“...large technologies such as Google need to be broken up and regulated, because their consolidated power and cultural influence make competition largely impossible. This monopoly in the information sector is a threat to democracy...” InternetRacismOppressionArtificial IntelligenceGoogleFacebookSystemic RacismAnticapitalismSearch EnginesCritical Librarianship Book:Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Source: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
“If one holds power, one can withstand or buffer misrepresentation at a group level and often at the individual level. Marginalized and oppressed people are linked to the status of their group and are less likely to be afforded individual status and insulation...” RacismSexismGoogleRepresentationMisrepresentationSocial CapitalSearch Engines Author:Safiya Umoja Noble
“The implications of such marginalization are profound. The insights about sexist and racist biases... are important because information organizations, from libraries to schools and universities to governmental agencies, are increasingly reliant on being displaced by a variety of web-based "tools" as if there are no political, social, or economic consequences of doing so.” InformationRacismOppressionSexismGoogleFacebookSearch EnginesCritical Librarianship Book:Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Source: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism