The logics of (digital) distortion

interactions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Safiya U. Noble
Keyword(s):  
Digital Distortion

Digital Distortion-Free PWM and Click Modulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Chierchie ◽  
Eduardo E. Paolini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Distortion

The IFFT-based SQM method against digital distortion in GNSS signals

GPS Solutions ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1457-1468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Sun ◽  
Hongbo Zhao ◽  
Chen Zhuang ◽  
Wenquan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Digital Distortion

Swapping Gender is a Snap(chat)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teddy Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Facial Hair ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Image Filters ◽  
Digital Distortion ◽  
Binary Gender

In May 2019 the photographic cellphone application Snapchat released two company-generated image filters that were officially dubbed “My Twin” and “My Other Twin,” though users and media labeled them as feminine and masculine, respectively. While touted in most commentary as a “gender swap” feature, these digital imaginaries represent a unique opportunity to consider what features contribute to classification of faces into binary gender buckets. After all, the commonly considered “male” filter makes various modifications—including a broader jaw and addition of facial hair—to whichever face is selected in the photograph. It does not ask and cannot detect if that face belongs to a man or woman (cis- or transgender) or to a non-binary individual. Instead, the augmented reality that it offers is a preprogrammed algorithmic reinscription of reductive gendered norms. When interacting with a novel face, humans similarly implement algorithms to assign a gender to that face. The Snapchat “My Twin” filters—which are not neutral, but rather human-designed—offer an analyzable projection of one such binarization, which is otherwise rarely articulated or visually recreated. Here I pair an ethnographic exploration of twenty-eight transgender, non-binary, and/or gender diverse individuals’ embodied experiences of facial gender legibility throughout life and with digital distortion, with a quantitative analysis of the “My Twin” filter facial distortions, to better understand the role of technology in reimaginations of who and what we see in the mirror.

Digital Distortion Through Co-creation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-297
Author(s):  
Amanda Smith ◽  
Rachelle Moore
Keyword(s):  
Digital Distortion
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