Who We Be Now? (with Abeba Berhane)

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Abeba Berhane, PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science joins the WBI show to discuss what it means to be human when we as deeply social and interdependent beings are atomized in our houses to shelter in due to COVID-19.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links for Episode:
Descartes was wrong: 'a person is a person through other persons'
Fair WarningRobot Rights? Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead

Recommendations:

Abeba Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin, Ubuntu: I in You and You and Me by Michael Battle, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World by Cal (Crystal)Biruk
Ilan The Uncomfortable - a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
Stanley Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk
Khadijah “Nothing But Death”: Inside the Nursing Home Where NYC's Most Vulnerable Struggle to Survive COVID-19 by Molly Schwartz

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ARTIST: MIR SUHAIL

Data Feminism and COVID19 Intersect (with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein)

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Catherine D’Ignazio, assistant professor at MIT and Lauren F. Klein, associate professor at Emory join WBI to discuss their recently published book Data Feminism. What does it look like to drop a book during a pandemic? Why does feminist data science matter now more than ever?

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Links for Episode: 

Gender Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)
Fact Check: Your Demand for Statistical Proof is Racist


Recommendations

Catherine #Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles
Lauren Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Stanley Nickelboys by Colson Whitehead
Ilan https://getwellsoon.labr.io
Khadijah The Young Entrepreneurs of Miss Bristol's Front Porch by Sidik Fofana

A Chance to Transgress (with Seda Gürses, Miryam Aouragh, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting)

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April 10th 2020: 4 radical feminist women join the WBI show to discuss their manifesto embedded in a Git Hub bug report. Do we accept the ultimatum of contact tracing apps-surveillance or staying home indefinitely? Can the 7pm pots and pans banging for health care workers become protests for public health?

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Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz

Guests: Seda Gürses, Miryam Aouragh, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting

Links for Episode: 

The Long Tail of Contact Tracing (GitHub Bug Report)

Recommendations

Helen Black. Feminist. Calculus. Meets. Nothing. to. Prove. A Mobile Homecoming Project Ritual by Alexis Pauline Gumbs 
Seda The Authoritarian Trade-Off by Jathan Sadowski
Miryam Kindred by Octavia Butler
Femke Variapad!
Ilan Tales from the Loop (TV Series 2020– )
Stanley Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Khadijah Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Can Foil COVID-19 & Big Brother, 

Distributing Blackness (with Andre Brock)

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If you open a hole in the internet, people will immediately fill it with s*** (with Sarah T. Roberts)

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Sarah T Roberts, assistant professor at UCLA and author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media joins WBI to discuss the implications of full automation of social media content moderation in light of the human infrastructure for the first time in history, sheltering in place and the inability to work due to COVID-19. 

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Minisode 2 - Quarantined as a Physician (with Mihir Parikh)

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Beth Israel Deaconess Pulmonologist, Dr. Mihir Parikh joins the WBI podcast to discuss the experience of his family being quarantined after his wife, Dr. Aparna Parikh tested positive for COVID-19. He also shares his analysis of why initial reports from international colleagues about the spread of the virus were not internalized and what to do moving forward. 

Artist: Mir Suhail

Artist: Mir Suhail

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman

Recommendations:

Mihir: Schitt’s Creek | PBS Kids

Policing the Pandemic (with Ali Winston)

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Minisode 1 - Will Clouds Fall? (with Ingrid Burrington)

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Surveillance Goes Viral (with Chris Gilliard and Jasmine McNealy)

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Chris Gilliard and Jasmine McNealy join the WBI team to discuss the privacy implications of surveillance enacted during COVID-19 containment measures and what it means for the world to rely on social media and Zoom video conferencing to mediate most relationships outside of their home.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman
Guests: Chris Gilliard and Jasmine McNealy

Links for Episode:
To Track Virus, Governments Weigh Surveillance Tools That Push Privacy Limits
Athena Claims Its AI Security Camera Platform Can Detect Coronavirus
Digital Humanity: Social Media Content Moderation and the Global Tech Workforce in the COVID-19 Era Sarah T. Roberts / University of California, Los Angeles
ZOOM PRIVACY POLICYTech’s ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail

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Recommendations:

Chris: Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah Roberts
Jasmine: Dark Matters by Simone Browne | Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World by Jason Sedowski | Kingdom Second Season
Khadijah: This Week In Virology (TWIV): A podcast about viruses | Atlanta TV Series

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