Books
New York Review of Books: Workplace Systems: The Panopticon Unleashed?
Here is a video of my presentation at the New York Review of Books conference “Workplace Systems: The Panopticon Unleashed?”
Talking to Bots: Symbiotic Agency and the Case of Tay
In 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, an experimental artificial intelligence chat bot. Learning from interactions with Twitter users, Tay was shut down after one day because of its obscene and inflammatory tweets. This article uses the case of Tay to re-examine theories of agency. How did users view the personality and actions of an artificial intelligence […]
Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science
The study and analysis of large and complex data sets offer a wealth of insights in a variety of applications. Computational approaches provide researchers access to broad assemblages of data, but the insights extracted may lack the rich detail that qualitative approaches have brought to the understanding of sociotechnical phenomena. How do we preserve the […]