Part-Time Liberatory Tech RA
Job Description
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
The College of Engineering is seeking applicants for part-time job of Liberatory Tech RA for research on AI and Black Digital Archives.
Job duties to include:
- Work with Dr. Dancy and other members of the Liberatory Tech Project within the Center for Black Digital Research
- Perform work on projects that use a critical AI lens for research on human-AI systems with Black Digital Archives
- Work with graduate students currently in LibTech to develop critical, human-centered ways to interact with AI augmented data annotation tools for archives
- Use perspectives from Critical Black studies and the Black radical tradition to develop studies to understand how the conceptual underpinnings of Blackness may mediate behavior during human-AI interaction in particular digital archival annotation tools and the implications of this mediation for interface development
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