Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Amalia S. Levi, PhD
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The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Nice study that essentially corroborates Michel Rolph Trouillot's silencing framework.
The diagram embodies all silencing processes (fact creation/assembly/retrieval/retrospective significance), a bleak reminder on how power operates today.
On this #InternationalArchivesWeek I'd like to repost this absolute gem by the @bucksarchives.bsky.social!
Amalia S. Levi, PhD
Amalia S. Levi, PhD
For #InternationalArchivesWeek, consider how digitized copies of manuscripts can preserve access to a manuscript's contents, provide a record of ownership if the object is removed, and provide access to cultural heritage if a community is displaced.
Learn more: hmml.org/stories/reversal-of-fates
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Buckinghamshire Archives
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out
@nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output.
nature.com/articles/s41...
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
This data article about fugitive adverisements in eastern #Caribbean newspapers is the result of years of work by the team at @inthesamesea.bsky.social Read it at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... and find the dataset at enslaved.org - an open-access research resource!
