Have you ever wondered why facial recognition software fails more often to identify Black faces than white faces? Or if Google is really showing you the most relevant search results?
We’ll take up these questions and more in LIS 360: Information and Oppression in the Digital World. We’ll identify how sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression are reinforced through the digital technologies we’ve come to depend on, but also to reimagine how those tools can be reworked, recoded, reinvented, and used differently in order to promote social justice and equity in both the digital and physical world.
Topics will include:
- Predictive policing
- Algorithmic bias in the criminal justice system (bail determination, sentencing, and parole)
- Racial bias in facial recognition software
- How artificial intelligence differs from human minds
- Feminist critiques of scientific knowledge
- The ethical use of generative AI
- Representations of Black women in online search results
- Bias in library discovery systems
Approved for general education capacity Equity, Diversity & Inclusion or University studies Strand J.
Fall | CRN 1233 | M/W 3:30–5:20 pm
