Critical Technical Awakenings
作者机构：the School of Social WorkMcGill UniversityMontréalH3A 0G4Canada the Institute in Critical QuantitativeComputational&Mixed MethodologiesJohns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreMD 21218USA
出 版 物：《Journal of Social Computing》 (社会计算（英文）)
年 卷 期：2021年第2卷第4期
页 面：365-384页
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学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题：critical technical practice critical consciousness perspective transformation education machine learning
摘 要：Starting with Philip ***’s 1997 essay on“critical technical practice,we consider examples of writings from computer science where authors describe“waking upfrom a previously narrow technical approach to the world,enabling them to recognize how their previous efforts towards social change had been *** use these examples first to talk about the underlying assumptions of a technology-centric approach to social problems,and second to theorize these awakenings in terms of Paulo Freire’s idea of critical ***,understanding these awakenings among technical practitioners as examples of this more general phenomenon gives guidance for how we might encourage and guide critical awakenings in order to get more technologists working effectively towards positive social change.
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