Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble · first published 2018
100% recommend
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls"-what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in "white girls," the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about "why black women are so sassy" or "why black women are so angry" presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea tha
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…technology, thats your call, but it doesn't provide you an effective framework to justify your beliefs. From the perspective of good faith: please do read "Race After Technology" by Ruha Benjamin and "Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble. They are two books that i wish more tech and tech adjacent people would read. > Now, CS approached with the conclusion that it is biased and somehow racist will, of course, prove itself…
on “Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education” ↗…views on politics to be the focus, though. I'm just wary of biases hidden in supposedly unbiased algorithms. If that topic interests you, I can recommend Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil, and Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble. I'm a programmer myself, so I understand if people are initially defensive about these topics. But it's important to me that I never write software that's harmful to people, so I try…
on “CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust” ↗