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Item Hue, Intensity, Value(2017-01-01) Paul, Jaclin; Sharp, Sarah G.; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsMy theses exhibition, Sibling Portraits and this text, Hue, Intensity, Value, are the result of nine months of writing and three years of making art. I identify my three areas of focus: elements of design, face perception, and psychological essentialism. I examine how my practice of capturing and manipulating photographic portraits relates to photography'shistoric relationship with xenophobia and practices such as physiognomy and criminal atavism. I also contextualize the images I produced within contemporary discourses about intersectionality and the social construction of race. I produce images for three main reasons: 1. To study my and other'sbiological and sociological responses to the way people look including facial expressions, facial metrics and skin tone. 2. As an excuse to look at faces and enjoy their aesthetics. 3. To manipulate reality in order to disorient and entice my audience and myself. Sibling Portraits is a series of animations and still images that incorporate these three interests using my seven biological siblings. The body of work addresses aesthetic design, face perception and psychological essentialism by presenting the bodies, hands, voices and faces of my siblings for viewers to observe.Item Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore(Citizen Science Association, 2019-03-08) Sorensen, Amanda E.; Jordan, Rebecca C.; LaDeau, Shannon L.; Biehler, Dawn; Wilson, Sacoby; Pitas, John-Henry; Leisnham, Paul T.Citizen science (CS) has been an increasingly utilized means by which scientists leverage members of the public to increase the amount of data collected and analyzed. However, the underrepresentation of individuals from certain socio-cultural groups can have consequences that can manifest in the scientific outcomes of those CS projects such as biases in the data. Additionally, this underrepresentation can potentially affect long-term viability and support of CS as a community of practice. CS programs that promote greater inclusivity would likely provide opportunities for communities to define, investigate, and address pressing issues in collaboration with professional scientists. In this paper we discuss a CS project that sought to include underrepresented communities in Baltimore, Maryland using Pandyaās framework for inclusive CS. While the project met all of its scientific research goals, translating the CS for broader social outcomes in the community proved challenging. Here we highlight perspectives from local community members and research personnel about the barriers to CS engagement, challenges in translating scientific outcomes to social justice efforts, and opportunities to address these barriers in CS program development and design.Item Seymour In My Shoes: Challenging Invisible Power & Bringing Plurality of Voice to Children's Media(2021-02) Reed, Cody; Dornfeld, Barry; Gerhart, Heather; Morales, Selina; MA in Cultural SustainabilityThrough the summer of 2020, I worked with 16 Baltimore City high school students to create a pitch for a new kind of cultural learning show for kids. This project reflects on that work and examines how we can use the tools of audio/visual media to build capacity with local communities, open a wider platform for people to tell their own stories, and create a more human-centered learning for audiences to ultimately increase the representation of marginalized groups in the media.Item Unequal Representation and Gender Stereotypes in Image Search Results for Occupations(ACM, 2015-04-18) Kay, Matthew; Matuszek, Cynthia; Munson, Sean A.Information environments have the power to affect people's perceptions and behaviors. In this paper, we present the results of studies in which we characterize the gender bias present in image search results for a variety of occupations. We experimentally evaluate the effects of bias in image search results on the images people choose to represent those careers and on people's perceptions of the prevalence of men and women in each occupation. We find evidence for both stereotype exaggeration and systematic underrepresentation of women in search results. We also find that people rate search results higher when they are consistent with stereotypes for a career, and shifting the representation of gender in image search results can shift people's perceptions about real-world distributions. We also discuss tensions between desires for high-quality results and broader societal goals for equality of representation in this space.