Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code
"From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation ha...
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Medford, MA : Polity,
2019
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| author | Benjamin, Ruha author. |
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| description | "From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of tool – a technology designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice that is part of the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves"--
"Cutting through tech-industry hype, this book explores how emerging technologies reinforce white supremacy. Conceptualizing the "New Jim Code," Benjamin shows how discriminatory designs can encode inequity and also makes a case for race itself as a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice"--
Machine generated contents note: Preface Introduction: The New Jim Code 1 Engineered Inequity: Are Robots Racist? 2 Default Discrimination: Is the Glitch Systemic? 3 Coded Exposure: Is Visibility a Trap? 4 Technological Benevolence: Do Fixes Fix Us? 5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References.
"From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of tool – a technology designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice that is part of the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves"--
"Cutting through tech-industry hype, this book explores how emerging technologies reinforce white supremacy. Conceptualizing the "New Jim Code," Benjamin shows how discriminatory designs can encode inequity and also makes a case for race itself as a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice"-- |
| id | KOHA-OAI-NICbr-2149 |
| institution | Catálogo da Biblioteca NIC |
| isbn | 9781509526390 9781509526406 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| publisher | Medford, MA : Polity, |
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| spellingShingle | Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code Benjamin, Ruha author. Discriminação racial Negros Tecnologia da informação Sociologia |
| title | Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code |
| title_full | Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code |
| title_fullStr | Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code |
| title_full_unstemmed | Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code |
| title_short | Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code |
| title_sort | race after technology abolitionist tools for the new jim code |
| topic | Discriminação racial Negros Tecnologia da informação Sociologia |
| url | https://catalogo.acervo.nic.br/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=2149 |