Algorithmic racism

Alana Lentin

Algorithmic racism

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Burgeoning research into race, digital technology, and the Internet (Daniels 2009; Nakamura 2008; Sharma 2013) stresses that the digital both changes our understandings of race and creates new types of racial inequality (Nakamura and Chow-White 2012). Two main approaches to the implications of digital technology and the Internet for the question “What is race?” have dominated. According to the first, the “biotechnical turn . . . which privileges the technological and digital over other forms of knowledge, mediation, and interaction” (Nakamura and Chow-White 2012, 4) proves that race is first and foremost a matter of genetics, despite the dominance of social constructionism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data
Editors	Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D'Ignazio, Kristin Veel
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	The MIT Press
Pages	57-64
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9780262539883
Publication status	Published - 2021

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