Uncovering the Humanities in Data Science | Meeting Street

What ideas and assumptions about human social life underlie data science and new media? How might scholars in and beyond the humanities work together to diagnose and respond to the algorithmic frameworks of digital culture, especially those that reinscribe or reinforce forms of division and discrimination? In this episode, host Amanda Anderson talks with media scholar Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, founding director of the innovative Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University.

00:00 Episode introduction
01:58 The “wonderfully creepy” new media
03:56 The Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser
07:22 The drive for authenticity
10:25 Data science and the humanities
16:56 Natural language processing
19:59 Discriminating Data
23:44 Psychology, new media, and big data