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Amelia Gibson and Rua Williams explore academic scholarship and public discussion around disability access and accessibility and problematize the idea that disabled people truly have access to technology in contexts where they do not control technology.
Nathan Matias and Lucas Wright survey research to demonstrate the social justice implications of adaptive algorithms and consider how we might effectively assess the impact of human-algorithm feedback.
One Friday evening, while scrolling through Twitter, I saw an unusually long thread from a Black blogger/influencer I had been following for years. This person had been experiencing weeks of […]
How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and parcel to its initial conceit. Yet, this history is often forgotten and therefore remains unconnected to the current violence that this life-changing technology has enabled around the world.
Abstract: Critical tech ethics is my call for action to influencers, leaders, policymakers, and educators to help move our society towards centering race, deliberately and intentionally, to tech ethics. For […]
By Jenny Ungbha KornHannah Sassaman is a nationally recognized organizer and strategist at the intersection of technology, race, and inequality. As the campaign director at Prometheus Radio Project, Hannah led the grassroots organizing […]
Matt Mitchell is a hacker, founder CryptoHarlem, and tech fellow to the BUILD program at the Ford Foundation. In his work there Matt develops cybersecurity strategy for the foundation’s grantee […]
Ruha Benjamin is a professor in the Department of African American studies at Princeton University where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. She is also the […]
Moritz Hardt is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Prior to joining the institute, he was Associate Professor for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the […]
Maya Wiley is a University Professor and faculty member at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. Before joining the New School faculty, Wiley served as counsel to New […]
Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer. He is interested in developing intriguing new forms of expression by working on conceptual, critical, creative and technical levels […]