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From on a regular basis apps to complicated algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts by tech-industry hype to know how rising applied sciences can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.
Benjamin argues that automation, removed from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the darkish net, has the potential to cover, pace up, and deepen discrimination whereas showing impartial and even benevolent when in comparison with the racism of a earlier period. Presenting the idea of the “New Jim Code,” she reveals how a spread of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring however thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to repair racial bias however finally doing fairly the other. Furthermore, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a type of know-how, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice within the structure of on a regular basis life.
This illuminating information offers conceptual instruments for decoding tech guarantees with sociologically knowledgeable skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to query not solely the applied sciences we’re offered but in addition those we ourselves manufacture.
Writer : Polity; 1st version (June 17, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 172 pages
ISBN-10 : 1509526404
ISBN-13 : 978-1509526406
Merchandise Weight : 13.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.3 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
