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π¨Publication alert π¨
My latest article has now been published in ESTS.
The paper explicates the creative labor required to reconcile incompatible informational logics in contemporary policing by retracing how crime analysts turn narrative reports into analyzable data.
tinyurl.com/4w24mbjz (OA)
This is available remote for free and I've never attended a virtual event here that wasn't great. Check it out and register for October.
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
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Interesting
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@jeffreyding.bsky.social
a screenshot of the first page of the article showing the title, authors and abstract
I'm so excited to share our paper for #chi2025:
"Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor"
As an anthropologist, I'm delighted to be able to contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on AI and art!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
To read a non-paywalled, next-to-final draft, go here - henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... - for HTML and here - henryfarrell.net/wp-content/u... - for PDF.
Screen shot from video of Katelyn speaking about the origin of the workbook with Dr. Christina Gessler on her podcast Academic Life.
Katelyn discusses how the idea of the book evolved to focus on the interrelationship between chapter level and book level arguments with Dr. Christina Gessler on her podcast, Academic Life Podcast.
Listen to the full Academic Life Podcast Episode: pca.st/iiasic26
#academicbookcentral #academicsky
See DM
OH MY GOD!
Haha - Why yes, I did live there...in Menlo Park, but my mom worked in Palo Alto.
As a general rule, I would say that most things we are being told to believe are technology issues are actually civics issues. 5/5
Publication Day!
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
I joined a private workshop this morning with ~17 AI notetakers (out of 45 participants). π€― There feels like an uptick adoption in recent months but few options to balance interests and respect individual preferences.
Our paper "Defining climate finance justice" is out now, open access. @laurla11.bsky.social
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Begrudgingly here to inform you that that "work on your book every day" ish actually works.
Listening a lot to The Shaw Singers lately. Opal Shaw is something else: digitalcollections-baylor.quartexcollections.com/Documents/De...
Book cover, The Ordinal Society, Fourcade & Healy
Just out - in today's mail
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Picture of John Lydon one-page interview
Nice interview with Johnny Rotten about caregiving and his wife's battle with dementia - in the latest AARP bulletin.
Brand Safety: Interesting discussion of GARM in the second part of this article about Jezebel re: advertising, algorithms, and risk avoidance by brands
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Attendance at this conference is free via Zoom. (Oct. 18-20). Every event I've attended at David Ramsey Map Center has been excellent. The abstracts / bios / schedule are up:
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
For my 1st earnest skeet, s/o to political scientist Debra Thompson's The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, & the Politics of the Census (Cambridge, 2016). Forever awestruck by how successfully she compares/contrasts Canada, UK, & US *within* each chapter. Top-tier academic book. Mashallah.
Hi! Still getting settled in. Similar to migration to Mastodon, have been using a tool (Chrome extension), Sky Follower Bridge, to find people I follow / followers.