Readings: our recommendations for this winter
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:45 am
Book January 01, 2022 Reading time: 6 min Share If you want to start this new year with a little reflection, here is the second part of our reading selection. Happy New Year 2022! Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism , Safiya Umoja Noble If you search for “black woman” or “white woman” on Google, the results are worryingly different. Contrary to popular belief, search engines are therefore not a biased terrain for all forms of ideas, identities and activities.
Discrimination through data is becoming a real social philippines mobile database problem. Through textual, media and advertising analyses, Safiya Umoja Noble reveals how these platforms maintain a racist and sexist culture through the discoverability of content. Amazon.com - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Noble, Safiya Umoja - Books Do algorithms make the law?, Aurélie Jean Algorithms are an integral part of our lives: they help us move, work, take care of ourselves, and even legislate. However, we know and understand little about them. Do they make the law? Through this question, Aurélie Jean attempts to demystify the power of algorithms and underlines the importance of their supervision in the law.
Misused, they become a threat to its principles of transparency and fairness. Well controlled, they can guide those who make and exercise it in order to guarantee the equal treatment of everyone before the law. Do algorithms make the law? - Aurélie Jean - | General Literature House Emotional robots: Health, surveillance, sexuality…: and ethics in all this?, Laurence Devillers In the future, robots will take an increasingly important place in our emotional circuits, to the point of becoming " artificial friends". However, they have neither emotions nor feelings, nor pleasure hormones, nor intentions of their own, which makes the risks of manipulation real.
Discrimination through data is becoming a real social philippines mobile database problem. Through textual, media and advertising analyses, Safiya Umoja Noble reveals how these platforms maintain a racist and sexist culture through the discoverability of content. Amazon.com - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Noble, Safiya Umoja - Books Do algorithms make the law?, Aurélie Jean Algorithms are an integral part of our lives: they help us move, work, take care of ourselves, and even legislate. However, we know and understand little about them. Do they make the law? Through this question, Aurélie Jean attempts to demystify the power of algorithms and underlines the importance of their supervision in the law.
Misused, they become a threat to its principles of transparency and fairness. Well controlled, they can guide those who make and exercise it in order to guarantee the equal treatment of everyone before the law. Do algorithms make the law? - Aurélie Jean - | General Literature House Emotional robots: Health, surveillance, sexuality…: and ethics in all this?, Laurence Devillers In the future, robots will take an increasingly important place in our emotional circuits, to the point of becoming " artificial friends". However, they have neither emotions nor feelings, nor pleasure hormones, nor intentions of their own, which makes the risks of manipulation real.