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#Anthropology roundup: W.E.B. Du Bois’ hand-drawn infographics…

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W.E.B. Du Bois’ hand-drawn infographics from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” kottke.org by Jason Kottke   W.E.B. Du Bois was an American author, sociologist, historian, and activist. Apparently Du Bois was also a designer and design director of some talent as these hand-drawn infographics show. White nationalists seem to have manipulated Google search results for ‘Boasian … Read more

#Cyberculture agenda: New Pew Research- “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age

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Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports by Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech   (filistimlyanin/iStock.com)Algorithms are instructions for solving a problem or completing a task. Recipes are algorithms, as are math equations. Computer code is algorithmic. The internet runs on algorithms and all online searching is accomplished through … Read more