In this episode, Jill interviews Sahar Raza about her research examining the ways technology is used to support surveillance capitalism and the justice and prison system. Sahar introduces the sociotechnical lens and guides us through how to use it, and what it can reveal about surveillance in the digital age.
Transcripts can be found here:
https://gendersextech.opened.ca/2022/07/01/transcripts-for-episode-nine/
References:
Noble, Safiya (2018) Algoriths of oppression: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy, Broadway books. https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
Kimberlé Crenshaw “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1), 139-167 https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf
Microsoft taught a chatbot to be racist. https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist
Canadian Human Rights Commission
https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/en
Northpointe Crime Algorithm https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/equivant-compas-algorithm/550646/
Band, M., Marin, A., Faber, L., and Suzokovich, E.S., (2013) “Repatriating Indigenous Technologies in an urban Indian community, Urban Education,48(5), 705-733. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042085913490555
Bunz, M., and Meikle, G., (2018) The internet of things, Polity Press. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Internet+of+Things-p-9781509517466