Definitely Not The Ivory Tower
Definitely Not The Ivory Tower
Podcast Description
Does the world around you have you scratching your head right now? Wanting to know more? Desiring to unlock the mysteries that surround us. Maybe you feel that traditional research journals are too dense, too full of jargon. Then this podcast is for you.
Definitely Not The Ivory Tower highlights the emergent research of professors and students at Mount Royal University whose research is making real change in the world around us. And we’re going to have some fun while doing it!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on significant themes surrounding emergent research, nature-based healing, mental well-being, and community engagement. For example, episodes explore topics such as the impact of nature on mental health, narrative-based healing practices, and the importance of grief in understanding communities. Key areas include eco-therapy, nature connectedness, and the effects of community health initiatives.
Does the world around you have you scratching your head right now? Wanting to know more? Desiring to unlock the mysteries that surround us. Maybe you feel that traditional research journals are too dense, too full of jargon. Then this podcast is for you.
Definitely Not The Ivory Tower highlights the emergent research of professors and students at Mount Royal University whose research is making real change in the world around us. And we’re going to have some fun while doing it!
Resources
- Gina Neff & Peter Nagy – Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians.
- Luddites
- Lawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringement
- Billy Perrigo – OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
- Nick Couldry & Ulises Ali Mejias – The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
- Google claims Smart Compose saves 2 billion characters from being typed each week – Details from a 2018 Founder’s Letter
- Johanna Drucker – Performative Materiality
- Ronald Deibert– Reset: Reclaiming the internet for civil society
- ChatGPT water consumption
- Water Scarcity – United Nations
- Mel Hogan – Data Flows and Water Woes
- Anatomy of an AI System
- Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh & Andrew McCallum – Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP. Quantifying the emissions cost of training an AI model
Discussion Segments
- 1:36: Introduction
- 3:27: Pracademic vs. Changemaker
- 6:36: Research Impact
- 9:28: Personal relationship with AI
- 12:45: How big tech markets their AI products
- 16:30: AI & Accountability
- 18:15: How AI is perceived by the public
- 25:30 Consequences of AI
- 29:12 AI and Climate Change
- 38:55 Maren Walker intro
- 39:30 How a student uses AI
- 41:07: Researching AI for school
- 46:50: Automation vs. Augmentation
Crystal Chokshi’s Research
- Chokshi, C. (2021). In other words: Smart Compose and the consequences of writing in the age of AI. Culture Machine, 20. https://culturemachine.net/vol-20-machine-intelligences/in-other-words-smart-compose-and-the-consequences-of-writing-in-the-age-of-ai-crystal-chokshi/
- Chokshi, C. (2024). X-gram and/as techsposure: Spelling out the climate consequences of generative AI. Journal of Digital Social Research, 6(4), 118-133. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i440480
- Chokshi, C., & Mansell, R.E. [Eds.] (forthcoming). The need to rename tech. Palgrave Macmillan. (This book explores words that fool us into thinking the digital technologies we use every day are beautiful, benign, and consequence-free)
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