Dan Bouk

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Beware the ChatBot, or Musings on a Modern Prometheus

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A few weeks ago a mentor and friend asked me how I planned to address ChatGPT, or how we as faculty ought to engage with this technology as we try to prepare our students to be scholars and thinkers in a world where it exists. This is my sort of question: so far my entire scholarly career has been devoted to trying to understand how corporations, states, and the expe Read more of this blog post »
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Published on August 17, 2023 08:47
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A vital story! Even a hopeful one, about how it's possible to resist the forces that try to tear down our shared public goods! Written with a voice that is as inviting and fun as it is smart and sophisticated, I ate this book up. ...more
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“Douglass's story reminds us that names are things we use, as well as things that others use to grasp and hold on to a sense of us. Names don't spring forth fully formed from the platonic ideal of our identities. Names are social technologies, built and negotiated through extensive social systems.”
Dan Bouk, Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

“The decisions the census informed -- in war or peace -- could not overcome the limits of the society the data described. Democracy's data is only as good as the democracy it serves.”
Dan Bouk, Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
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