Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Lauren Klein in the new SJSU Digital Humanities Center. The development and use of artificial intelligence has become a hot button topic all over the world. How we use and collect data becomes the foundation for data storytelling. But, is this all okay? What is data? How is it being collected? What can we do about this? Are there innovative and ethical ways to use our data within the development of artificial intelligence?

Abstract
In Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), Klein and her coauthor Catherine D'Ignazio established a set of principles for doing more just and equitable data science. Informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought, the principles of data feminism modeled how to examine and challenge power, rethink binaries and hierarchies, elevate emotion and embodiment, consider context, embrace pluralism, and make labor visible. How can these principles be applied to the current conversation about AI, its present harms, and its future possibilities? This talk will briefly summarize the principles of data feminism before moving to a set of real-world examples that show how these principles can be applied – and extended – in our current technological landscape.

Reception follows immediately 5-7pm, sponsored by CIRCLE, a Mozilla Foundation Responsible Computing award recipient.

Questions & Registration
Please submit questions in advance via the registration form.
Free - Registration Required - In-Person space is limited, please register early.

Student-Friendly

This event is appropriate for those new to Data Science and data storytelling, especially students, as well as those more advanced in their knowledge and research. If you are looking for assignments or extra teaching materials to support your curriculum, you might take a look at the archived Reading Group for Data Feminism. It's a chapter-by-chapter gathering that were hosted online by Dr. Klein and her co-author, Dr. D'Ignazio. Data Feminism is also freely available to read online!  

Location & Parking
SJSU’s King Library is located at the intersection of 4th St & San Fernando (see Google maps & campus map).

Parking is available at any of the SJSU parking garages using the ParkMobile app to pay for parking (see Parking Options). Metered street parking is also available. VTA light rail Blue & Green lines drop at 1st Street for a 7min walk to campus gates. (See more transportation options here.)

About the Speaker
Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory University. She also directs the Digital Humanities Lab there. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech.

Klein works at the intersection of data science, AI, and the humanities, with an emphasis on research questions of gender and race. She has designed platforms for exploring the contents of historical newspapers, modeled the invisible labor of women abolitionists, and recreated forgotten visualization schemes with fabric and addressable LEDs. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), which was named one of the “must-read books for Spring 2020” by WIRED magazine. With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge.
She is currently completing a digital project, Data by Design: A History in Five Charts, forthcoming from the MIT Press, and envisioning the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network with colleagues at Clark Atlanta and Georgia Tech.  

This event generously co-sponsored by:

• SJSU H&A in Action / College of Humanities and the Arts
• CIRCLE: Cross-Campus Interdisciplinary Responsible Computing Learning Experience
• Committee on Society's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice, School of Information
• SJSU College of Engineering
• SJSU College of Business
• SJSU Department of Humanities
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For questions, contact Dr. Katherine D. Harris, Director of Public Programming & Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities (katherine.harris@sjsu.edu)