Language: The Colonial and Imperial Difference

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She Blinded Me With Science from her website:   Anna/Everyday I am Anna Lauren Hoffmann, a scholar and writer working at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics. I am currently an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington. Before that, I worked as a postdoctoral scholar with the UC Berkeley School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. My work centers on issues in information, data, and ethics, with particular attention to the ways in which discourses, design, and uses of information technology can promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice. In particular, I am interested in how the standards and categories imposed on the world through data, information, and technological systems (or the ways we talk about them) can discriminate by supporting the development of self-respect for some and hindering its development for othe...

Global Language Justice Columbia University has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year Sawyer Seminar on “Global Language Justice” at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. This new initiative takes language justice as the humanistic equivalent of environmental justice and responds with a sense of urgency to the simultaneity of the rapid dwindling of linguistic diversity and endangered biodiversity.