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Das Fachgebiet #Medienbildung der @tuberlin zieht gerade von @medienbildung@nrw.social hierher um.

Wir forschen und lehren zu Bildung in der digitalen Welt, kreativen Praktiken und kritischen Perspektiven auf Algorithmen, Code & Daten.

Hier gibt’s Updates zu unseren Projekten, Publikationen & Veranstaltungen.

Folgt uns schon jetzt für Diskussionen, Denkanstöße & spannende Einblicke! 💬👀

#Digitalität #TUBerlin #SETUB #critcode #criticaldatastudies #Wissenschaftskommunikation

Can't wait to visit SDSU Tueday and give a talk on Critical Code Studies and AI! Thanks for inviting me, Jessica Pressman!

#critcode

What can the code of open source predictive policing software tell us about the tool?

See our new article in DHQ:
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1/000757/000757.html

#machinelearning #critcode
#criticalai #artificialintelligence

@sarahciston @jeremydouglass @zmann

Check out:
Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software
by Sarah Ciston, Zach Mann, Jeremy Douglass & Me
in Digital Humanities Quarterly

#antiracist #critcode #machinelearning #artificialintelligence

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1/000757/000757.html

If you want to chat with a faithful recreation of the first chatbot, try this one, created by Team ELIZA superstar Anthony Hay!

https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/try-eliza

#artificialintelligence #softwarestudies #critcode

"World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades!" coverage of Team ELIZA in New Scientist! feat. Jeff Shrager and David Berry

https://archive.is/2025.01.17-144205/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2463843-worlds-first-ai-chatbot-has-finally-been-resurrected-after-decades/

#computerhistory #critcode

Come read code at my workshop on Critical Code Studies today hosted by the Cambridge CCS reading group, coordinated by Claire Carroll and Orla Delaney
Nov. 27 at 9am PST, 5pm UK

Open to all who register (free)

https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39160/

#critcode

Join my workshop on Critical Code Studies tomorrow hosted by the Cambridge CCS reading group, coordinated by Claire Carroll and Orla Delaney
Nov. 27 at 9am PST, 5pm UK

Open to all who register (free)

https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39160/

#critcode

#s12tot students intrigued by @sramsay’s “Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools” video should check out the #critcode hashtag

Excited to read this new issue of Digital Journalism, packed with Critical Code Studies. Articles by Jan Lauren Boyles, Kenneth Greenwood, Matthew S. Weber, and more #critcode

Will hunt for Open Access:
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdij20

Feeling Glücklich to get my copy of Digitale Schriftlichkeit, eds. Martin Bartelmus and Alexander Nebrig, which includes my #critcode reading of The Gay Science by Daniel Ravipinto from the Ryan Veeder invitational, great work of codework in interactive fiction.

The TikTok "Secret Sauce" metaphor is back with the new bill. Great example of the hyping of an algortithm. #critcode

https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/tiktoks-secret-sauce

We are at a stage where AI can manipulate symbols, whether code, image, or text, without intention or the goal of making meaning. But we take the output as if it was produced intentionally with meaning. To that end, ChatGPT helped me make a website that converts any hallucinated code to WookieScript (also hallucinated) and then translates that into depictions of Space Battles. Here's the thread where we discuss it.

https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/180/the-weird-world-of-wookiescript-code-critique-ai-and-ccs

#aigenerated #aigeneratedcode #critcode

@craigdietrich leads us into the final week of #CCSWG24 with a discussion of qays of teaching Critical Code Studies

#critcode

https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/178/teaching-critical-code-studies-main-thread#latest

On episode 32, First Officer Locks discovers this code that causes the shipboard computers to compliment Captain Khairk's hair every day.

#hairwars #startrek #critcode #aigenerated by #dalle

Chewbucko has been giving presentations on WookieScript in conferences and webinars, explaining the languages various growls.

#aigenerated #critcode by #DALLE #hairwars #starwars

We launch our DHQ week, featuring authors from our 2 #critcode special issues as cohosts! Zach Whalen, Daniel Temkin, Annette Vee, David Berry, Zach Mann, Joris Van Zundert, Evan Buswell, Jason Boyd, John Cayley, Lai-Tze Fan, & Kevin Brock

Happy to gather with a few of the CCSWG24 participants for a demo where @jeremydouglass and I shared some techniques for exploring code with LLMs. #critcode

@ranjodh

What happens when we try to read and interpret code with the help of an LLM? Jeremy Douglass offers some initial observations this week in CCSWG24

https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/159/code-critique-llm-reads-marylyn-tans-queer-bodies-code-critique#latest

#critcode

Jeremy and I have launched the Week 2 discussions: AI and Critical Code Studies. We will be talking about using LLMs to write and read code as well as trying to read the code of LLMs. @jeremydouglass

https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/157/ai-and-critical-code-studies-main-thread#latest

#critcode