Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202643 min
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What does it mean to learn when algorithms increasingly shape how knowledge is produced, organized, and interpreted? Editors Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román join Shreya Urvashi to talk about their book Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions ( U Minnesota Press, 2026), a collection that examines how artificial intelligence and computational systems are changing education, cognition, and ideas of human intelligence. The editors discuss the complexities of algorithm, training data as curriculum, AI bias, and the concept of more-than-human learning. They also explore the relationship between contemporary technologies and colonial forms of reason, the limits of treating bias a...

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Pomona College is widely regarded as one of the world's leading liberal arts colleges. Located in Southern California, Pomona is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges. Working at Pomona combines a small college experience focused on undergraduate teaching with the advantages of a research university. Pomona is a small place with world-class faculty

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and staff alongside creative and intellectually ambitious students. Pomona is currently hiring tenure-track positions in computer science, politics with a specialty in race and ethnicity, environmental analysis, psychology, biology, English, and dance. Physical education is also hiring, and the Pomona College Scholar in Residence is also seeking a new pre-doctoral,

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post-doctoral fellow in the social sciences and humanities. For detailed information about faculty employment opportunities, visit pomona.edu and search faculty positions. That's pomona.edu and just search faculty positions. Pomona College is one of the best colleges in the world. If you're looking for a new position, go and take a look at their offerings. Again,

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