xiaochang.bsky.social
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@xiaochang
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech rec, related data practices; general tomfoolery. https://t.co/Nir9JwFlW7
Many thanks to @wrongrrl for delivering the keynote address at this year’s @SIGCIS meeting! Her forthcoming book on eugenics & Big Tech (Predatory Data) should be on every #histSTM & #STS scholar’s reading list: ucpress.edu/book/978052040… #SIGCIS2024
📢 #CFP: “But Is It Media?” #JCMS is calling for papers for its inaugural special issue. 500 word abstracts are due Sep. 6, 2023! More info here: github.com/jcmsjournal/ed…
The article I wrote w/@maramills on the history of speech recognition and speaker identification for the special issue of Technology and Culture on sound data is finally out! muse.jhu.edu/article/727301. Thanks to @carobirdsall and Viktoria Tkaczyk for bringing the issue together!
CBI's Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in Age of Machines That Learn -a free symposium Feb. 17-18 '23 Register today at z.umn.edu/8d7l pls rt @SocHistTech @4sWeb @hssonline @labortechgroup #ai #hci #sts @SIGCIS @greenarchives1 @xiaochang @danbouk
BTS as Microsoft applications (thread)
We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics. Today, we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks.
