#4 Reboot the Future – Feminist Perspectives in Human Computer Interaction

Reading: Milagros Miceli, Martin Schuessler, Tianling Yang (2020): Between Subjectivity and Imposition: Power Dynamics in Data Annotation for Computer Vision

During past meetings, the participants of our colloquium requested that the topic of clickworkers be addressed. The renowned researcher Milagros Miceli is a recognised expert in this field. She leads the research group Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics at Weizenbaum-Institut and is a research fellow at the DAIR Institute. As a sociologist and computer scientist, she investigates the ethical and social implications of the development of AI, in particular data work. She examines the production of ground-truth data for machine learning with a particular focus on working conditions and power relations. For an interesting insight into the author’s way of thinking, we recommend the interview with her in the podcast ‘Purple Code – Intersectional feminist perspectives on digital societies’.