Readings and Resources
Readings & resources
Critical AI
- “Generative AI exists because of the transformer”, Madhumita Murgia and the Financial Times Visual Storytelling Team. Financial Times, Sept. 12, 2023.
- “Editor’s introduction: Humanities in the Loop”, Lauren Goodlad, Critical AI 2023.
- “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models be Too Big?”, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. (FAccT 2021)
Mapping
Data
- Data Feminism, Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (MIT, 2020)
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- Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein.
- “Data Humanism: A Manifesto”, Giorgia Lupi (originally published in Print Mag, 2017).
- Hands-on Data Visualization, Jack Dougherty & Ilya Ilyankou, “Introduction” and “1. Choose Tools to Tell Your Story”
Digital Film Studies
- Lauren Tilton and Justin Wigard. “[Seeing Formalism or Formal Viewing: Computational Formalism for the Analysis of Visual Media Forms and Contexts.]”(https://culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1044/)” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 10, no. 3, Oct. 2025. https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.144827.
Critical Web Design
- Minicomp/inclusive design from a global perspective
- Alex Gil, “Design for Diversity: The Case of Ed”
- History of the web
- “The History of the Internet: The Missing Narratives”, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, Journal of Information Technology 28, pps 18-33 (2013)
- Environmental impact of the web
- “Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data,” Javier Cha and Ian M. Miller, Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities (MIT 2026).
- Digital Humanities and the Climate crisis: a manifesto
- Low-Tech Magazine: A solar-powered website
- Ideas of design
- Des4Dev: The Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit
- Daniela Rosener: Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
- Web accessibility
- Pablo Stanley, Designing for Accessibility is not that hard (UX Collective, 2018)
- Digital divide
- Digital Exhibit project workflows