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SUMMARY:Reading Circle: AI + Feminism - Cyborg | Laura Forlano
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TITLE: Cyborg \nAUTHOR: Dr. Laura Forlano \nDESCRIPTION: (source: Bookshop.org) \n \nThis introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation\, robots\, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training\, teaching\, and research in the social sciences\, design\, and engineering education\, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender\, race\, and disability shape how technology is imagined\, developed\, used\, and resisted. \nForlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology in areas such as engineering and computing\, art and design\, and health care and medicine\, as well as the social sciences and humanities. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs—if we consider\, for instance\, the fact that we use daily technologies at work\, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications\, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists\, designers\, activists\, and creators. Lastly\, Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race\, feminist\, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century. \n  \nAUTHOR BIO:  \n  \n \nLaura Forlano is a Fulbright award-winning and National Science Foundation funded scholar\, is a disabled writer\, social scientist and design researcher. She is Professor in the departments of Art + Design and Communication Studies in the College of Arts\, Media\, and Design and Senior Fellow at The Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University. Forlano is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She received her Ph.D. in communications from Columbia University. \nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura4lano/  \nRELATED LINKS \n\nLinkedIn \nAuthor website \n[PDF] TechnoFeminism by Judy Wajcman \nInfrastructuring as Critical Feminist Technoscientific Practice – spheres\nFeminist Hacking/Making: Exploring new gender horizons of possibility » The Journal of Peer Production\nA New AI Lexicon: Smart – AI Now Institute\n\n 
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