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Launch @ MIT</span><br class="">
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</font><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Description:</span><br class="">
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</font><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us on Zoom to celebrate
the launch of the book </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uncertain
Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
(MIT Press, 2021) with editors Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Kristin Veel. </span><br class="">
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</font><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Os Keyes, "(Mis)gendering"</span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Boaz Levin & Vera Tollmann, "Proxies" (with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun)</span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Romi Ron Morrison, "Flesh"</span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jacque Wernimont, "Quantification"</span><br class="">
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</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uncertain
Archives</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, scholars from
the social sciences, STS, media and communications studies, and digital humanities analyze concepts relevant to critical studies of big data, arranged glossary style—from
</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">abuse</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
and </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aggregate</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
to </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">visualization</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
and </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vulnerability</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
They not only challenge conventional usage of such familiar terms as </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">prediction</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
and </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">objectivity</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
but also introduce unfamiliar ones such as </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">overfitting</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
and </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">copynorm</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
The contributors include a broad range of leading and agenda-setting scholars, including N. Katherine Hayles, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Johanna Drucker, Lisa Gitelman, Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts, and Nicole Starosielski.</span><br class="">
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</font><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning </span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society</span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">MIT Comparative Media Studies and Writing </span><br class="">
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