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ML tool to detect oGBV in Hindi, Tamil and Indian English
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India, Norway

Biography

Cheshta Arora is a researcher, writer and ethnographer studying socio-technical systems in the contemporary. Cheshta holds a PhD from the National Institute of Advanced Studies/Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. She has recently joined Technology and Society group at the Vestlandforsking/Western Norway Research Institute as a senior researcher. She is also a co-PI on an independent project called 'Audit AI4SG' funded by the Tech Ethics Lab/University of Notre Dame.

Research interests and specializations: Critical New Media Studies, Social approaches to ML/AI, Content Moderation and mis-, dis-, mal- information, CSCW, Critical Internet/Data/Information/Algorithm Studies, Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Urban Studies, Work/Labour, Feminist Techno-Science Studies, 20th Century French Philosophy, New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology.

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Employment (2)

Western Norway Research Institute: Sogndal, Sogndal, NO

2023-05-08 to present | Senior Researcher (Technology & Society)
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Centre for Internet and Society: Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

2021-06-07 to 2022-12-29 | Researcher
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Education and qualifications (3)

National Institute of Advanced Studies: Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

2017 to 2022-05 | Doctorate (Social Sciences)
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Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta: Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

2015 to 2017 | MPhil Social Sciences (Social Sciences)
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Ambedkar University Delhi: Delhi, Delhi, IN

2013 to 2015 | MA Gender Studies (School of Human Studies)
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Funding (2)

Audit4SG: Toward an Ontology of AI Auditing for a Web Tool to Generate Customizable AI Auditing Methodologies for AI4SG

2023-01 to 2023-12 | Grant
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana, US)
URL: https://audit4sg.org
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NIAS Doctoral Fellowship

2017-08 to 2021-06 | Award
Tata Consultancy Services (Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN)
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Works (22)

The Uli Dataset: An Exercise in Experience Led Annotation of oGBV

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024)
2024 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.woah-1.16
Contributors: Arnav Arora; Maha Jinadoss; Cheshta Arora; Denny George; Brindaalakshmi; Haseena Khan; Kirti Rawat; Div; Ritash; Seema Mathur
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WHEN YOU SAY DISCRIMINATION, DO YOU MEAN…?: COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRANSLATION RISKS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Proceedings of the International Conferences on Digital Transformation and Innovation Management 2024, DTIM 2024; and ICT, Society and Human Beings 2024, ICT 2024
2024 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85207059992

Part of ISBN: 9789898704603
Contributors: Corneliussen, H.G.; Seddighi, G.; Arora, C.
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Web3 and the state: The Indian state’s re-description of blockchain

First Monday
2024-09-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i10.13780
Part of ISSN: 1396-0466
Contributors: Debarun Sarkar; Cheshta Arora
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Destabilizing Auditing: Auditing artificial intelligence as care-ful socio-analogue/digital relation

Conference Proceedings of the STS Conference Graz 2023
2023 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.3217/978-3-85125-976-6
Contributors: Arora, Cheshta; Sarkar, Debarun
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Interfacing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG) and Relational AI Ethics: A Systematic Literature Review

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2023 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85180005130

Part of ISSN: 16130073
Contributors: Arora, C.; Sarkar, D.
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Tech hype as a mnemonic process: Misremembering the land problem in India,Tech-Hype als Erinnerungsprozess: Falsche Erinnerung an das Landproblem in Indien

Zeitschrift fur Technikfolgenabschatzung in Theorie und Praxis / Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14512/tatup.32.3.28
EID:

2-s2.0-85185255125

Part of ISSN: 25678833 2568020X
Contributors: Arora, C.; Sarkar, D.
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To think of interdisciplinarity as intercurrence: Or, working as an interdisciplinary team to develop an ML tool to tackle online gender-based violence and hate speech

Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Sciences
2023-09-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.46298/jimis.8915
Part of ISSN: 2430-3038
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Tarunima Prabhakar
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Audit4SG: Democratizing Auditing Artificial Intelligence and Ontology Development Methodologies

IFIP WG 13.8 workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation
2023-07 | Conference paper
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https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/proceedings-hci-for-digital-democracy-and-citizen-participation/
Contributors: Debarun Sarkar; Tuhin Bhuyan; Cheshta Arora
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Audit4SG

IFIP WG 13.8 workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation
2023-07-28 | Conference paper | Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Debarun Sarkar; Tuhin Bhuyan
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Autonomous Organizations and The State

The Coils of the Serpent
2023-06 | Journal article | Conceptualization, Writing - original draft
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Debarun Sarkar
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Learning For/Towards Sustainable Development

Think20 (T20) India: TF-6: Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda 2023-07
2023-06 | Other | Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing - original draft
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Anitha Kurup; Brigid Freeman; Debarun Sarkar
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On the Injunction of XAIxArt

1st International Workshop on Explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts), ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C) 2023
2023-06-19 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Funding acquisition, Project administration
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Debarun Sarkar
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Auditing Artificial Intelligence as a New Layer of Mediation: Introduction of a new black box to address another black box

Hipertext.net
2023-05-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.31009/hipertext.net.2023.i26.10
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Debarun Sarkar
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Sexual harassment and its vicissitudes: Jadavpur University, 2014-17

Feminist Media Studies
2023-04-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2027493
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Debarun Sarkar
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Designing for Disagreements

Feminist Perspectives on Social Media Governance
2023-02 | Book chapter | Conceptualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Arnav Arora; Mahalakshmi J
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No Publication, No Degree

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
2023-02-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.36950/sjsca.2022.28.8003
Contributors: Cheshta Arora; Debarun Sarkar
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Guidelines to Build Robust Security Standards for the Financial Technology Sector in India

The Indian Journal of Law and Technology
2022 | Journal article | Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Vipul Kharbanda; Cheshta Arora
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Sustaining science, becoming respectable

Seminar
2022-12 | Magazine article
Contributors: Cheshta Arora
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…the tool is under development…

PARABLES OF AI IN/FROM THE MAJORITY WORLD: AN ANTHOLOGY
2022-12 | Book chapter
Contributors: Cheshta Arora
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Exhaustion and scepticism within the scientific community: the case of women scientists and their peers in India

Current Science
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v120/i11/1679-1685
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2-s2.0-85108635107

Part of ISSN: 00113891
Contributors: Arora, C.
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Narrating Women in Science

Role of Women in Nation Development (Book of Conference Proceedings of NIT Jamshedpur 2020)
2021 | Conference paper
DOI: DOI: - https://doi.org/10.47531/MANTECH.2021.09
Part of ISBN: 978-81-948050-4-5
Contributors: Arora, Cheshta
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Dreaming the welfare-state: Indian women-studies-movement, neoliberalism and feminist future

Ex Aequo
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.22355/EXAEQUO.2020.42.03
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2-s2.0-85102296474

Part of ISSN: 21840385 08745560
Contributors: Arora, C.
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