’s a wind-up doll. But like all of...2021-07-0740 min
Queer Circle PodcastS2E11: Boundary Work with McKensie MackWelcome back to the Queer Circle Podcast where Queer Healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they'd tell their younger selves. Today's guest is McKensie Mack (pronouns: they/them), a Black, Queer, Non-Binary person based in Chicago, IL/Occupied Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodewadmi land. McKensie Mack is a trilingual anti-oppression consultant, researcher, facilitator, and the founder & CEO of MMG. MMG is a global social justice organization and change management firm that specializes in organizational change management; helping people transform culture, practices, and policies at the intersection of race, gender, class, disability, and LGBTQ+...2021-07-0130 min
Strong FeelingsStudying Harm with McKensie Mack, Caroline Sinders, and Yang HongIt’s no secret that the shift to remote work during COVID-19 has been stressful and isolating. But for many, the online workplace has also led to increased harassment, hostility, and harm. McKensie Mack, Caroline Sinders, and Yang Hong are co-authors of a new report from Project Include all about harassment, harm, and hostility in the remote workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study included data from almost 3,000 survey respondents as well several first-person accounts of how remote workplaces can exacerbate harm. The report aims to provide not only a comprehensive picture of the trauma faced by vari...2021-05-0650 min
Somerset House StudiosDefrag - Technology in Culture and SocietyDefrag was a series of talks curated by Jake Charles Rees for Somerset House Studios between 2017-2019, exploring how technology is changing the world we live in, including the way we produce and consume art and culture.
This podcast revisits the live recordings in the form of an audio montage, meshing together a range of fragmented thoughts from guest speakers. It delves into the practices of the people using and critiquing some of the latest technologies and how these shape and augment our realities.
Contributors
Silkie Carlo, Big Brother Watch
Anne Duffau
Bill Posters
Libby H...2021-01-2847 min
Mind the Progress: Ein Podcast zu Kreativität und DigitalisierungDatenverarbeitung und Manipulation mit Caroline SindersDie Künstlerin und Wissenschaftlerin Caroline Sinders erläutert, auf welche Art Daten gesellschaftliche Vorurteile sichtbar machen und potenzieren – und welche Auswege es gibt.2020-12-1052 min
Radio DecidimCaroline Sinders in conversation with Tayrine DiasThis conversation was held at #Decidimfest20 after the keynote of Caroline Sinders "Research Driven Art" that you can watch/listen here
https://meta.decidim.org/conferences/decidimfest2020/f/1390/meetings/14562020-12-0700 min
Ràdio DecidimDecidim Fest 20: Conversation between Caroline Sinders and Tayrine DiasThis conversation between Caroline Sinders and Tayrine Dias took place on the 20th of November, during Decidim Fest 2020.2020-12-0728 minRadio DecidimCaroline Sinders: Research Driven ArtCaroline Sinders is an artist and researcher exploring how new kinds of data sets, be it emotional data, traumatic data, or political data can then affect algorithms through the lenses of social justice and intersectional feminism. How can these outputs be actualized as an art piece? Her work explores the intersections of critical design, data, and AI as art. This talk will explore the methodology she’s created to guide both her art and research practice, called “research driven art.” Inspired by photojournalism, critical design, and open source software, research driven art is a process driven artistic methodology, focusing on questi...2020-11-0700 min
Disruption Network LabALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and Possible EscapesALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and Possible Escapes Caroline Sinders (Machine Learning Designer/User Researcher, Artist, Digital Anthropologist, USA/DE) and Sarah Grant (Media Artist and Educator, Radical Networks, USA/DE) in conversation with Ruth Catlow (Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Furtherfield, UK). Algorithms are not neutral and unbiased, but instead often reflect, reinforce and automate the current and historical biases and inequalities of society, such as social, racial and gender prejudices. This panel frames this issue, and aims to discuss some possible escapes. Caroline Sinders discusses what an intersectional Feminist AI could look like, and how...2019-11-301h 09
re:publica 19 - Science & TechnologyAI is More Than Math: Using Art and Design to Interrogate Bias in AICan there be neutral data, unbiased algorithms, good machine learning? AI, algorithms, and machine learning are explicitly linked by how they are fearfully and hotly discussed in the media as the future of technology, as dystopian tools and procedures and as a tech that is difficult to understand and in need of regulation, ethics, and examining. This talk examines the current landscape of AI in consumer products, and suggest ways that design and art can mediate and potentially intervene.
Caroline SindersWhat is feminist data inside of social networks, algorithms, and big data? How can we queer data, the...2019-05-0646 min
JRC SciArt ProjectCaroline Sinders2019-03-1416 min
The VergecastThe history of online harassment before and after Gamergate with Caroline SindersCataloging online harassment before and after Gamergate with Caroline Sinders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2018-12-0453 min
JRC SciArt ProjectCaroline Sinders (ENG)Caroline Sinders is an artist, researcher and designer with a speciality in machine learning and conversation. As the Eyebeam Fellow, Caroline is building chat bots and machine learning commenting systems to mitigate abuse. Prior to her fellowship, she was a user researcher at IBM Watson. Caroline holds a master's degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her work focuses on the intersections of ethnography, visual systems, machine learning, language, data, trauma, and online harassment. Caroline’s work has been featured in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Style.com, Fusion News, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Eyeo, IXDA...2018-06-2704 min
Han and Matt Know It All#25: Hannah and Matt Fight Rape CultureHannah and Matt tackle questions from some of their favorite advice sources from the week of June 18th, 2017, and beyond, including: Ask A Manager: "Employee Drew Genitalia on an Intern’s Cast"; The Cut: "Sexual-Harassment Claims Against a ‘She-E.O.’"; Ask E. Jean: "How Do I Get My Fiancé to Stop Catcalling Me?"; After Hannah reached out to Elle to point out how problematic E. Jean’s answer was, Elle silently took down the page. It nevertheless did not escape Archive.org preserving the question forever; Swipe This!: "My Friend’s Faux #Feminist Persona Makes Me Bonkers"; Dear Mariella: "My...2017-06-2655 min
re:publica 17 - All SessionsEmotional Trauma, Machine Learning and the Internet (en)This is a talk on machine learning, emotional data, and how design affects behavior, specifically around online harassment. Can design and data affect behavior, and mitigate online harassment? The talk will cover two topics- the possibility of creating emotional data corpuses in machine learning, and using machine learning along with users in social media platforms to create transparent, open systems that focus on emotions and conversations.
