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

Published: May 11, 2017, midnight

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Amy Unger: @cdwort | Heroku

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00:16 \\u2013 Welcome to \\u201cJIRA Card Catalogs and The People Who Love Them\\u201d \\u2026we mean, \\u201cGreater Than Code!\\u201d

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01:05 \\u2013 Superpower Origin Story, Growing Up with a Computer in the Family, and Being a Teenager

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Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher

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08:30 \\u2013 Humanities and History

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10:39 \\u2013 Access to and Preservation of Literacy (Who is writing our history?)

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15:03 \\u2013 Categorizing Information and Making it Accessible\\u2026But, Also Privacy?

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17:21 \\u2013 Reliance on Google as the \\u201cDefacto Archive\\u201d?

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19:49 \\u2013 Digital Records (Algorithms) vs Human Curation

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24:10 \\u2013 What can librarians and library science offer a company?: Information Architecture

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27:32 \\u2013 Algorithm Manipulation, Social Engineering, and Information Security

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32:24 \\u2013 Whose stories are we collecting, archiving, and making available to the public?

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Tragedy of the Commons

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41:09 \\u2013 \\u201cMeme Hacking\\u201d, Getting Involved, and Owning Your Own Story

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Reflections:

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Rein: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

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Sam: How economics and politics rear their ugly heads unexpectedly.

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Coraline: Who is responsible for our history?

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Jessica: The vast amounts of data we have and what we choose to preserve.

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Amy: Consider the possibility of working in the public sector.

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