McKenzie Salon Series: "Beyond Buzzwords"
The Stan McKenzie Salon Series Presents "Beyond Buzzwords: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society" featuring Ruha Benjamin.
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity--what she terms the "New Jim Code."
Ruha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and author of the award-winning book "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code," among many other publications.
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Open to the Public
Cost | FREE |
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