Virginia Eubanks
Auteur van Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor
Over de Auteur
Virginia Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.
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Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor (2018) 371 exemplaren
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith (SUNY series in New… (2014) — Redacteur — 40 exemplaren
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There is a small fallacy in the book that lies in the subtitle. High-Tech Tools do not police and punish the poor. If you read the first chapter carefully, you will realize that we stigmatize, profile, and punish the poor. We often do not treat them as humans.
The High-Tech tools we have at our disposal now have only made this more unfair and efficient.
She does not explore the human tendency to stigmatize the poor.
The book has another weakness. While she included many case studies in the book, Virginia did not sufficiently explore the technology angle.… (meer)