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Megan McIntyre
@rcmeg.bsky.social
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Director, Program in Rhet/Comp, U of Arkansas
English prof
Writing about #WPALife and writing pedagogy
Loves dogs

Before: Sonoma State English & Dartmouth Institute for Writing & Rhetoric
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For...reasons, I'd love to share a recent piece from @nobugsnous.bsky.social and me, "Linguistic Justice and Storying Resistance to Generative AI."
Screenshot of an article titled, "Recoveries and Reconsiderations: Linguistic Justice and Storying Resistance to Generative AI" by Maggie Fernandes and Megan McIntyre Abstract: In this piece, we argue that linguistic and algorithmic oppressions are inextricably linked to one another, a relationship illuminated by the work and experiences of Timnit Gebru. To begin, we briefly trace the history of calls for linguistic justice within writing studies, with specific attention to the adoption of Students’ Rights to Their Own Language. We then connect the need for linguistic justice to calls for algorithmic justice in the context of generative AI, large language models, and machine learning. Then, using a feminist research approach that emphasizes storytelling and centers the lived experiences of women, we tell the story of Gebru’s experiences resisting harmful AI at Google and combating institutional whiteness within the tech industry. We conclude by connecting Gebru’s fight for an AI ethics that centers the lived experiences (and languaging) of historically marginalized groups to writing studies’ disciplinary investment in language variation and linguistic justice and argue that algorithmic justice requires linguistic justice. Keywords:: algorithmic oppression, linguistic justice, generative AI, storytelling Doi: 10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.2.05
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Google's AI overview is out here misspelling relevance & subbing the not-a-word "crency" for currency.

I'm not really sure why folks keep telling me that this is a tool I should be teaching my students to use/rely upon...
A Google AI overview says, "The CRAAP test is a mnemonic tool (Crency, Relavence, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) used to evaluate the credibility and reliability of information sources, particularly for research purposes." The AI overview misspells btoh "currency" and "relevance," which are the first two words referred to by the acronym CRAAP.
April 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM