Welcome to the first podcast of this CAISS initiative to broaden awareness of Computational Social Science components.
This episode, Dr Matthew Asher of CAISS at Lancaster university talks about the definitions of Computational Social Science (CSS) and the breadth of subject it can encompass.
References in this podcast:
- Lazer, et al., Social science. Computational social science. Science (New York, NY) 323, 721–723 (2009).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_social_science
- Dressel, J., & Farid, H. (2018). The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism. Science advances, 4(1), eaao5580.
- Dastin, J. (2018). Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women. UK Reuters, 10.10.2018.
- Dastin, J. (2022). Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women. In Ethics of data and analytics (pp. 296-299). Auerbach Publications. Alternate Link
- Job hunting for neurodivergent people: “AI recruitment means I’ve got zero chance.” BBC.co.uk.
Transcript:CAISSnotes_ep1_transcript.pdf