Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By: Safiya Umoja Noble
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit…
Want to Read $ 16.50"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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2. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3. The Houses of History: A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory
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A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook a… read more
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6. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction
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7. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
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An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more
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8. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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10. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
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“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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11. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
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A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From … read more
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12. More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
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13. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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14. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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15. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
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16. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By: Safiya Umoja Noble
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit… read more
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"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
17. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
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18. Data Feminism
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19. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
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20. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
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21. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
By: Meredith Broussard
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