Works by/featuring Dr. Noble
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Algorithms of Oppression
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Call Number: ZA4230 .N635 2018ISBN: 9781479849949Publication Date: 2018-02-20A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms. -
Emotions, Technology, and Design
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ISBN: 9780081007013Publication Date: 2015-12-28Emotions, Technology, and Design provides a thorough look at how technology design affects emotions and how to use that understanding to in practical applications. -
Not My Type
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ISBN: 9781503635050Publication Date: 2024-02-06In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture.
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Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at UCLA. She currently serves as a Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus. Read Dr. Noble's full bio here |
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Previous Presentations/Engagements
re:publica 2018 – Safiya Umoja Noble: Algorithms of Oppression
In her recent book Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem.
Unraveling the Threads of Algorithmic Influence: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Safiya Noble
Dr. Noble makes a convincing case for how algorithms underlying AI and other applications need much more scrutiny and oversight because they can create or re-create social problems like racism and sexism in code, making these kinds of problems ever-harder to solve.
NYU Global Scholars & Innovators: A Lecture with Safiya Noble
The Office of Global Inclusion (OGI) in partnership with NYU Reads, the Office of the Provost, NYU Libraries, NYU Press, along with School-based partners, and other offices across NYU, was pleased to host the second feature event in the NYU BeTogether Global Scholars & Innovators Series (GSI): A Faculty Lecture with Safiya Noble. This conversation focused on Dr. Noble’s book, Algorithms of Oppression.
Media Coverage and the Political Economy of Black Death
Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble joined us again to discuss how her work on the political economy of the internet is playing out in current media coverage of the deaths of Black people. Money and audience are generated for a variety of media and their political and commercial sponsors but little is said of the trauma and political stagnation imposed upon affected Black communities, audiences and activists.
Initiatives
The mission of the UCLA Center on Resilience & Digital Justice (CRDJ) is concerned with the ways in which a democratic and emancipatory society must provide protection from dangerous digital technologies and overreaching power by the tech sector, particularly as companies and products are implicated in racial injustice and social inequality.
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Established in 2020, the purpose of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power is to critically investigate the social impact of digital technologies on communities and the broader public good. It aims to create new paradigms for the public to understand the harms of tech platforms, predictive technologies, advertising-driven algorithmic content, and the work of digital laborers.
The UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry is an interdisciplinary research center committed to holding those who create unjust technologies and systems accountable for the erosion of equity, trust, and participation, and working to reimagine technology, champion racial justice, and strengthen democracy. As community of scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists, the Center will provide a space to encourage approaches to knowledge and action that challenges the status quo and encourages technologies that are equitable, just, and in service to the public interest.
Read: Human Rights, Racial Equality, & New Information Technologies: Mapping the Structural Threats
