Editors' Choice: How do we model stereotypes without stereotyping?

By: Victoria Svaikovsky

We recently put out a paper on how racial bias functions in Hollywood films. This work was based on a few studies that came before it, namely this one, from USC Annenberg. We presented numerical analyses like the number of characters in different racial and ethnic groups and the number of words spoken by these…

Editors' Choice: The Tate Uses Wikipedia for Artist Biographies, and I'm OK With It

By: Matthew Lincoln

Recently, several folks on Twitter have noted their displeasure that the Tate appears to be linking to Wikipedia articles in lieu of authoring their own written biographies of artists represented in their collections. The @Tate is now copying and pasting artist biographies from Wikipedia for catalogs. Nothing against Wikipedia; but this is a misguided strategy…

Editors' Choice: 'Making such bargain': Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced…

By: Tim Causer, Kris Grint, Anna-Maria Sichani, and Melissa Terras

We (Tim Causer, Kris Grint, Anna-Maria Sichani, and me!) have recently published an article in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities on the economics of crowdsourcing, reporting on the Transcribe Bentham project, which is formally published here: ‘Making such bargain’: Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription. Alack, due to our own economic…

Editors' Choice: Doing the work - Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation

By: Danielle Robichaud and Krista McCracken

Since its establishment in 2001, the English version of Wikipedia[1] has grown to host more than 5.6 million articles that reflect content ranging from culture and the arts to technology and the applied sciences. Consistently ranked as one of the top visited sites on the Internet, Wikipedia provides an open and freely accessible resource of…