Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory

Author/Contributor(s):	Presner, Todd
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	09/24/2024
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"The Holocaust is one of the most documented--and now digitized--events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive--but what are the ethical implications of "listening" to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm?"--