Orestis Papakyriakopoulos and Arwa Michelle Mboya, article co-authors, performed a socio-computational interrogation of the google search by image algorithm, a main component of the google search engine. By drawing from Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, they treated the algorithm as a subject that was shaped (trained) by a specific culture and hence produces and reproduces the conditions of its creation. In this way, the algorithm functioned as a window for understanding the attitudes of its designers, owners, and the ones existing in the dataset it was trained on.
The co-authors learned from the algorithm by presenting it with more than 40 thousands faces of all ages and more than four races (prompts) and collecting and analyzing the assigned labels (responses) with the appropriate statistical tools. In this way, the co-authors uncovered a small portion of the algorithm’s beliefs, values, knowledge and skills, and used its visual understanding of humans and their appeara
Anastasios Doulamis, professor at the National Technical University of Athens,
is creating digital 3D dance recordings to preserve traditional Greek dance cultures threated with extinction. He tells Horizon why this approach is vital for conserving endangered dances – as well as enabling people to better learn and study popular styles.
Greece has thousands of different dances, and each region has its own styles. We dance a lot at summer festivals, weddings and baptisms. Traditional dances are very popular among the young (as well as the old).
At important ceremonies like weddings, people want to express their feelings using traditional Greek dances rather than the dances of another country. I love their rhythm, and the melody and lyrics of the songs which accompany them. Especially the lyrics, which use the power of the Greek language to convey a lot using very few words.
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