Summary: How to correct, shift or expose harms in computational infrastructures?
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<!-- What are computational infrastructures? -->
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Title: Question 1: What are computational infrastructures?
Slug: 02-s2-question-1
Title: Introduction: Seda Gürses
Slug: 01-s2-introduction
Date: 2020-11-01 12:01
Summary: A video contribution by Seda Gürses.
Summary: Seda Gürses, computational infrastructures & *POTs (Protective Optimization Technologies)*
The work of Seda Gürses provides us with handles to XXX [unpack, look closer into, study, explore] computational infrastructures. Throughout her work she has questioned the notion of "fair" technologies, the limits of such practices and who is involved in reviewing their impact. An important factor in her work is to approach computational infrastructures as systems that are far more than a technological ecosystems alone.
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[^progammableinfrastructures]: Seda Gürses, Roel Dobbe, Martha Poon "Seminar on Programmable Infrastructures" (2020). <https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/programmable-infrastructures/>
[^titipi]: Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard "The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest" (accessed on 2020) <http://titipi.org/>
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