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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11. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
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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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16. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By: Safiya Umoja Noble
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
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17. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
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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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