Digital Content

Course Progression + Shifts

Shifting focus from Algorithmic Bias as a high-stakes, foundational issue in digital media systems to a wider focus on multiple systems of control.

• Identifying bias within these systems is more difficult, as the bias is more systemic and pervasive

• Systems have safeguards in place maintain control = perpetuate bias

• Media systems are part of this focus, and also inform and drive these other systems

• Media systems also provide access and decentralized authorship - opportunity space for control?

• The rhizome or entangled structure

identifying embedded bias + control points

Embedded bias harder to locate and identify - experience is key

4 Course Conditions

Our understanding + experience of the world is partially shaped and informed by the media we interact with, both in terms of content and form. “Media” includes books, newspapers, journals, magainzes + other written media and/or printed, theater + performance, music, film + television media, and, now digital media.

Inequalities exist, people recognize, express + experience inequalities in unequal ways.

Inequalities are perpetuated by systems + individuals.

There is a spectrum of difference + experience among inequalities. Inequalities are not equatable, but do intersect.