Description: "The Holocaust is one of the most documented--and now digitized--events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these testimonies one at a time. Computational methods could be used to analyze an entire archive--but what are the ethical implications of "listening" to Holocaust testimonies by means of an algorithm?"--
Review Quotes: "[A] must-read. . . . Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory honors the survivor, the collective memory of mass atrocity, and the potential we have to learn from it, redefining what ethical, digitally engaged Holocaust scholarship can be."---Alexis Lerner, Contemporary Jewry