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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

By Sara , Wachter-Boettcher

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton Company
Year
2017
ISBN
9780393634631, 9780393634648, 0393634639
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
5 MB (5417533 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
232 pages cm\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:21:46
Nonfiction;Science;Technology;Feminism;Design;Busi

Description

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 Wrongdemystifies 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.

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