4 papers
Data Repair
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana
This paper investigates data repair practices through a six-month-long ethnographic study in Bangladesh. Our interviews and field observations with data repairers and related stake…
Re-educating Educated Ones: A Case Study on Chakma Language Revitalization in Chittagong Hill Tracts
Avijoy Chakma, Adity Khisa, Soham Khisa +2
Indigenous languages face significant cultural oppression from official state languages, particularly in the Global South. We investigate the Bangladeshi Chakma language revitaliza…
Ghostcrafting AI: Under the Rug of Platform Labor
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Sharifa Sultana
Platform laborers play an indispensable yet hidden role in building and sustaining AI systems. Drawing on an eight-month ethnography of Bangladesh's platform labor industry and ins…
Digital Labor: Challenges, Ethical Insights, and Implications
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Sharifa Sultana
Digital workers on crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk, Appen, Clickworker, Prolific) play a crucial role in training and improving AI systems, yet they often fac…