Caroline SindersHow do we create, code and make emotional data inside of systems? And how do we create the necessary context t in larger systems that use data. Is it possible to use...2017-05-0949 min
Flash ForwardCalifornia DreamingCalifornia has one of the largest economies in the world. So what would happen if it broke away from the United States? Could California ever go independent? And if it did, what would that look like?
This is a future that’s been on my list for a while, but since the election here in the United States it’s taken a bit of a different tone. California voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, 66 percent of the state cast their votes for her. And as most of you probably know, she did not win. And this is one of...2017-03-0740 min
Flash ForwardCalifornia DreamingCalifornia has one of the largest economies in the world. So what would happen if it broke away from the United States? Could California ever go independent? And if it did, what would that look like? This is a future that’s been on my list for a while, but since the election here in the United States it’s taken a bit of a different tone. California voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, 66 percent of the state cast their votes for her. And as most of you probably know, she did not wi...2017-03-0738 min
Flash ForwardWhere’s the Beef?Today we go to a future where animal products are banned. It’s one that lots of listeners have asked for so here you go. We talk about what happens to the land, the animals and the humans in this equation.
In this episode we discuss the arguments in favor and against banning meat. How does that impact culture? Why should we do it? Does it help or hurt the environment? Can you really grow meat in a lab? And is that meat vegan?
First we talked to folks in the “ban the meat” camp. Marta Zaraska, the author of Meathooked...2016-08-1038 min
Flash ForwardWhere’s the Beef?Today we go to a future where animal products are banned. It’s one that lots of listeners have asked for so here you go. We talk about what happens to the land, the animals and the humans in this equation. In this episode we discuss the arguments in favor and against banning meat. How does that impact culture? Why should we do it? Does it help or hurt the environment? Can you really grow meat in a lab? And is that meat vegan? First we talked to folks in the “ban the m...2016-08-1037 min
Flash ForwardKaboomToday week we take on a doomsday future! We haven’t done one of those this season. So, what would happen if all the active volcanoes in the world erupted at the same time? The short answer is: bad things. The long answer is, well, you’ll have to listen to the episode!
First we talk to Jessica Ball, a volcanologist, who walks us through the different types of eruptions, what make something an active volcano, and just how bad ash is. Spoiler: it’s really bad. It gums up engines, cuts up your lungs, and is so heavy that it can c...2016-06-1430 min
Flash ForwardKaboomToday week we take on a doomsday future! We haven’t done one of those this season. So, what would happen if all the active volcanoes in the world erupted at the same time? The short answer is: bad things. The long answer is, well, you’ll have to listen to the episode! First we talk to Jessica Ball, a volcanologist, who walks us through the different types of eruptions, what make something an active volcano, and just how bad ash is. Spoiler: it’s really bad. It gums up engines, cuts up your lungs, and is s...2016-06-1429 min
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.comCaroline Sinders on designing for consent and AI chatbot mythsDuring this live taping at Collision 2016, Jon talks with "User researcher, artist, and digital anthropologist" Caroline Sinders about the intersection of UX design and machine learning. Sinders shares key points from her Collision talk on design for consent, and whether online harassment can be reduced via design. Sinders gives her assessment of Facebook's chatbots and explains why calling such chatbots "AI" is inaccurate. Finally, Sinders sets the record straight on the panel controversy at SXSW and what conference organizers should learn from that brouhaha.2016-05-0435 min
Busting the omnichannel - enterprise hacks and chatsDesigning for consent, and AI chatbot myths - live with Caroline SindersDuring this live taping at Collision 2016, Jon talks with "User researcher, artist, and digital anthropologist" Caroline Sinders about the intersection of UX design and machine learning. Sinders shares key points from her Collision talk on design for consent, and whether online harassment can be reduced via design. Sinders gives her assessment of Facebook's chatbots and explains why calling such chatbots "AI" is inaccurate. Finally, Sinders sets the record straight on the panel controversy at SXSW and what conference organizers should learn from that brouhaha.Yes, you can get Busting the Omnichannel on iTunes.2016-05-0435 min
Chaos Computer Club - 32C3: gated communities (mp3)When algorithms fail in our personal lives (32c3)„Social Media Break Up Coordinator“ is a performance art piece and lecture performed by Caroline Sinders. Inspired by Facebook’s memories algorithms faux pas, such as parents being reminded of their child’s death, or of events with an ex.
about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7497.html2015-12-3053 min
Chaos Computer Club - archive feed (high quality)When algorithms fail in our personal lives (32c3)„Social Media Break Up Coordinator“ is a performance art piece and lecture performed by Caroline Sinders. Inspired by Facebook’s memories algorithms faux pas, such as parents being reminded of their child’s death, or of events with an ex.
about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7497.html2015-12-3053 min