There is a blind spot in AI research

K Crawford, R Calo - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Kate Crawford … Fears about the future impacts of artificial intelligence are distracting
researchers from the real risks of deployed systems, argue Kate Crawford and Ryan Calo …

Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon

D Boyd, K Crawford - Information, communication & society, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians,
political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and other scholars are clamoring for …

Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability

M Ananny, K Crawford - new media & society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals
and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able …

[PDF][PDF] Big Data| critiquing Big Data: Politics, ethics, epistemology| special section introduction

K Crawford, ML Gray, K Miltner - International Journal of Communication, 2014 - ijoc.org
Why now? This is the first question we might ask of the big data phenomenon. Why has it
gained such remarkable purchase in a range of industries and across academia, at this point in …

Excavating AI: The politics of images in machine learning training sets

K Crawford, T Paglen - Ai & Society, 2021 - Springer
By looking at the politics of classification within machine learning systems, this article
demonstrates why the automated interpretation of images is an inherently social and political …

Can an algorithm be agonistic? Ten scenes from life in calculated publics

K Crawford - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores how political theory may help us map algorithmic logics against different
visions of the political. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s theories of agonistic pluralism, this …

Datasheets for datasets

…, JW Vaughan, H Wallach, HD Iii, K Crawford - Communications of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… BY TIMNIT GEBRU, JAMIE MORGENSTERN, BRIANA VECCHIONE, JENNIFER
WORTMAN VAUGHAN, HANNA WALLACH, HAL DAUMÉ III, AND KATE CRAWFORD …

Six provocations for big data

D Boyd, K Crawford - A decade in internet time: Symposium on the …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians,
political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for …

Following you: Disciplines of listening in social media

K Crawford - Continuum, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This paper develops the concept of listening as a metaphor for paying attention online.
Pejorative terms such as ‘lurking’ have failed to capture much detail about the experience of …