On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Technology, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Technology: Algorithmic Bias, Automated Decision-making Tools, Big Data, Censorship, Eugenics, Data Sharing, Discriminatory Design, Digital Colonialism, Digital Divide, Facial Recognition, Geospatial Policing, Predictive Policing, Scientific Racism, Racial Coding, Racialized Surveillance, Regulation, Shadow Banning
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Source: The Laura Flanders Show (2019, January). Automating Inequality: Virginia Eubanks. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ADYxJU0WyJA
Source: BBC Reel. (2021, June 4). What is Data Colonialism? YouTube. https://youtu.be/Pt1q_AuvTGE
Source: Vox. (2021, March 31). Are We Automating Racism? YouTube. https://youtu.be/Ok5sKLXqynQ
Source: AJ+. (2018, June 5.) Why You Should Worry About Facial Recognition Software. YouTube. https://youtu.be/0JupZy4LJ50
Source: Vera Institute of Justice. (2018, March 26). Sarah Brayne on Police Surveillance in the Age of Big Data. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgx2n3Cb-D8
Source: TED. (2018, October 18). How To Stop Artificial Intelligence From Marginalizing Communities? | Timnit Gebru. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWCtoVt1CJM
Source: TEDx. (2014, April 18). How biased are our algorithms? | Safiya Umoja Noble. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuJ8yQf6dI&feature=emb_logo
Episode: Google This: Algorithmic Oppression
Episode: Automating Inequality, with Virginia Eubanks
Episode: Racial Equity and Data Privacy
Episode: Glitch in the Code: Black Girls and Algorithmic Justice
Episode: The Racist History of Surveillance Tech
Episode: Data and Racial Capitalism
Episode: Digitize and Punish
Episode: Meet the Students Who Are Taking on Comcast
Episode: Race and Predictive Policing
Episode: The Threat of Facial Recognition
Episode: Lawgorithms
Episode: Discrimination in the Digital Age
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