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The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? Meredith Broussard demonstrates in More Than a Glitch how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable. Broussard, a data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, masterfully synthesizes concepts from computer science and sociology.

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. 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.

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. Beginning with the simultaneous rise of civil rights and computer revolutions in the 1960s, McIlwain, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet.

In the movies, robots can be terrifying. In reality, thinking machines are disrupting the world in ways that are even more disturbing than in Hollywood fantasies - but they also have the potential to change our lives for the better. In this stirring, visionary work, acclaimed roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard explores how the tech world’s racial and sexual biases are infecting the next generation of Artificial Intelligence, with profoundly negative effects for humans of all genders and races.

Es ist ein weitreichendes Urteil in einem tragischen Fall: Eine 14-Jährige stirbt, die Eltern quält die Frage nach dem Warum. Im Facebook-Profil ihrer Tochter hoffen sie auf eine Antwort. Doch lesen, was das Mädchen dort geschrieben hat, dürfen sie nicht. Ein Gericht verweigert ihnen den Zugang, um die Privatsphäre derer zu schützen, mit denen die 14-Jährige Kontakt hatte. Mit dem Urteil verbunden sind grundsätzliche Fragen: Wenn ein Mensch stirbt - wer kümmert sich um seinen digitalen Nachlass? Müssen Erben Chatverläufe oder E-Mails anders behandeln als Briefe?