Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is a researcher whose work delves into the ethical and societal impacts of digital media and algorithms. Her sociological and interdisciplinary research illuminates how technology shapes and is shaped by issues of race, gender, and culture. Noble focuses on search engine ethics, racial and gender biases in algorithms, and the socio-cultural, economic, and ethical implications of information in society. Her scholarship is crucial for understanding how digital platforms influence and reflect complex relationships between power, culture, and technological design.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the power of algorithms -- A society, searching -- Searching for Black girls -- Searching for people and communities -- Searching for protections from search engines -- The future of knowledge in the public -- The future of information culture -- Conclusion: algorithms of oppression -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
This volume provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures might be implicated in global economic, political, and social systems of control.