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Dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness

Racquel M. Gonzales
- 15 Mar 2016 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 544-546
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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: "how is the frame necessaril...
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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: “how is the frame necessaril...

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Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability

TL;DR: This article critically interrogates the ideal of transparency, traces some of its roots in scientific and sociotechnical epistemological cultures, and sketches an alternative typology of algorithmic accountability grounded in constructive engagements with the limitations of transparency ideals.
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

TL;DR: Hartman's Scenes of Subjection as discussed by the authors examines the apparent transformation from slavery to freedom in nineteenth-century America by paying particular attention to the antebellum and postbellum South.
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Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing:

TL;DR: In this paper, the intersection of two structural developments: the growth of surveillance and the rise of big data is examined, drawing on observations and interviews conducted within the Los Angeles area.
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Critical Race Theory for HCI

TL;DR: It is argued that racism is pervasive in everyday socio-technical systems; that the HCI community is prone to "interest convergence", where concessions to inclusion require benefits to those in power; and that the neoliberal underpinnings of the technology industry itself propagate racism.
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Better, Nicer, Clearer, Fairer: A Critical Assessment of the Movement for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

TL;DR: This paper uses frame analysis to examine recent high-profile values statements endorsing ethical design for artificial intelligence and machine learning and uncovers the grounding assumptions and terms of debate that make some conversations about ethical design possible while forestalling alternative visions.
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

TL;DR: Hartman's Scenes of Subjection as discussed by the authors examines the apparent transformation from slavery to freedom in nineteenth-century America by paying particular attention to the antebellum and postbellum South.
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Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the process of reading the body in the fields at the forefront of culture, the vast spaces mapped by science and technology, to show that body in high tech is as gendered as ever.
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Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

Lisa Nakamura
TL;DR: Nakamura et al. as discussed by the authors examined the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures in the Internet and found that non-white nonmales are portrayed as passive consumers or passive audience or consumers of digital media rather than as producers.
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journal of visual culture: Points of Departure: The Culture of US Airport Screening

TL;DR: Treating the airport checkpoint as part of the new security regime, the authors concentrates on three issues: first, it considers the working conditions of Transportation Security Agency (TSA) emp...
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Stripping for the State

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how discourses of technological efficiency and freedom of movement work to obscure the ever-expanding surveillance practices of the state, and demonstrate the disproportionate impact of whole body imaging technologies on particular communities, including the intersections of transgendered travelers, travelers with disabilities and racialized and re...