"Nowadays, as we amass social capital by posting whatever generates more engagement, we can't help but tune our curation and signaling to whatever social media companies' algorithms seem to favor — faces and bodies that conform to a white European beauty standard; a certain vaguely Californian vocal cadence; the airing of strong feelings, especially anger."
- From "We Can All Connect and Share" p. 68
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect what is Human in a World of Machines
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"The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. "AI is not coming, it's here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are going to be and how we're going to use technology in service of what it means to be fully human."--Brené Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * Shortlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Memphis and then developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini followed her lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art to MIT in 2015. As a graduate student at the "Future Factory," she did groundbreaking research that exposed widespread racial and gender bias in AI services from tech giants across the world. Unmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech. It is the remarkable story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls "the coded gaze"--the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products--and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector, she shows how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity "excoded" and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them. Encouraging experts and non-experts alike to join this fight, Buolamwini writes, "The rising frontier for civil rights will require algorithmic justice. AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few."
Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender
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The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies are Reinventing Misogyny
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Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it? We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities--they're deepening them.
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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The Psychology and Dynamics Behind Social Media Interactions
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Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States
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#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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Online Othering: Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web
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This book explores the discrimination encountered and propagated by individuals in online environments. The editors develop the concept of 'online othering' as a tool through which to analyse and make sense of the myriad toxic and harmful behaviours which are being created through, or perpetuated via, the use of communication-technologies such as the internet, social media, and 'the internet of things'.
Digital Black Feminism
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Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought
