by Safiya Noble | Dec 22, 2016 | Search Bias
Today was an amazing day of meeting and hearing from African Americans in technology at Focus100 presented by DigitalUndivided. If you aren’t familiar with this conference, you can see the lineup of speakers. The morning started with Maxine Williams, the Global Head...
by Safiya Noble | Dec 22, 2016 | Feminism
Here is an article I recently wrote for Bitch Magazine, which details the ways in which commercial search engines serve up problematic representations of women on the web. This work could be considered a the public press version of research I have been engaged in for...
by Safiya Noble | Dec 22, 2016 | Search Bias
Here is a recent article published in InVisible Culture, an electronic peer-reviewed journal of visual culture from the University of Rochester. The article explores the ways in which racialized and gendered identities are often misrepresented in commercial...
by Safiya Noble | Dec 22, 2016 | Black Lives Matter
It’s been a difficult year facing the crisis of brutality and watching images of unarmed African Americans being killed by law enforcement circulate in social media over and over. One of the highlights for me in this abyss of sadness, is that I’ve made the move back...
by Safiya Noble | Dec 22, 2016 | Feminism
Recently, I went to Portland at the invitation of ACRL, to talk about my forthcoming book (NYU Press) on why we get misrepresentations of women, girls, people and culture in commercial search engines — and why we should care. Many thanks to Laurie D. Borman for...
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