From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha BENJAMIN CUTS THROUGH
TECH-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can
reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity, in her latest
book, _Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim
Code._Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story
of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to
hide, speed up and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and
even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era.
Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a
range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly
amplifying racial hierarchies.
This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech
promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it
challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but
also the ones we ourselves manufacture.
Books available at the event.
Ruha Benjamin is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at
Princeton University, studying the social dimensions of science,
technology and medicine. Benjamin is also the founder of the JUST DATA
Lab and the author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and
Race After Technology (Polity) and editor of Captivating Technology
(Duke). She writes, teaches and speaks widely about the relationship
between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.
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Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St., San Francisco
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Free
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