{"id":893,"date":"2019-10-18T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2019-10-18T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:42:49","slug":"critical-dh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/critical\/critical-dh\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical DH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Algorithms aren\u2019t perfect, and scholars have been criticizing them for being too broad or biased to be relied upon as much as we do today.\u00a0 Cathy O\u2019Neill mentions that algorithms can be described as \u201cOpinions imbedded in math\u201d. <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Due to this, opinions that are different to the one who wrote the algorithm or control the algorithm can be snuffed out and ignored.\u00a0 Some scholars have suggested that we push for understanding how the powers that control the algorithms work.\u00a0 This way, we as consumers can avoid using Google, and other search engines in a way that promote these racially or sexually motivated search terms, as mentioned in Noble\u2019s paper on the subject. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1930s, society was undergoing\nintense societal change due to the Great Depression, and because of this\nfeminism and in general the whole popular front became popular.  The popular front was made up of radicals\nthat can range from communists to people advocating for racial desegregation.  Some folk singers, such as Woody Guthrie were\nassociated with the communists, and it\u2019s reflected in their songs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feminists were also a part of the\npopular front, and they had their own impact on society back then.  Due to the lack of money, women began to work\nfor themselves instead of relying on their men for money.  This in turn began to change the way society\nsaw certain professions and allowed women to become more independent.  Later, when the US joined WWII, women in the\nindustrial sector became much more common, which shows that during this time,\nwomen working in clothing factories and farms changed the way America saw\nworking class women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There can be connections drawn between\nthe WPA-era activists and modern activists in a couple of ways.  For one, both activists are fighting for racial\nand sexual equalities in the US using art to express their ideas.  Woody Guthrie is a great inspiration to many\nlater artists that fight for civil liberties. \nFeminists are also still fighting today, what they had to fight in the\n1930s.  Gender norms are being changed,\nand workplaces are being filled with women, rather than just men.  Women are no longer just stay at home moms,\nbut rather they create their own businesses and careers, which seems to be a\nlogical progression from what the feminists fought for back in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Algorithms aren\u2019t perfect, and scholars have been criticizing them for being too broad or biased to be relied upon as much as we do today.\u00a0 Cathy O\u2019Neill mentions that algorithms can be described as \u201cOpinions imbedded in math\u201d. Due to this, opinions that are different to the one who wrote the algorithm or control the … Continue reading “Critical DH”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}