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Race After Technology: by Ruha Benjamin, Polity Press, UK and USA, 2019, £11.99, IBSN-13: 978-1-5095-2639-0
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This article read this book against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK during this time.Abstract:
I read this book against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. During this time in the UK several high-profile reports ...read more
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Civil liberties or public health, or civil liberties and public health? Using surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of COVID-19
TL;DR: To help tackle the spread of COVID-19, a range of surveillance technologies such as smartphone apps, facial recognition and thermal cameras, biometric wearables, smart helmets, drones, and predictive anal...
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Race in the Microbiome
TL;DR: This research is examined to argue that social scientists must work with biological scientists to help put microbial differences into perspective and investigate how microbiomes and race are entangled embodiments of the social, environmental, and biological.
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AI for climate: freedom, justice, and other ethical and political challenges
TL;DR: This article outlines and discusses issues, with a focus on problems concerning freedom and justice at a global level, and calls for responsible use of AI for climate in the light of these challenges.
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Of Techno-Ethics and Techno-Affects:
TL;DR: As digital labour becomes more widespread across the uneven geographies of race, gender, class and ability, and as histories of colonialism and inequality get drawn into these forms of labour, our...
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Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”
Nassim Parvin,Anne Pollock +1 more
TL;DR: This paper revisited the term "unintended consequences" to show how it can be used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns in technology design, and uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design.
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Civil liberties or public health, or civil liberties and public health? Using surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of COVID-19
TL;DR: To help tackle the spread of COVID-19, a range of surveillance technologies such as smartphone apps, facial recognition and thermal cameras, biometric wearables, smart helmets, drones, and predictive anal...
Journal ArticleDOI
Race in the Microbiome
TL;DR: This research is examined to argue that social scientists must work with biological scientists to help put microbial differences into perspective and investigate how microbiomes and race are entangled embodiments of the social, environmental, and biological.
Journal ArticleDOI
AI for climate: freedom, justice, and other ethical and political challenges
TL;DR: This article outlines and discusses issues, with a focus on problems concerning freedom and justice at a global level, and calls for responsible use of AI for climate in the light of these challenges.
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Of Techno-Ethics and Techno-Affects:
TL;DR: As digital labour becomes more widespread across the uneven geographies of race, gender, class and ability, and as histories of colonialism and inequality get drawn into these forms of labour, our...
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Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”
Nassim Parvin,Anne Pollock +1 more
TL;DR: This paper revisited the term "unintended consequences" to show how it can be used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns in technology design, and uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design.