Schedule > 7. Media Representation

Some questions for your consideration:

• How do media representation normalizes and/or resist how categories are assigned and/or what they mean?
• How do computing infrastructures challenge / produce / reproduce ideas about people in terms of the categories to which they belong?
• What is new (velocity, size, scale, granularity, ubiquity, centralization, etc. of categories) about transmission of symbols, imagery, and ideas about people and things? What has always been with us (fake news, stereotypes, etc.)?

Slides

• Representation, the Media, & Search

Readings

• Noble, Safiya Umoja (2018). Searching for black girls. Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism.
• (December 18, 2016). The Long and Brutal History of Fake News. Politico.

• Lam, Jenny (October, 2020). AR, Augmenting the Reality of Bias in Tech. Computing, Ethics, & Society Midterm Paper.
• Baum, Teá (October, 2020). Racial Capitalism in the Age of TikTok. Computing, Ethics, & Society Midterm Paper.
• Hall, Stuart (1995). Ch2. The whites of their eyes: Racist ideologies and the media. Gender, Race, & Class in Media.