Ch 5: Retooling solidarity, reimagining justice
Do you agree with Benjamin’s argument that we can utilize technologies for solidarity and justice? Why or why not? She was writing prior to the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic. Do those issues, in addition to the resistance to internet regulation, give you pause? If there is cause for hope, where do you find it, and how does this hope relate to the questions of ethics as we have discussed them?
Or, if you’d rather learn about Latinx digital studies, you can choose to watch Melissa Villa-Nicholas present https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2qVq9_Hcs” rel=”noreferrer noopener” target=”_blank” title=”Link”>Data Borders: How we are all intimately intertwined with detention and deportation, Links to an external site.and write something that is of interest to you from this presentation.
CONTENTS
Cover
Front Matter
Preface
Introduction
Everyday Coding
Move Slower
Tailoring: Targeting
Why Now?
The Anti-Black Box
Race as Technology
Beyond Techno-Determinism
Beyond Biased Bots
Notes
1 Engineered Inequity
I Tinker, Therefore I Am
Raising Robots
Automating Anti-Blackness
Engineered Inequity
Notes
2 Default Discrimination
Default Discrimination
Predicting Glitches
Systemic Racism Reloaded
Architecture and Algorithms
Notes
3 Coded Exposure
Multiply Exposed
Exposing Whiteness
Exposing Difference
Exposing Science
Exposing Privacy
Exposing Citizenship
Notes
4 Technological Benevolence
Technological Benevolence
Fixing Diversity
Racial Fixes
Fixing Health
Detecting Fixes
Notes
5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice
Selling Empathy
Rethinking Design Thinking
Beyond Code-Switching
Audits and Other Abolitionist Tools
Reimagining Technology
Notes
Acknowledgments
Appendix
References
Index
End User License Agreement
Figures
Introduction
Figure 0.1 N-Tech Lab, Ethnicity Recognition
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1 Beauty AI
Figure 1.2 Robot Slaves
Figure 1.3 Overserved
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 Malcolm Ten
Figure 2.2 Patented PredPol Algorithm
Chapter 3
Figure 3.1 Shirley Card
Figure 3.2 Diverse Shirley
Figure 3.3 Strip Test 7
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 Appolition
Figure 5.2 White-Collar Crime Risk Zones
RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY
Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2643-7
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Names: Benjamin, Ruha, author.
Title: Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code / Ruha Benjamin.
Description: Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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