Catherine D'Ignazio

2 months ago | medium.com | Catherine D'Ignazio

The Data + Feminism Lab uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice, particularly as they relate to space and place. Follow publicationThis text was originally published in Portuguese in June 2020 in Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil and can be accessed in its original version here. The past few years have been filled with raw emotion.

2 months ago | medium.com | Catherine D'Ignazio

The Data + Feminism Lab uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice, particularly as they relate to space and place. Follow publicationTransnational Data Activism and Feminist Movements in Latin America was an event organized by Art+Feminism and presented by Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, Post-Doctoral Associate at MIT’s Women’s and Gender Studies Department, with Michaela Blanc, Leadership Adviser at Art+Feminism. The following glossary was made for this event.

Dec 5, 2024 | media.mit.edu | Peter Dizikes |Catherine D'Ignazio |Sarah Beckmann

By Peter Dizikes | MIT NewsIt is fairly common in public discourse for someone to announce, “I brought data to this discussion,” thus casting their own conclusions as empirical and rational. It is less common to ask: Where did the data come from? How was it collected? Why is there data about some things but not others? MIT Associate Professor Catherine D’Ignazio SM ’14 does ask those kinds of questions.

Nov 17, 2024 | medium.com | Catherine D'Ignazio

Catherine D'Ignazio (she/ella)·FollowPublished inData + Feminism Lab, MIT·6 min read·--Cover of Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on Our Humanity. By Brandeis Hill Marshall. Hoboken,NJ: Wiley, 2022. xix + 352 pp. This book review was originally published in the journal Critical AI, Volume 2, Issue 1.

Oct 27, 2024 | visionscarto.net | Catherine D’Ignazio |Catherine D'Ignazio

MENU#methodology #visualization #cartography #critic #situated_knowledge #feminism #gender23 January 2017by Catherine D’IgnazioAssistant Prof of Data Visualization & Civic Media, Journalism Dept, Emerson College, Boston (USA) ; kanarinka.com. While there is a lot of hype about data visualization, and a lot of new tools for doing it (my colleague Rahul Bhargava and I have counted over 500!), fewer people are thinking critically about the politics and ethics of representation.