Ethics of the Algorithm - Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory

"The Holocaust is one of the most documented--and now digitized--events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive--but what are the ethical implications of "listening" to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm?"--

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Todd Presner

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Todd Presner, Presner Todd
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.09.2024
• EAN: 9780691258966
• ISBN: 978-0-691-25896-6
• Pagine: 456
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Media Studies, History: theory & methods, COMPUTERS / Computer Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Jewish, COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Jewish Studies, The Holocaust, algorithms and data structures, Social research & statistics, Algorithms & data structures, Information technology: general issues, Relating to Jewish people and groups, History: theory and methods, Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust