2018 SSRC Media and Democracy Public Talk
Safiya Noble:
Confronting Algorithms of Oppression
Monday, May 14, 2018
Program 5:30 p.m.
Reception & Book Signing to Follow
In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble argues that search engines are not unbiased marketplaces of ideas. Rather, search engines reflect the underlying power structures of the societies in which they are built.
Response from Meredith Broussard, Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University and author of Artifical Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.
Generously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Democracy Fund.
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues)
New York City
In Algorithims of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble argues that search engines are not unbiased marketplaces of ideas. Rather, search engines reflect the underlying power structures of the societies in which they are built.
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