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Welcome to the #Metagame Book Club's educational look at Algorithms of Oppression and Surveillance Capitalism. Throughout June 2019 we covered each week's reading and discussed selected topics. Each week we provided a Hangout discussion.
Reading Materials:
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
What's an algorithm? Here's a 101 guide. It's a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do and contain 3 logical operations: AND, OR and NOT.
You may want to take a look at How to Teach Yourself About Algorithms.
We read and discussed algorithms, data justice and social action to include A Case for Critical Public Interest Technologists. Feel free to look over the material and use it for your own professional development. We've put a creative commons license on all of this book club, CC By-NC-SA. That means you remix, tweak and build on this non-commercially.
The book club ran through June 2019.
The main text was Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble.
Book review by Shelly Galliah from Michigan Technological University
We also included some selected reading from The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff as an optional text.
Here's Shoshana Zuboff's presentation at The Intercept on March 1, 2019.
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