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Bezig met laden... Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Codedoor Ruha Benjamin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A phenomenally important book, for anyone who has even interacted with any technology and especially if you are involved, in some way, in the creation, design, or ideation process for any tech. This book will dispel any notion about how technology inherently represents progress of any kind, or how technology is 'neutral' - somehow, such myths have been fed to all of us, and it is important to unlearn these blind spots about the development and use of tech in our lives. ( ) More sociologists! It's almost all that I read, if you haven't noticed. This covers what should be but isn't widely known by 2021, that our systems--especially the tech platforms that mediate so much of our lives--are hiding enormous amounts of racist bias that their human creators put into them. What I like best, though, is that Benjamin provides constructive and realistic solutions to these problems so that we reject white-dominant culture as a baseline for the systems that we all use. And it is about time because these problems aren't new (she goes back to Polaroid, y'all. Polaroid!) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the "New Jim Code," she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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