In this conversation, Science Fiction Studies editor Veronica Hollinger speaks with Regina Kanyu Wang about the research behind her SFRA Award-winning essay, her use of “distant reading,” and the futures imagined by female Chinese science fiction writers.
Music and Data's guest editors Bob L. T. Sturm and Elin Kanhov discuss how AI Music Studies began, how the AI music landscape is changing, and what questions this emerging field must address.
Author Susanne YP Choi discusses her book and explains how queer lives have changed amid limited legal protections and intensified state restrictions in China.
Author Alberto McKelligan Hernández on how contemporary Mexican women artists are challenging state narratives of violence and creating art that imagines a more just and egalitarian Mexico.
Author Colin Rhinesmith on how community coalitions can reduce technological harms and inequality by building local power and advancing digital equity.
Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.