The Resource Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech, Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech, Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Summary
- "A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products--and harm us all. Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed the way they are. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares: Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars. Sara Wachter-Boettcher takes an unflinching look at the values, processes, and assumptions that lead to these and other problems. Technically Wrong demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use--and demand more from the companies behind them."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 232 pages
- Contents
-
- Welcome to the machine
- Culture misfit
- Normal people
- Select one
- Delighted to death
- Tracked, tagged, and targeted
- Algorithmic inequity
- Built to break
- Meritocracy now, meritocracy forever
- Technically dangerous
- Isbn
- 9780393634631
- Label
- Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech
- Title
- Technically wrong
- Title remainder
- sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech
- Statement of responsibility
- Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products--and harm us all. Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed the way they are. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares: Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars. Sara Wachter-Boettcher takes an unflinching look at the values, processes, and assumptions that lead to these and other problems. Technically Wrong demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use--and demand more from the companies behind them."--Dust jacket
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- Title
- Technically wrong
- Summary
- Explores the ways in which technology can fail its users by returning unethical, inaccurate, and biased information and argues that technology design needs to be modified to be of better service
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10574519
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 303.48/34
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TA169.5
- LC item number
- .W33 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- Target audience
- adult
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- sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech
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- sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech
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- Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Label
- Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech, Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Welcome to the machine -- Culture misfit -- Normal people -- Select one -- Delighted to death -- Tracked, tagged, and targeted -- Algorithmic inequity -- Built to break -- Meritocracy now, meritocracy forever -- Technically dangerous
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- ocn993134234
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- Dimensions
- 21 cm
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393634631
- Lccn
- 2017031829
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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