suggested books from Dr. Casey Fiesler via musical twitter
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by Safiya Umoja Noble
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
suggested books from Dr. Casey Fiesler via musical twitter
by Safiya Umoja Noble
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
A list of books, essays, papers, blog posts, tweets, etc. on tech and ethics that I have either read and found useful or plan to read because I think they might be useful. I’m not especially interested in ethics that doesn’t take power or structure into account, so most of the standard texts one would read in a course on ethics aren’t represented on my list.
Not strictly about either ethics or tech, but Claire Dederer’s What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men? verbalizes something that is wound up in how I think about ethics, and what I hear when people talk about ethics:
This, I think, is what happens to so many of us when we consider the work of the monster geniuses—we tell ourselves we’re having ethical thoughts when really what we’re having is moral feelings.
Dr. Robin James recommends Charles Mills’ [Ideal Theory as I
Update: See https://github.com/muan/details-on-details instead.
I did a talk at Brooklyn JS called Details on <details> on 2018/07/19. I have way more details prepared than the ones that fit in the slides, so here's the real details on <details>. ❤️
– @muan