Browsing Program on Information Science, MIT Libraries by Issue Date
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The Public Mapping Project: How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting
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Practical approaches to big data privacy over time
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-02)Governments and businesses are increasingly collecting, analysing, and sharing detailed information about individuals over long periods of time. Vast quantities of data from new sources and novel methods for large-scale ... -
A Harm-Reduction Framework for Algorithmic Fairness
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-05)In this article, we recognize the profound effects that algorithmic decision making can have on people's lives and propose a harm-reduction framework for algorithmic fairness. We argue that any evaluation of algorithmic ... -
Improving Digital Experience Through Modeling the Human Experience The Resurgence of Virtual (and Augmented and Mixed) Reality
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-08)This chapter is designed generally to introduce information professionals and researchers to the topic of VR, to characterize its potential to enhance human experiences, and to identify the concepts that are critical to ... -
The Happiness-Energy Paradox: Energy Use is Unrelated to Subjective Well-Being
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-03)Earth’s per capita energy use continues to grow, despite technological advances and widespread calls for reduction in energy consumption. The negative environmental consequences are well known: resource depletion, pollution, ... -
Curation as “Interoperability With the Future”: Preserving Scholarly Research Software in Academic Libraries
(Wiley, 2019-05)This article considers the problem of preserving research software within the wider realm of digital curation, academic research libraries, and the scholarly record. We conducted a pilot study to understand the ecosystem ...
