Algorithms of Oppression

by Safiya Nobles

"In the age of Neoliberalism, Algorithms "reinforces oppressive social relationships and enact new modes of racial profiling."

What is  Algorithmic Oppression?

Algorithms:

Mathematical formulas that drive automated decision-making.

Technological Redlining:

Practices that deepens racism and discrimination embedded in the technology that we so heavily rely on.

Algorithmic Oppression:

The unjust treatment of a group or groups of people at a systematic level through algorithmic-driven technology.

A Society, Searching

"Algorithmic Oppression is fundamental to the operating system of the web."

"The results can be affected by the majority and commercial influences."

"Information on the web is not always depoliticized and factual."

"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."

Searching for Black Girls

How Google Search reinforces stereotypes

Google's ranking system

How new media take advantage of SEO

“These characterizations translate from old media representations to new media forms. Structural inequalities of society are being reproduced on the Internet,”

The Youtube Shorts Rabbit hole

Proposed solutions

Educate and Regulate