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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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Somewhere in Between and Nowhere to Be Seen: A Look into the Asian American Transracial Adoptee Experience through Educational Programming

Publication Date
2023-April-24
Authors
Wood, Sophia
Department or Program
Education Department
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Throughout the 1990s-2000s, the number of international adoptions into the United States increased drastically, reaching a little over 20,000 international adoptions in 2002 with 25% being from China and 9% from South Korea (PRB, 2003). As these adoptees begin to...

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