Readings Due: 

• Brown, Nicole M., et al. “In Search of Zora/When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women Through Statistical Modeling.” Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 19, no. 3/4, July 2019, pp. 141–62. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2019.1652967. 

   Note: You will need to log into the Mina Rees Library to access this reading. It is available in a PDF that you can download from the library’s portal. 

  Also, read through the HathiTrust case study that describes how the research team did the project: https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/How+they+did+it+-+In+Search+of+Zora 
• Koolen, Corina and Andreas van Cranenburgh. “These are not the Stereotypes You are Looking For: Bias and Fairness in Authorial Gender Attribution.” Proceedings of the First Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics. Valencia, Spain. 4/4/2017, 19-29. [PDF in Commons] https://research.rug.nl/files/110455538/W17_1602.pdf 
• D’Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren Klein. “What Gets Counted Counts.” Data Feminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/h1w0nbqp/release/2?readingCollection=0cd867ef 

Notebook Activity: 

• Week Eight Notebook: Working with data from APIs: https://github.com/lmrhody/femethodsS23/blob/main/Week8_notebook.ipynb

Additional Resources: TBD

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