Decolonizing Data, Information Disorder, Algorithmic Ethics, AI & the Future of Work, China’s Digital Civilization — Open call for book chapters for Vols 6–10 of the new Routledge short form book series, Algorithms and Society. Each volume, based on Routledge’s Focus format, will have 4–5 chapters. The volumes planned for 2022 are: Algorithmic Ethics Decolonizing Data China’s Digital Civilization

Deep Fakes: Algorithms and Society focuses on the use of artificial intelligence technologies to produce fictitious photorealistic audiovisual clips that are indistinguishable from traditional video media. For over a century, the indexical relationship of the photographic image, and its related media of film and video, to the scene of capture…

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type. Digital technologies…

Digital Totalitarianism: Algorithms and Society focuses on important challenges to democratic values posed by our computational regimes: policing the freedom of inquiry, risks to the personal autonomy of thought, NeoLiberal management of human creativity and the collapse of critical thinking with the social media fueled rise of conspiranoia. Digital networks…

Systemic Bias: Algorithms and Society looks at issues of computational bias in the contexts of cultural works, metaphors of magic and mathematics in tech culture, and workplace psychometrics. The output of computational models is directly tied not only to their inputs but to the relationships and assumptions embedded in their…

Privacy: Algorithms and Society focuses on encryption technologies and privacy debates in journalistic crypto-cultures, countersurveillance technologies, digital advertising and cellular location data. Important questions are raised such as: How much information will we be allowed to keep private through the use of encryption on our computational devices? What rights do…

a quick overview — Gestalt Parallels Auditory scene analysis can be thought of as gestalt psychology in the auditory, rather than visual, realm. You may recall from graphic design or UX theory the set of Gestalt principles, such as the ‘laws’ of Proximity, Similarity, Continuation, Closure, Common fate, Figure/Ground, Symmetry, Order, etc. …

An important concept in sound design is to put sounds into movement, i.e. expressing meaningful and effective — interesting, emotionally compelling, even experientially correct or physically accurate— change in the sound over time. The movement of sound amongst sounds, and sounds within a sound, is so common a concept that…

Technological Origins and Aesthetic Trajectories — The 1950s-60s At the start of this article, I want to quickly convince you that the general history of electronic music has a lot of relevance for sound design. Actually maybe you have already been convinced but in case not, here is some more background. All media richly cross-pollinate each other, a…