The “It’s okay to use it to get started” story is fast becoming a trope in higher ed discourse on the relationship of AI commercial products like ChatGPT to research education. And it’s irritating the hell out of me. The story goes that it’s fine to use AI products in research to brainstorm ideas, refine…
As many others do, I generally use the initialism “AI” in my work to refer to the sociopolitical project by which the tech industry and its sponsors have, over the last few years in particular, sought to forcibly install, normalize, and make visible the presence of commercial technologies (themselves marketed under the generic banner of…
Are you teaching facilitating a workshop on AI literacy? Here’s a very rough outline for a workshop to help you decide on content and structure your lesson—though you may have to flesh it out a bit. Please do note that the repetitive language represents the use of a recognized pedagogical tactic within the field of…
Here are some important messages. These are messages from Industry and messages from educators and other Responsible Adults. These are messages for Industry, messages for educators and other Responsible Adults, and messages for The Youth. They are about your future. From Industry To educators and other Responsible Adults: AI is everywhere and AI is the…
This is a companion page for “On the Work of Critical Race Theory in the Library World,” the talk I’m giving on May 17, 2023 as the opening keynote to the Critical Pedagogy Symposium, which this year is focusing on Critical Race Theory. First, I mentioned the work of Wet’suwet’en land defenders and encouraged folks…
The following was written by Baharak Yousefi, Ebony Magnus, Yoonhee Lee, and me. It was originally sent as a response to a list-serv discussion on the requirement of an MLS, MLIS, or similar degree for entry into the profession and the impacts of this requirement on “equity, diversity, and inclusion.” Dear colleagues, We are writing…
This is a hastily-thrown-together companion page for the “The (Anti-Racist) Politics of Anti-Racism Research,” a presentation I’m giving as the CAPAL Research & Scholarship Committee’s 2nd Annual Lecture on Research and Scholarship on May 11, 2021. First, more information on and legal fund donation options for the 1492 Land Back Lane land reclamation camp I…
But let’s stop for a moment and remind ourselves what police violence looks like. Yes, it looks like assaults with batons, tasers, pepper spray. Yes, it looks like shootings, chokeholds, killings. But is it police brutality we oppose—or police violence?