Essays about: "technoscience studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words technoscience studies.

  1. 1. AI as Gatekeepers to the Job Market : A Critical Reading of; Performance, Bias, and Coded Gaze in Recruitment Chatbots

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Karin Victorin; [2021]
    Keywords : data feminism; digital discrimination; AI recruitment; chatbots; facial recognition; AFEA; hiring tools; feminist technoscience studies; intersectionality; coded gaze; hiring bots; social robots; performance; AI technology ethics; theatre and AI; Augusto Boal; posthumanism; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is AI recruitment chatbots, digital discrimination, and data feminism (D´Ignazio and F.Klein 2020), where I aim to critically analyze issues of bias in these types of human-machine interaction technologies. READ MORE

  3. 2. VIDEO GAME CREATION : Inhibitors and Enablers in Female Inclusion

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

    Author : Nadia V. Ruiz B.; [2019]
    Keywords : Video game industry; video game creation; female inclusion; feminist technoscience; toxic masculinity; game engines; inhibitors; enablers;

    Abstract : In 2012 and 2014, two hashtags, #1ReasonWhy and #GamerGate, exposed a highly sexist video game industry that was not welcoming female participation. This was affecting women working or wanting to work in it. READ MORE

  4. 3. Vision and visibility of women in technoscience : On the participation of women in the social imaginary of technoscience and popular media

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yvonne Margaret Parrey; [2019]
    Keywords : Woman question in science; the science question in feminism; technoscience; STEM; visibility; faceicity; affect; the gaze; BBC; European Commission; Science it’s a girl thing!; visagéité;

    Abstract : After situating my interest in issues of women’s participation in technoscience, starting withmy experiences in the 1970s, this thesis turns to consider women’s visibility in more recenttechnoscience, in the light of European Commission figures indicating a slower progressionfor women into the more prestigious positions in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineeringand Mathematics) than the Commission had hoped.Two media case studies are presented focusing on the visibility of women in the EuropeanUnion (including the United Kingdom). READ MORE

  5. 4. Into the Abyss™ : Toward an understanding of sexual technologies as co-actors in techno-social networks

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Anne Moyerbrailean; [2018]
    Keywords : Abyss Creations; Feminist Technoscience Studies; RealDoll; Sex Robots; Sexual Technologies;

    Abstract : Much has been written recently in mainstream media about sex robots. However, due to the recent developments in this area of robotic and AI technologies, few academics have critically addressed these humanoid sexual technologies through the frameworks provided by Feminist Technoscience Studies. READ MORE

  6. 5. Cyborg, How Queer Are You? Speculations on Technologically-Mediated Morality Towards Posthuman-Centered Design

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Sena Çerçi; [2018]
    Keywords : human-computer interaction; artificial intelligence; machine learning; paternalism; ethical decision-making; feminist technoscience studies; design fiction; speculative design;

    Abstract : This research deals with the highly-relevant issue of paternalism within the discipline and practice of HCI with a particular focus on the autonomous decision-making AI technologies. It is an attempt to reframe the problem of paternalism as a basis for posthuman-centered design, as the emerging technologies have already started to redefine autonomy, morality and therefore what it means to be a human. READ MORE