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NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture - Taking on Big Tech: New Paradigms for New Possibilities

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Air date:	Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 495 (384 Live, 111 On-demand)
Category:	Special
Runtime:	00:59:17
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Description:	National Library of Medicine Lecture on Science, Technology & Society The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new demands are increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical scholars continue to demonstrate how many technologies are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, or lacking positionality. Technologies hold racial, gender, and class politics. In this talk, Dr. Safiya Noble from the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry will discuss new insights stemming from her recent book, Algorithms of Oppression, and posit emerging work that explores the impact of commercial technologies on the public. Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She holds affiliations in the School of Education & Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the “Genius Award”) for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination, which prompted her founding of a non-profit, Equity Engine, to accelerate investment in companies, education, and networks driven by women of color. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. The Annual NLM Lecture on Science, Technology, and Society aims to seed conversations across the library, the NIH, and the border biomedical research community as we seek to fulfill our commitment to advance biomedical discovery and human health for the benefit of all.

NLM Title:	Taking on big tech : new paradigms for new possibilities / Dr. Safiya Noble.
Author:	Noble, Safiya Umoja. National Library of Medicine (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new demands are increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical scholars continue to demonstrate how many technologies are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, or lacking positionality. Technologies hold racial, gender, and class politics. In this talk, Dr. Safiya Noble from the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry will discuss new insights stemming from her recent book, Algorithms of Oppression, and posit emerging work that explores the impact of commercial technologies on the public. Dr. Safiya Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She holds affiliations in the School of Education & Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the "Genius Award") for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination, which prompted her founding of a non-profit, Equity Engine, to accelerate investment in companies, education, and networks driven by women of color. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. The Annual NLM Lecture on Science, Technology, and Society aims to seed conversations across the library, the NIH, and the border biomedical research community as we seek to fulfill our commitment to advance biomedical discovery and human health for the benefit of all.
Subjects:	Algorithms Databases as Topic Search Engine Social Discrimination Sociological Factors
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	ZA 4230
NLM ID:	9918367461706676
CIT Live ID:	44648
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44648

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