Ruha Benjamin
Teoksen Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code tekijä
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Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University
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- Wai, Maharashtra, India
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- Spelman College (BA | Sociology & anthropology)
University of California, Berkeley (MA & PhD | Sociology) - Ammatit
- sociologist
professor - Organisaatiot
- Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, Princeton University (founder)
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- Sarah Levitt
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Tekijä: Ruha Benjamin
Revealing, eye-opening, and inspiring. Benjamin draws a clear analytical line through the many expression points of racism, and especially anti-Blackness, in our society, but always returns to her theme of how we can and need to resist this negative force by building the world we want, making us feel inspired and energized to do tackle this work in small and big ways.
A phenomenally important book, for anyone who has even interacted with any technology and especially if you are involved, in some way, in the creation, design, or ideation process for any tech. This book will dispel any notion about how technology inherently represents progress of any kind, or how technology is 'neutral' - somehow, such myths have been fed to all of us, and it is important to unlearn these blind spots about the development and use of tech in our lives.
More sociologists! It's almost all that I read, if you haven't noticed. This covers what should be but isn't widely known by 2021, that our systems--especially the tech platforms that mediate so much of our lives--are hiding enormous amounts of racist bias that their human creators put into them. What I like best, though, is that Benjamin provides constructive and realistic solutions to these problems so that we reject white-dominant culture as a baseline for the systems that we all use. And it is about time because these problems aren't new (she goes back to Polaroid, y'all. Polaroid!)… (lisätietoja)
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