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In this episode we introduce the pod, discuss Safiya Noble's groundbreaking 2018 book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, take a look at the NYPL CulturePass program, and get to know how some new grad students decided on the UW-Madison iSchool!

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Audio clip sources:

Donavan, Joan. (2018, May 15.) Algorithms of Oppression. Data & Society Research Institute.
Retrieved from https://listen.datasociety.net/algorithms-of-oppression/
Elevator Speech (00:09 - 00:39) Titling of book (30:52 - 32:01)

Dr. Joan Donavan (the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center) interviews Dr. Safiya Noble for the Data & Society Research Institute. “Data & Society Research Institute advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.” https://datasociety.net/

Chamseddine, Roqayah and Salehi, Kumars. (2018, April 12.) Algorithms of Oppression. Delete Your Account. Retrieved from https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/algorithms-of-oppression Impetus for the book (07:52 - 09:22) Radicalization (21:39 - 24:15)

Hanselman, Scott. (2019, February 1.) Episode 66: Exploring Algorithms of Oppression. Hanselminutes. Retrieved from https://hanselminutes.com/669/exploring-algorithms-of-oppression-with-dr-safiya-noble Discussion of STEM student education (14:47 - 16:45)

Article/Book Sources:

Noble, Safiya Umoja. (2018.) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press.

Wajcman, Judy. (2010, January.) Feminist theories of technology. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(1), 143–152. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/ben057

Roose, Kevin. (2019, June 8.) The Making of a YouTube Radical. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html

Additional Resources:

Collins, Patricia Hill. (2000.) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the

Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.

The Combahee River Collective. (1979.) A Black Feminist Statement. https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html

Weill, Kelly. (2018, December 19.) How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the

Far-Right. The Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-youtube-pulled-these-men-down-a-vortex-of-far-right-hate

Noble, Safiya Umoja. ([2018]) How biased are our algorithms? TEDx University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuJ8yQf6dI

Noble, Safiya Umoja. (2016.) Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression. Personal Democracy Forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVZozEEWlE

Current Events:

Nancy Coleman, "Libraries’ Culture Pass Signs Up 70,000 in First Year" New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/arts/design/culture-pass-library-new-york.html. 8/13/19.

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