Author: Alexa Alice Joubin

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The Craft of Writing in the Age of AI
ByAlexa Alice Joubin March 7, 2024March 7, 2024

Generative AI tools stake claims to anonymized, collective authorship through machine-generated texts that are similar to patterns in the datasets they trained on. The notion of authorship faces new challenges of delineating the agency, knowability, and intentionality of written words. Led by Alexa Alice Joubin (English and Digital Humanities Institute) and Kylie Quave (University Writing Program and Anthropology), this session explores our society’s evolving relationship to written words and the future of the craft of writing.

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AI and Religion
ByAlexa Alice Joubin March 7, 2024March 7, 2024

There are cases of AI monks and priests. Though religious institutions have not always behaved ethically in the past, they have centuries of experience parsing moral conundrums through the lens of their own belief systems. Prof. Irene Oh from the GW Department of Religion will lead a discussion of the many ways that artificial intelligence is changing the meaning and practice of religion.

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Generative AI from Performance Studies Perspectives
ByAlexa Alice Joubin September 4, 2023September 4, 2023

What is missing from the current debate are insights from performance studies. Since ChatGPT remixes statistically most likely combinations of words, its outputs are in fact a form of theatrical performance. It draws on users’ prompts and the publics’ collective memories to produce improvised performances, within specific parameters, for its user-audiences.

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Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory
ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”

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Creating Open Education Resources
ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

Faculty Perspectives: Creating Open Education Resources Wednesday April 12, 2023, 1 pm eastern time Zoom link at: https://open.wrlc.org/events/wed-04122023-1300 Alexa Alice Joubin, author of the open-access Screening Shakespeare, https://screenshakespeare.org/, will share how she created the textbook. Open Education Resources (OER) for higher education have made significant progress over the last few decades. Textbook affordability continues…

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Joubin Receives the bell hooks Legacy Award
ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books….

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I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities
ByAlexa Alice Joubin March 27, 2023April 5, 2023

Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as: What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical? In this symposium, we hope to open a discussion on the philosophical, ethical, political, and cultural, challenges that A.I. poses for our society.

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AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!
ByAlexa Alice Joubin January 3, 2023January 31, 2023

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin recently spoke at a roundtable on artificial intelligence and higher education. Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin embraces instructional AI in her classroom From AI that write papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on…

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Co-Director Receives Two Awards
ByAlexa Alice Joubin November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.

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Digital Tools for Openness
ByAlexa Alice Joubin September 8, 2022September 19, 2022

Alexa Alice Joubin will be speaking at the 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day to address openly-licensed digital tools that foster inclusiveness in the classroom. The event takes place in Gelman Library Room 218A at 1:15 pm on October 6, 2022. Here is the poster. There are multiple ways to facilitate…

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