Comments on: the real face of white australia http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/ working for the triumph of content over form, ideas over control, people over systems Fri, 03 Nov 2017 05:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.17 By: @armchair_caver http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-412671 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 03:56:34 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-412671 @cms_ Collection discovery via face detection: http://t.co/SH3oBVluHz #MWA015

]]> By: Week 5: Racial Profiling and ChartJunk | DH101: Fall 2014 http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-89950 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:26:22 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-89950 […] “The Real Face of White Australians,” takes a look at the struggles of non-Europeans who dealt with harsh racism in Australia. Today, I would like to think we live in a place that’s a bit more accepting, but this article got me thinking about the college admissions process and its association with race. Thinking back to filling out college apps around this time two years ago, certain schools only allowed one box to be checked in the ‘ethnicity’ part of their application. Coming from a French dad and a Filipino mom, I found myself a bit confused on how to pick which race to claim an association with. I would do some quick research on the school demographic to see where I could possibly fit into a minority, and ‘Pacific Islander’ emerged as my go-to option. I felt that these online checkboxes were too binding, and portrayed a stigma of racial categorization. As we’ve discussed in class, computers are not fully able to grasp ‘human’ concepts such as race, shown by the inadequacies of the facial detection script from the article. All structures have their imperfections though, and it would be an intriguing argument to see how human intervention would fair in this system. (link 1 + link 2) […]

]]> By: @mistydemeo http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-2432 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:09:48 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-2432 “the real face of white australia” is one of my favourite digital humanities projects of all time. http://t.co/zunlyxlgip

]]> By: @tjowens http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-2427 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:34:18 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-2427 “Real Face of White Australia” http://t.co/Wc9GaZ3dB4 IMHO Biggest pay off of facial recognition for archives. from @wragge #radtech14

]]> By: @mlascarides http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-143 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:58:28 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-143 @manovich: I know that @wragge and @fogonwater are great things with it, such as http://t.co/5XvFziwj

]]> By: discontents - Archives of emotion http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-142 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:11:53 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-142 […] original post was republished in South Africa, my NDF talk made it into the inaugural edition of the Journal of […]

]]> By: ?Chris Adams? (@acdha) http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-141 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:28:42 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-141 Interesting archive face recognition work: http://t.co/G4MzU6Zk

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]]> By: Chris McDowall (@fogonwater) http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-140 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:44:57 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-140 Messing about with the OpenCV face extraction scripts @wragge wrote for the Invisible Australians project. It’s fun! http://t.co/mOXo2FZE

]]> By: discontents - It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power and people http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-139 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:52:08 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-139 […] real face of White Australia’ is an experiment. It uses facial detection to technology to find and extract the photographs from digital copies of […]

]]> By: A Walk with Love and Data « Quædam cuiusdam http://discontents.com.au/the-real-face-of-white-australia/#comment-138 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:23:15 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1323#comment-138 […] in the “Real Face of White Australia” project, which I read about a couple of weeks ago on Tim Sherratt’s blog (note to future Access organizers: get this guy!) It starts from scans of immigration documents for […]

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