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Meredith Broussard makes the argument for more sociology and intersectionality in AI in her new book

IBM brought 'Black high school dropouts from the inner city who had never held jobs' to New Bedford's Fort Rodman to participate in diversity training.

More than a Glitch from data journalist Dr.

Apollo 11, the JPEG, and yes, even the Roomba.

This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision between civil rights and computing technology that Willard Wirtz once predicted. If Black people had bothered to seriously engage Roy Wilkins’ admonition to “comp...

How Black communities shaped the internet An interview with Charlton McIlwain, author of Black Software Share this story As we’ve gone through the pandemic, I’ve been thinking about how much of our lives happen on screens and through software. We use software to connect with our friends, to play games, to move markets, and to catch criminals. Software isn’t eating the world; it’s eaten it. Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Charlton McIlwain, a professor of media, culture, and communic...