de.hypothesesThe first German cookbook authored by a woman was published in 1597: Entitled "Ein köstlich new Kochbuch", it was written by Anna Wecker and combined culinary instruction with medical advice, featuring endorsements from (male) medical experts 👇
Who keeps AI running? In Mexico, Carolina, Ricardo, and Laura perform the hidden labor that sustains our digital world. Their stories reveal how remote work promises flexibility - and delivers isolation and exhaustion.
Nahima Dávalos-Vázquez accompanied three remote workers in the #AI world and asks: Who has the right to be a body in this new era of work? ⬇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/60094
#Trafo #hypolingual #sociology #GlobalSouth #Technology #DigitalWork
Who Measures the Value of Work? Artificial Intelligence and the New Transnational Job Precarity
By Nahima Dávalos-Vázquez. Over the last decade, the expansion of outsourcing companies, commonly known as digital labor platforms or talent clouds, has transformed how work is distributed and managed in the Global South. I met and accompanied the faces, bodies, and exhaustion of three remote workers during fieldwork for a digital and sensory ethnography. I followed their everyday life and registered their bodily and emotional states. What does it mean to work, to inhabit, and to resist in this new transregional scenario?
Eight years after #MeToo swept the globe, sexual harassment laws in the US remain intact - but under Trump’s leadership, enforcement is hollowed out.
Nicole Colaianni traces how budget cuts, leadership shifts, and shifting priorities at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission echo Ronald Reagan’s tactics and leave victims without real recourse ⬇
Long before geography was established as an academic discipline, Johannes Justus Rein built his scholarly reputation through fieldwork in Japan. His strategic ties to the Perthes publishing house laid the foundations for his scientific standing - a relationship that became almost symbiotic.
Tobit Nauheim explores how such collaborations helped to forge global knowledge and establish geography as an academic discipline at German universities. ⬇
From Fieldwork in Japan to Print: The Reciprocal Relationship between Johannes Justus Rein and the Perthes Publishing House
On a winter morning in 1875, the geographer Johannes Justus Rein was staying at the German Legation in Tokyo. For over a year, Rein had been conducting field research in Japan under the auspices of a government-sponsored expedition. In a letter to August Petermann (10 January 1875), he outlined his plans for the scholarly evaluation of his fieldwork upon return...
"In a world of persuasive myths, a refutation must do more than correct facts—it must compete for attention, build understanding, and displace false beliefs with something more memorable."
@StefanTSiegel explains how to write effective refutations and bust myths ⬇
Not All Refutations Are Created Equal: Fight Myths Better with Refutation Rubrics
More myths, fortunately more refutations, unfortunately, not all of them are effective. In the (mis)information age and seductive myths abound, the art of debunking has never been more important. But how can educators, researchers, and students evaluate whether a refutation is actually sound? In this post, I describe the theoretical background, structure, and potentials of the tool "refutation rubrics" designed to evaluate the quality of refutations systematically and transparently.
Architect, Gardener, or Librarian: Which type of notetaker are you?
Just like there are no fixed types of learning styles (though the myth is still out there), maybe there isn't a fixed type of notetaker, either, writes Stefan Siegel at #NoteLab:
How to write a lot: Sarah Lang reviews Paul J. Silvia's book by the same title. Read her report for a summary - or trust her and read the whole book 📖!
https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/4041
#Pomodoro #AcademicWriting #APALifeTools #EnglishFridays #hypolingual
According to a UNESCO report from 2019, only 2.5% of vice-chancellors were women across sub-Saharan Africa, but 24% of academic staff. What can universities to do increase gender equality in leadership and to create a safe and creative working environment at universities across the African continent?
Susann Baller reports on insights from three speakers at the "Re-thinking the academic environment for increasing gender-balance and inclusion" conference 👇
Re-Thinking the Academic Environment for Increasing Gender-Balance and Inclusion: Roundtable Report
PDF version of this report This roundtable on “Re-thinking the academic environment for increasing gender-balance and inclusion” was organised on 29 May 2024 as part of the seventh Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop,...
.@SarahOberbichler arbeitet mit großen Datenmengen historischer Zeitungsartikel. Die Korpusbildung dafür nahm in der Vergangenheit oft mehr Arbeit ein als die wissenschaftliche Analyse. Das änderte sich mit der #generativeAI und der Möglichkeit, #LLM für Textextraktion und Artikelseparation zu nutzen.
Wie das konkret aussehen kann, erklärt sie hier:
https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/4938 (auf Englisch, via @DHLab_IEG)
Large-Scale Research with Historical Newspapers: A Turning Point through Generative AI
by Sarah Oberbichler Digitized historical newspapers have been a crucial source for my research over the past decade. Exactly ten years ago, in 2014, I began my research journey with historical newspapers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Using a semi-automated multilingual approach to analyze a corpus of over 20,000 articles from German and … „Large-Scale Research with Historical Newspapers: A Turning Point through Generative AI“ weiterlesen
#Obsidian can be used to convert terms, phrases or entire sentences into placeholder links. Read @davidlohner's article to find out how you can use the Dataview plugin to find all placeholders of which you might otherwise lose sight 👇
