by Safiya Noble | Nov 12, 2018 | Book Reviews, Press
© Getty Cordelia Fine MARCH 6, 2018 Non-Fiction Coded prejudice: how algorithms fuel injustice Two new books highlight the ways in which technology is hurting minorities and the poor Digital tools are often hailed as transparent and democratising “disrupters”. Two new...
by Safiya Noble | Nov 12, 2018 | Book Reviews, Press
Reviewed by: Robert Fantina In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble clearly explains how search engines, used by billions daily, are not an innocent, neutral vehicle by which to search for information. They are not benign; they are powered by programmers,...
by Safiya Noble | Nov 12, 2018 | Book Reviews, Press
FEBRUARY 13, 2018 INFRASTRUCTURE IS CREATED by people and therefore embeds and reflects the values of the people who create it. This is a fundamental insight in the study of what information studies scholar Susan Leigh Star has called “boring things”: phone books,...
by Safiya Noble | Nov 12, 2018 | Book Reviews, Press, Uncategorized
The way search engines work is far from unprejudiced, a new book argues. he internet might seem like a level playing field, but it isn’t. Safiya Umoja Noble came face to face with that fact one day when she used Google’s search engine to look for subjects her nieces...
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