Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Hardcover)

from superpatron

Google as a fundamentally oppressive search engine, as expressed by the phrase in the introduction "technological redlining", noting especially Google's mistreatment of black women and girls in search results. It's a scholarly work (for all of those limits). Readers will also like Bowker and Star...

from francesanngray

Everyone should read this!

from jen.e.moore

The problem with academic writing about the Internet is that it dates so quickly: unlike a popular nonfiction book, where you're frantically googling while reading to check on what's happened since the book came out, you're frantically googling to check on what's happened in the three years since...

from dono421846

Although a solid summary of the larger problem of subtle bias in search engine results, this book promised much more in the way of explaining the source of that bias. Although the author recognizes and criticizes "the idea that it is not the search engine that is the problem but, rather, the user...