Safiya Umoja Noble
Autor(a) de Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
About the Author
Safiya Umoja Noble is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the co-editor of The Intersectional Internet Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online and Emotions, Technology, and Design.
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- Data de nascimento
- 20th century
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Fresno, California, USA
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Educação
- California State University, Fresno (BA | Sociology)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (MA, PhD | Library & information science) - Ocupações
- internet studies scholar
digital media scholar
professor - Organizações
- University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry [C2i2] (cofounder, director)
The Equality Engine - Prémios e menções honrosas
- MacArthur Fellow (2021)
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Noble's thesis is that we port our biases into our technology and information systems, and though the promise of the internet is democracy, in practice it is driven by advertisers gaming the system with AdWords, hyperlinking, etc. We'd like to think Google is rad for all the free tools, but a business needs to make money, and we are the product.
I do feel this could've dug deeper- there were a lot of "my work demonstrates..." sentences and I expected qualitative data, but I recognize that's my own STEMy expectations. Noble does highlight further places that can be built on this preliminary look at SEO and systemic biases (in particular, the influence of pornography on various web things like streaming and e-commerce) but I'm left wanting more.… (mais)