From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
Control over community identities are shifting as private companies on the web are able to manage and control definitions, and the very concept of community control on the web is increasingly becoming negligible as infusions of private capital into the infrastructure of the Internet has moved the U.S.-based web from a state-funded project to an increasingly privately controlled, neoliberal communication sphere.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble It is more interesting to think about the ways in which search engine results perpetuate particular narratives that reflect historically uneven distributions of power in society.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble The public generally trusts information found in search engines. Yet much of the content surfaced in a web search in a commercial search engine is linked to paid advertising, which in part helps drive it to the top of the page rank, and searchers are not typically clear about the distinctions between "real" information and advertising.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble "You didn't know it was a possibility," Arthur said quietly. "But those of us who dream of impossible things know just how far we can go when pushed to do so."
"Well, then," Linus said faintly. "Let's see how they like us being pushed, shall we?" From The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune |
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