From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
As the search arena is consolidated under the control of a handful of corporations, it is even more crucial to pay close attention to the types of processes that are shaping the information prioritized in search engines.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble Noticeably absent in the discussions of search is the broader social and technical interplay that exists dynamically in the way technology is increasingly mediating public access to information, from libraries to the search engine.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble Search is also more than the specific mathematical algorithms and deep-machine learning developed by computer scientists and software engineers to index upward of a trillion pages of information and move some from the universal data pile to the first pages of results on a computer screen. The interface on the screen presents an information reality, while the operations are rendered increasingly invisible.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble This linkage between the indexing practices of the World Wide Web and the traditional classification systems of knowledge structures such as the Library of Congress is important. Both systems rely on human decisions, whether given over en masse to artificial intelligence and algorithms or left to human beings to catalog. The representation of people and cultures in information systems clearly reflects the social context within which the subjects exist.
From Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble The questions about who controls the records of our social life and how they can be forgotten must move to the fore in the United States. They are explicitly tied to who can own identity markers and how we can reclaim them at both the individual and community level.
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