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How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony

The Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive—but what are the ethical implications of “listening” to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm? In this book, Todd Presner explores how the digital humanities can provide both new insights and humanizing perspectives for Holocaust memory and history.

Presner suggests that it is possible to develop an “ethics of the algorithm” that mediates between the ethical demands of listening to individual testi

Ethics of the Algorithm

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 9/24/2024
    ISBN13: 9780691258966, 978-0691258966
    ISBN10: 0691258961

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony

    The Holocaust is one of the most documented—and now digitized—events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive—but what are the ethical implications of “listening” to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm? In this book, Todd Presner explores how the digital humanities can provide both new insights and humanizing perspectives for Holocaust memory and history.

    Presner suggests that it is possible to develop an “ethics of the algorithm” that mediates between the ethical demands of listening to individual testi

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