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Command Lines: Digital Labor and its Discontents

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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Session C1: Digital Labor and its Discontents
Command Lines: Software, Power & Performance
March 18-19, 2017
Computer History Museum

“Seeing Like an Algorithm: Machine Learning and the New Division of Apperceptive Labor”
Thomas Krendl Gilbert
Ph.D. Student, Program in Machine Ethics and Epistemology, University of California, Berkeley

“PEBDAC Error: Problem Exists Between Desk and Chair”
Shari Wolk
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

“Algorithm Maintainers’ Dilemma: When Each Search Query, Hidden labor, and Up-to-the-Minute Trending News Cause the Public to Fail”
Yoehan Oh
Master’s Student, History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University

‘Digital Taylorism’: Working with Process Management Systems in Comparison to Management Practices in Taylor’s Scientific Management
Eva-Maria Raffetseder
Ph.D. Candidate, Post/Doc Lab Digital Media , Technical University Munich

Chaired by Nathan Ensmenger
Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

Command Lines was a conference of the Society for the History of Technology (http://www.historyoftechnology.org/)’s Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (http://www.sigcis.org/). It was sponsored and hosted by the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/)’s Center for Software History (http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory).

Lot number: X8133.2017
Catalog number: 102740150

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