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View article: AI competitions as infrastructures of power in medical imaging
AI competitions as infrastructures of power in medical imaging Open
This article examines how platform-based AI competitions structure power relations in medical imaging research. It focuses on two leading platforms, Kaggle and Grand Challenge, which provide organisational as well as infrastructural suppor…
View article: Using deep learning to analyse the times of the UN Security Council
Using deep learning to analyse the times of the UN Security Council Open
This article analyses how digital humanities scholarship can make use of recent advances in deep learning to analyse the temporal relations in an online textual archive. We use transfer learning as well as data augmentation techniques to i…
View article: Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving
Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving Open
Archives have long been a key concern of academic debates about truth, memory, recording and power and are important sites for social sciences and humanities research. This has been the case for traditional archives, but these debates have…
View article: Making Data Visualizations, Contesting Security: Digital Humanities Meet International Relations
Making Data Visualizations, Contesting Security: Digital Humanities Meet International Relations Open
This article brings debates about data visualization in digital humanities in conversation with critical security studies and international relations. Building on feminist approaches in digital humanities, we explore the potential and limi…
View article: EHRI-PP_D4.4_Report on European outreach and negotiation with funders
EHRI-PP_D4.4_Report on European outreach and negotiation with funders Open
This deliverable reports on the work of WP4 to support the creation of EHRI national nodes and to secure their funding from M19 until M42, the end of the EHRI-PP project. It provides information about the efforts to expand the number of c…
View article: An open educational resource to introduce data analysis in Python for the Humanities
An open educational resource to introduce data analysis in Python for the Humanities Open
The article presents an open educational resource (OER) to introduce humanities students to data analysis with Python. The article beings with positioning the OER within wider pedagogical debates in the digital humanities. The OER is built…
View article: AI COMPETITIONS AS INFRASTRUCTURES: EXAMINING POWER RELATIONS ON KAGGLE AND GRAND CHALLENGE IN AI-DRIVEN MEDICAL IMAGING
AI COMPETITIONS AS INFRASTRUCTURES: EXAMINING POWER RELATIONS ON KAGGLE AND GRAND CHALLENGE IN AI-DRIVEN MEDICAL IMAGING Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly being taken-up across scientific disciplines, medical imaging is no exception. To stimulate development and facilitate the scientific evaluation of new approaches, AI-based research in medical imagin…
View article: A global taxonomy of interpretable AI: unifying the terminology for the technical and social sciences
A global taxonomy of interpretable AI: unifying the terminology for the technical and social sciences Open
Since its emergence in the 1960s, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown to conquer many technology products and their fields of application. Machine learning, as a major part of the current AI solutions, can learn from the data and throug…
View article: An Analytics of Culture: Modeling Subjectivity, Scalability, Contextuality, and Temporality
An Analytics of Culture: Modeling Subjectivity, Scalability, Contextuality, and Temporality Open
There is a bidirectional relationship between culture and AI; AI models are increasingly used to analyse culture, thereby shaping our understanding of culture. On the other hand, the models are trained on collections of cultural artifacts …
View article: Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders
Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders Open
In 2020, the European Union announced the award of the contract for the biometric part of the new database for border control, the Entry Exit System, to two companies: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria. Both companies had been previously involved in…
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Copyright Page Open
Subject International Relations Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives
Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives Open
The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly applied both to scale traditional recordkeeping activities, and to …
View article: A network view on reliability: using machine learning to understand how we assess news websites
A network view on reliability: using machine learning to understand how we assess news websites Open
This article shows how a machine can employ a network view to reason about complex social relations of news reliability. Such a network view promises a topic-agnostic perspective that can be a useful hint on reliability trends and their he…
View article: Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives
Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives Open
The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly applied both to scale traditional recordkeeping activities, and to …
View article: Microscopic Views on a Global Pandemic: Social and Cultural Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic as Documented in Two Dutch Community Archives
Microscopic Views on a Global Pandemic: Social and Cultural Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic as Documented in Two Dutch Community Archives Open
The COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the obvious implications for public health and the economy at a global scale, has also had significant social and cultural effects: the partial or complete lockdown of public life breaks social and cul…
View article: Algorithmic Surveillance and the Political Life of Error
Algorithmic Surveillance and the Political Life of Error Open
Concerns with errors, mistakes, and inaccuracies have shaped political debates about what technologies do, where and how certain technologies can be used, and for which purposes. However, error has received scant attention in the emerging …
View article: Similarity Sampling by Machine Learning A Social Science Experiment with Artificial Intelligence and IPCC Leadership
Similarity Sampling by Machine Learning A Social Science Experiment with Artificial Intelligence and IPCC Leadership Open
In this paper, we devise a machine learning protocol to tackle a complex sociological task: extending a sample of organisational leaders starting from a list of individuals nominated for the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
View article: The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization
The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization Open
In this article, we add research on technical integration and dependency to the theories of platformization. Our research seeks to understand how platforms have been able to technically integrate themselves into the fabric of the mobile ec…
View article: Record linking in the EHRI portal
Record linking in the EHRI portal Open
Purpose This paper aims to describe the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project's ongoing efforts to virtually integrate trans-national archival sources via the reconstruction of collection provenance as it relates to cop…
View article: Computational genealogy: Continuities and discontinuities in the political rhetoric of US presidents
Computational genealogy: Continuities and discontinuities in the political rhetoric of US presidents Open
Articulations of discontinuity and moments of dissent have been central to critical historical work. However, such vocabularies and analyses of historical change have received less attention in the emerging field of digital methods. Digita…
View article: Acts of digital parasitism: Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation
Acts of digital parasitism: Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation Open
The opacity of digital technologies has posed significant challenges for critical research and digital methods. In response, controversy mapping, reverse engineering and hacking have been key methodological devices to grapple with opacity …
View article: Towards a quantitative research framework for historical disciplines
Towards a quantitative research framework for historical disciplines Open
The ever-expanding wealth of digital material that researchers have at their disposal today, coupled with growing computing power, makes the use of quantitative methods in historical disciplines in- creasingly more viable. However, applyin…