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Counting Feminicide Book Launch & Signing Party
Counting Feminicide documents the creative, intellectual, and emotional labor of feminicide data activists across the Americas who are at the forefront of a data ethics that rigorously and consistently takes power and people into account. Catherine D'Ignazio will do a short talk about the overall project, followed by talks by two junior scholars who have worked on this project. Harini Suresh (Computer Science) will speak about her contributions to the co-design of AI/ML technologies with feminist activists and Alessandra Jungs de Almeida (International Relations, Women & Gender Studies) on her leadership of participatory action research and design with Brazilian activists.
📚 Books 📚 will be available for purchase and signing and we will definitely have some 🥙 food 🥙 and 🥂 drink 🥂 for celebrating!
Date:
Thu, 9/19/2024
Time:
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Place:
Samuel Tak Lee Building
105 Massachusetts Avenue
MIT Building 9, Room 255
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
Event Related Books & Products
Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action
Current price:
$34.95
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780262048873
Publish Date:
Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.
What isn’t counted doesn’t count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls...
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Cutting edge strategies for thinking about data science and data ethics through an intersectional feminist lens.
“Without ever finger-wagging, Data Feminism reveals inequities and offers a way out of a broken system in which the numbers are allowed to lie.”—WIRED
Today, data science is a form of power...
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