Please note: This talk will be given online.
Safiya
Noble, Department
of
Information
Studies
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles
In her recent best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression, Dr. Safiya Noble challenges the idea that “Big Tech” offers an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Her work argues that the combination of private interests, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of internet companies, leads to a limited understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in everyday digital engagements.
Data discrimination is a real social problem, and in this talk, Noble offers a powerful set of data points, examples, and provocations. She asserts we are just at the beginning of creating new paradigms of justice with the tech sector.
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Biography
Dr.
Safiya
Umoja
Noble
is
an
Associate
Professor
at
the
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles
(UCLA)
in
the
Department
of
Information
Studies
where
she
serves
as
the
Co-Founder
and
Co-Director
of
the
UCLA
Center
for
Critical
Internet
Inquiry
(C2i2).
She
also
holds
appointments
in
African
American
Studies
and
Gender
Studies.
She
is
a
Research
Associate
at
the
Oxford
Internet
Institute
at
the
University
of
Oxford
and
has
been
appointed
as
a
Commissioner
on
the
Oxford
Commission
on
AI
&
Good
Governance
(OxCAIGG).
She
is
a
board
member
of
the
Cyber
Civil
Rights
Initiative,
serving
those
vulnerable
to
online
harassment.
Dr. Noble is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias by national and international press including The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, USA Today, Wired, Time, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The New York Times, and Virginia Public Radio, and a host of local news and podcasts, including Science Friction, and Science Friday to name a few. Recently, she was named in the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers of 2019” by Government Technology magazine.