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Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech
- Title
- Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech / Sara Wachter-Boettcher.
- Author
- Wachter-Boettcher, Sara
- Publication
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- 232 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products--and harm us all. Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed the way they are. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares: Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars. Sara Wachter-Boettcher takes an unflinching look at the values, processes, and assumptions that lead to these and other problems. Technically Wrong demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use--and demand more from the companies behind them."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Technology > Social aspects
- System failures (Engineering)
- Business failures
- New products > Moral and ethical aspects
- COMPUTERS > Social Aspects
- Elektronische Überwachung
- Personenbezogene Daten
- Data Mining
- Privatsphäre
- COMPUTERS / Social Aspects
- COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Welcome to the machine -- Culture misfit -- Normal people -- Select one -- Delighted to death -- Tracked, tagged, and targeted -- Algorithmic inequity -- Built to break -- Meritocracy now, meritocracy forever -- Technically dangerous.
- Call Number
- TA169.5
- ISBN
- 9780393634631
- 0393634639
- LCCN
- 2017031829
- OCLC
- 993134234
- 993134234
- Author
- Wachter-Boettcher, Sara, author.
- Title
- Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech / Sara Wachter-Boettcher.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- *R-SIBL TA169.5 .W33 2017