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Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.

How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?

The Romantic poets intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection with readers. Yohei Igarashi addresses this paradox by reimagining Romantic poetry as a response to the beginnings of the information age. Data collection, rampant connectivity, and efficient communication became powerful social norms during this period. The Connected Condition argues that poets responded to these developments by probing the underlying fantasy: the perfe...

This year, Emmanuel Olunkwa was named the editor of Pin-Up — and debuted his own playful yet minimalist designs.

How Different is Digitised Learning, Really? The repute of degree and institutions are not lost because of a shift in the mode of learning-teaching mode, they are lost because of poor teaching, irrespective of the mode employed. Neeta Dhuri, a teacher for hearing impaired students, takes an online speech therapy session of parents and students during the COVID-19 lockdown in Mumbai. Photo: PTI Education6 hours ago For over a year, the battle for effective pedagogies online has raged, and opinio...

Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India The book Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India, edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it. File photo of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collecting data from a citizen for Aadhar. Photo: Reuters. Tech06/Feb/2021 About a decade ago, the CEO of a data analytics firm I worked for in Bangalore vied for the d...

Quantifying human experiences leaves room for misconceptions.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Without President Donald Trumps tweets preserved and accessible in context, the story of his presidency cant be told, says media historian Lisa Gitelman. She explains that how we remember @realDonaldTrump will be key to understanding Americas recent history.Read Full Article »