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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Breaking into Binaries: Exploring AI’s Constructions of Women and Feminist Perspectives on AI Interaction

Publication Date
2024-April-28
Authors
Muldowney, Priya
Department or Program
Computer Science
Women, Feminist and Queer Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Gender biases entrenched within artificial intelligence (AI) models have the potential to build upon and worsen the conceptualizations of women and reinforce misogynistic power structures. This happens through the biased datasets that are used to train AI, the feminization and...

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Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Shui, Yuhan
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...

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