Safiya Noble – Algorithms of Oppression
This talk is about the algorithms is oppressing certain groups of people. Actually, I think the algorithms are oppressing all of us. Because it uses the feature to measure people, and people shouldn’t be tagged. Due to the big data and algorithms “we have the tendency that computers make better decisions than human beings.” Women are coded as girls, woman of color are more likely to be mold as pornographic.
Ruha Benjamin – Race After Technology
This video talked about technical issues related to race. People in different colors and races are facing different interfaces. I like what she described imagination as a battlefield. And she gave us some examples like the police app. The purpose of the app is to report crime, but in reality, it became a tool of avoiding the crime. What people see about how dangerous an area is is dependent on the number of people imagined crime instead of real crime seems sarcastic to me.
Lisa Nakamura- Laboring infrastructures
This video is mostly around VR. She talked about people in the tech field who tried to use VR to create empathy, mostly by putting people into another person’s view and life. Such as refugees and other people who are having a hard life. This process is described by Romain Vak as a process of hacking your own body. And there are lots of people who are not able to turn the imagination into empathy, but something else.