Episode 032: Curation vs Algorithms: Who Is Writing Our History? with Amy Unger




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amy Unger: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/cdwort"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@cdwort</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://www.heroku.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heroku</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “JIRA Card Catalogs and The People Who Love Them” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>01:05</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Superpower Origin Story, Growing Up with a Computer in the Family, and Being a Teenager</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-Press/dp/0262632691/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494455362&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Unlocking+The+Clubhouse+Women+in+Computer+Science"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher</span></a></p> <p><b>08:30 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Humanities and History</span></p> <p><b>10:39 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Access to and Preservation of Literacy (Who is writing our history?)</span></p> <p><b>15:03 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Categorizing Information and Making it Accessible…But, Also Privacy?</span></p> <p><b>17:21 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Reliance on Google as the “Defacto Archive”?</span></p> <p><b>19:49 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Digital Records (Algorithms) vs Human Curation</span></p> <p><b>24:10 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– What can librarians and library science offer a company?: Information Architecture</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>For sponsorship inquiries: please contact </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a></p> <p><b>27:32 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Algorithm Manipulation, Social Engineering, and Information Security</span></p> <p><b>32:24 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Whose stories are we collecting, archiving, and making available to the public?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tragedy of the Commons</span></a></p> <p><b>41:09 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– “Meme Hacking”, Getting Involved, and Owning Your Own Story</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!<br> </b><b>Get instant access to our Slack Channel!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Rein: </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <p><b>Sam: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">How economics and politics rear their ugly heads unexpectedly.</span></p> <p><b>Coraline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Who is responsible for our history? </span></p> <p><b>Jessica: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The vast amounts of data we have and what we choose to preserve.</span></p> <p><b>Amy: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consider the po</span></p>