On Tuesday, April 23, in Catalunya, one of the most beloved popular holidays is celebrated: Sant Jordi's Day. On the occasion of the occasion, from the Xarxa Punt TIC, we wanted to prepare a collection of literary recommendations from the hand of several people linked to the Xarxa Punt TIC. The aim of the awareness campaign has been to vindicate technological issues and give visibility to the authors.
Below, you can consult some literary recommendations:
1. 'Artificial Intelligence: guide for thinking beings' by Melanie Mitchell.
Judith Membrives has given us this literary recommendation because "at a time of constant exaltation of the capabilities of artificial intelligence, the scientist Melanie Mitchell helps us understand and demystify the magical language that surrounds these systems computers I recommend it because it is clear, it is up-to-date and it explores what is true in the (advertising) promises about this disruptive technology".
2. 'Data Feminism' by Catherine D'Ignazio.
Thais Ruiz de Alda has given us this literary recommendation because "it tells us how to collect data, structure it, arrange it, process it and analyze it with a gender perspective, it provides us with a very valuable tool for to understand reality, to understand our environment. This book is an enjoyable read that methodologically questions data science that does not incorporate intersectional perspectives".
3. 'Women of science, technology and thought' by Marta Aymerich and Àngels Fitó.
Dominica Díez Marcet has given us this literary recommendation because "this book highlights the careers of twenty-one leading women in science, technology and thought and highlights the hurdles they had to face throughout their professional careers for the sole fact of being women. It is an absolutely recommendable book that can be read side by side and enjoyed slowly and slowly".
4. 'The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women' by Martha Ackmann.
Alba Badia has given us this literary recommendation because "it is a beautiful book and at the same time a shock of reality that describes in detail the story of thirteen exceptional and brilliant women who in the early sixties were recruited to take the same tests as the first american astronauts. They passed with flying colours, sometimes even surpassing the male marks. However, a program was not created for them".
5. 'The spring of artificial intelligence' by Carmen Torrijos and José Carlos Sánchez.
From the team of the Direcció General de Societat Digital de la Generalitat de Catalunya, they have given us this literary recommendation because "it is an informative book that wants to be exciting and didactic and that draws a lot from pop culture, memes, from sci-fi movies and 1990s commercials. The literary proposal tells us how the journalistic chronicle has talked about technology, communication and language".
6. '100 key women in the history of science and technology' by Oriol Boix and Sandra Posada.
From the team at the Punt TIC Smartcentre de Santa Bàrbara, they have given us this literary recommendation because "it is part of our documentary collection, our purple corner, where we have documents with a gender perspective and where all points of view can be accommodated. We want children, teenagers, young people and adults to meet new leading women in all areas and in all subjects to look up to".
7. 'Petita&Gran Ada Lovelace' by Zafouko Yamamoto and María Isabel Sánchez Vegara.
From the team of the Punt TIC Smartcentre de Santa Bàrbara, they made this literary recommendation to us because "it is part of our documentary fund, our purple corner, where we have documents with a gender perspective and where all viewpoints can be accommodated. We want children, teenagers, young people and adults to meet new leading women in all areas and in all subjects to look up to".
8. 'Antes muerta que analogógica' by Àurea Rodríguez.
From the team of the Punt Òmnia Valls - Vallsgenera, they have given us this literary recommendation because "this book is a call to use technologies to empower people, as well as a call to use them under certain values and always reflecting about its implications, its challenges and its challenges".
9. 'Antes muerta que sin artificial intelligence' by Àurea Rodríguez.
From the team of the Punt Òmnia Valls - Vallsgenera, they have given us this literary recommendation because "this book talks about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on our lives, its presence in diverse environments and how generative artificial intelligence transforms the present and will transform the future".
10. 'Women in science: 50 intrepid pioneers who changed the world' by Rachel Ignotofsky.
From the team of the Punt Òmnia del Raval - Colectic, they have given us this literary recommendation because "this book, written by a woman and which talks about other women, helps us explain and give visibility to new references".
11. "Las chicas son de ciencias: 25 scientistas que cambiaron el mundo" by Irene Cívico and Sergio Parra.
From the team of the Punt Òmnia del Raval - Colectic, they have given us this literary recommendation because "this book, written by a woman and which talks about other women, helps us explain and give visibility to new references".
12. 'Conifers' by Marta Carnicero.
From the team of the Punt TIC de la Biblioteca Sant Valentí, they sent us this literary recommendation because "the protagonists live in a Walden community, in the middle of nature, where the people who have gone to live there reject the new technologies, but curiously chips and technologies, specifically bioengineering, play a very prominent role in the plot of the novel... which we cannot reveal to you".
13. 'Enxarxats' by Carme Torras.
From the team of the Punt TIC de la Biblioteca Sant Valentí, they sent us this literary recommendation because "it is a novel with a lot of intrigue and that can generate a lot of debate around the digital world and the link with our lives and our society It is from computer engineer and robotics teacher Carme Torras".