Kate Richards
Week 14: How Do We Make Good Public-Facing Digital Projects? As our class builds our public-facing digital projects, we each are working on how we can address the ethical questions that arise when working with data. For this week’s readings, Tahu Kukutai and John Taylor write about Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Sasha Costanza-Chock writes about […]
Week 7 – Power and Quantification A central concept in Poovey’s essay that we discussed in class was representative technology. Representative technology is another way of describing data or gathering information. As we talked about using technology as a tool, it reminded me of a reading from my other class, Langdon Winner’s “Do Artifacts Have […]
Week 5: Data and Slavery Sven Beckert’s “Emancipation and Empire” describes the global reconstruction of the cotton industry around the American Civil War. I was struck by this reading, as it expanded my knowledge even more beyond last week’s reading, “Cotton Comes to Harvard.” It detailed the interconnection between not just the American North and […]
Week 4 – Slavery and Money at Bates I thought “Cotton Comes to Harvard” was another interesting inspection of the deep interconnection between the North and South in slavery, manufacturing, and higher education. I never would have associated esteemed schools like Harvard with slavery. As I’ve grown up and gone to school in a northern […]
Week 2 – Nineteenth-century contexts I thought “The Cotton Revolution” was an informative deeper dive into a topic which I felt I had a surface level understanding of — there was slavery in the South, slaves picked crops like cotton, slavery was very ingrained in southern culture. This essay described how everything was so much […]
