{"id":410,"date":"2020-10-11T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2021.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2020\/?page_id=410"},"modified":"2024-10-19T10:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:55:53","slug":"technology-and-race","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/technology-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kashmir Hill, “Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm,”\u00a0 New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>June 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

How AI Reinforces Bias in the Criminal Justice System<\/a><\/p>\n

Joy Buolamwini,,Compassion through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias<\/a><\/p>\n

Ruha Benjamin, Technology and Race, Factually Podcast\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Optional–(Better Off Ted segment referenced in podcast)<\/a><\/p>\n

Redlining Map of Charlotte<\/a><\/p>\n

What went wrong that Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was arrested?\u00a0 This was a socio-technical system, what components of this system allowed for this injustice?\u00a0 Is there a way to make a just PredPol system or will it always be unjust?\u00a0 In what ways do America’s historical legacies of racism feed into these stories?\u00a0 In some ways we think of digital technology, with its 1s and 0s as being totally objective.\u00a0 Is this really so?\u00a0 Is it important that Joy Buolamwini puts her story in historical terms?\u00a0 In what ways can the Coded Gaze be fought?\u00a0 Do you see some themes we have talked about in class in Ruha Benjamin’s talk?\u00a0 What is Jim Code?\u00a0 \u00a0Benjamin says “Innovation goes hand in hand with inequity.”\u00a0 She also claims that today in the guise of neutrality we are perpetuating racial inequality.\u00a0 Do you agree?\u00a0 Is the problem technology or our society?\u00a0 What does that mean for you as a budding engineer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kashmir Hill, “Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm,”\u00a0 New York Times,\u00a0June 24, 2020 How AI Reinforces Bias in the Criminal Justice System Joy Buolamwini,,Compassion through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias Ruha Benjamin, Technology and Race, Factually Podcast\u00a0 Optional–(Better Off Ted segment referenced in podcast) Redlining Map of Charlotte What went wrong that Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was arrested?\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}