RT Book
T1 Ethics of the algorithm: digital humanities and Holocaust memory
A1 Presner, Todd Samuel 1972-
LA English
PP Princeton Oxford
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902516214
AB "The Holocaust is one of the most documented-and now digitized-events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive-but what are the ethical implications of "listening" to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm? In this book, Todd Presner explores how the digital humanities can provide both new insights and humanizing perspectives for Holocaust memory and history. Presner suggests that it is possible to develop an "ethics of the algorithm" that mediates between the ethical demands of listening to individual testimonies and the interpretative possibilities of computational methods. He delves into thousands of testimonies and witness accounts, focusing on the analysis of trauma, language, voice, genre, and the archive itself. Tracing the affordances of digital tools that range from early, proto-computational approaches to more recent uses of automatic speech recognition and natural language processing, Presner introduces readers to what may be the ultimate expression of these methods: AI-driven testimonies that use machine learning to process responses to questions, offering a user experience that seems to replicate an actual conversation with a Holocaust survivor. With Ethics of the Algorithm, Presner presents a digital humanities argument for how big data models and computational methods can be used to preserve and perpetuate cultural memory"-- Provided by publisher
AB "How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony. The Holocaust is one of the most documented-and now digitized-events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive-but what are the ethical implications of "listening" to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm? In this book, Todd Presner explores how the digital humanities can provide both new insights and humanizing perspectives for Holocaust memory and history. Presner suggests that it is possible to develop an "ethics of the algorithm" that mediates between the ethical demands of listening to individual testimonies and the interpretative possibilities of computational methods. He delves into thousands of testimonies and witness accounts, focusing on the analysis of trauma, language, voice, genre, and the archive itself. Tracing the affordances of digital tools that range from early, proto-computational approaches to more recent uses of automatic speech recognition and natural language processing, Presner introduces readers to what may be the ultimate expression of these methods: AI-driven testimonies that use machine learning to process responses to questions, offering a user experience that seems to replicate an actual conversation with a Holocaust survivor.With Ethics of the Algorithm, Presner presents a digital humanities argument for how big data models and computational methods can be used to preserve and perpetuate cultural memory"-- Provided by publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN D804.33
SN 9780691258980
K1 History : Data processing
K1 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Study and teaching
K1 Digital Humanities : Moral and ethical aspects
K1 Computer algorithms : Moral and ethical aspects
K1 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust
K1 HISTORY / Holocaust
K1 COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms
K1 datafication
K1 Digital Culture
K1 Digital Media
K1 digital technologies
K1 ethical computation
K1 Social Science / Media Studies
K1 humanistic data science
K1 Natural Language Processing
K1 survivor
K1 Testimony
K1 Todd Presner
K1 Virtual
K1 Witness
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
K1 Survivors
K1 Narrative
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research
K1 cultural analytics
K1 Archive
K1 algorithmic fabulation
K1 Triplets
K1 USC Shoah foundation
K1 Mala
K1 Big Data
K1 Visualization
K1 Algorithmic
K1 Auschwitz
K1 Bomba
K1 Child
K1 Clusters
K1 Corpus
K1 Cultural
K1 Database
K1 Death
K1 Digital
K1 Dimensions in Testimony (DiT)
K1 Distant
K1 Dutch
K1 Ethical
K1 Ethics
K1 Fortunoff
K1 Ghetto
K1 History
K1 Holocaust testimony
K1 Judgment
K1 Kimmelmann
K1 Labor
K1 AI
K1 Algorithm
K1 Data
K1 Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory
K1 Holocaust
K1 Human
K1 Jewish
K1 Jews
K1 Digital Humanities : Judenvernichtung : Oral history : Zeitzeuge : Kollektives Gedächtnis
DO 10.1515/9780691258980