Sense & Scale

A site to explore cultures, cities, and computing at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.

Contact: see syllabi

Author: arlduc

  • Contents Overview What does diversity mean in the context of the United States? How does diversity, equity, inclusion, representation and belonging impact the way that technology is designed, developed and scaled in the United States? As generative artificial intelligence has grown into a ubiquitous technology, how might it impact —…

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  • Summer 2024Prof. Ar Ducao, arlduc [at] nyu.eduTuesdays, 12:15-3:15 PMWallkill State Correctional Facility  Overview ?️ ? This course will prepare students to write basic software and web pages, and it will introduce a full foundation of computer science and design coding concepts that can be applied to many kinds of technical…

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  • Ideal Scenario We’re able to install new software in the lab during the spring, then we’ll be ready for CS in the summer. New software: New Books: Bonus: Blender “Donut” Tutorial Videos Less Ideal Scenario We’re not able to install new software. In this case, we would go with the…

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  • Long announcements, short agenda! Announcements News and ideas Class Announcements Agenda Assignments ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

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  • Announcements News: NYC Lawmakers Seek Ban on Facial Scans to Identify Customers (Bloomberg Law) Agenda Assignments

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  • Announcements Update to NYC Human Rights law: protections against height and weight discrimination Final assignments (drafts, peer review, presentation), word count, and extra credit have been added (in purple font) to the Final Gradesheet template. For feedback or guidance on your draft, reminder that you can schedule office hours with…

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  • Announcements Microaggressions as mosquito bites (Fusion Comedy Video)Microaggressions Research Papers and More Good example of a brief, relevant positionality statement in a scholarly article: see this research article by Sue Lockyer, starting at the bottom of page 8. New items in the “Gender & Sexuality” and “Socioeconomic Status” sections of D&T…

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  • This University of Maryland Libraries’ Research Guide on Citation Justice links to a Github repository of Python code to “probabilistically assign gender and race proportions of first/last authors pairs in bibliography entries.” Completing all the steps below can earn you additional points on your final grade; please see this semester’s…

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  • Announcements Agenda Assignments Required: Go through your peers comments to revise/update your paper. We’ll do Round #2 of peer review next week, in different groups. Required: Add relevant a news item to D&T News Items 2023. Optional: Complete the Timed Exercise for 11/29, due Saturday night. For this exercise, you’ll need…

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  • Announcements Citation Justice (related to this recent NYU Libraries course). Reviewing this research guide will help with the “balance of voices” Cultural Competence line item in the final grade sheet. Class on Wednesday (11/29) will be on Zoom. I’ll put the Zoom link on Brightspace after class. You don’t have…

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