Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
4.07
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
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1. Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
By: Katrine Kielos , Katrine Marçal
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. It might seem easy, but it is … read more
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"Extreme inequality and financial crisis usually coincide. But the elite who cause it usually come out OK. And they are usually man."-Katrine Kielos, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
"Whether women work in the care sector because the wages are low or whether wages are low because women work there is a question that cannot be answered. But we know that a big reason for economic ine…"-Katrine Kielos, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
"Actually, the idea of economic man is an efficient way of excluding women. We have historically allocated women certain activities and said that she must do them because she is a woman. Then we creat…"-Katrine Kielos, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
"The laws of the solar system that previously only God had known could suddenly be read using scientific method. The view of the world changed. From one where God intervened, had opinions, smote, part…"-Katrine Kielos, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
2. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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3. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
By: Angela Saini
4.06
Format: 285 pages,
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentall… read more
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4. Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
3.64
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digita… read more
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"Tech, for the most part, wasn't progress. It was just business."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"if personalised playlists were full of sad singers and song writers, I could only blame myself for getting algorithm depressed."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"The platforms designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data inspired infinite scroll...people were saying nothing and saying it all the time."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"I felt rising frustration and resentment. I was frustrated because I felt stuck, and I was resentful because I was stuck in an industry that was chipping away at so many things I cared about."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
5. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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6. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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7. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.27
Format: 172 pages, ebook
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more
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"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
8. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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9. 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
"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"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
10. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
By: Claire L. Evans
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every i… read more
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11. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
By: Sarah Kendzior
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior comes the bitingly honest examination of the … read more
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"The nightmares I had been fending off had come home in the form of the Trump administration: a white supremacist kleptocracy linked to a transnational crime syndicate, using digital media to manipula…"-Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
"It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming. It is worse when the threat reveals itself to be real, especially when many of those you warned still dismiss it, and you do not know whether their …"-Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
12. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
4.07
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can… read more
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13. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
By: Byron Tau
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more
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"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
14. Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
By: Rana El Kaliouby
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of … read more
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"You don't have to be a genius to be a scientist, but you do need to be persistent."-Rana El Kaliouby, Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
15. The Computer Boys Take over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (History of Computing)
By: Nathan L. Ensmenger
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-20th century and the people who made it pos… read more
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16. Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators
By: Susanne Tedrick
4.25
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Break through barriers to achieve a rewarding future in tech Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint … read more
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17. Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice
By: Kishonna L. Gray
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming… read more
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18. Män har varit här längst: Jämställdhet och förnyelse i industriella organisationer
By: Anna Wahl
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
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19. Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity
By: Shira Chess
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A… read more
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20. Feminism in Play (Palgrave Games in Context)
By: Kishonna L. Gray
3.79
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Feminism in Play focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games cul… read more
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21. Play like a Feminist. (Playful Thinking)
By: Shira Chess
4.04
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Why video games need feminism and feminism needs video games. "You play like a girl" it's meant to … read more
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