DTC 475 - Spring 2023

  Representations are not just a matter of mirrors, reflections, key-holes. Somebody is making them, and somebody is looking at them, through a complex array of means and conventions. Nor do representations simply exist on canvas, in books, on photographic paper or on screens: they have a continued existence in reality as objects of exchange; they have a genesis in material production.66 Noble, Safiya Umoja.  Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism , New York University Press, 2018.  ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wsu/detail.action?docID=4834260. Created from wsu on 2023-02-25 01:00:16. With how the common race-based search results come out, it can be said that there is a lot of misrepresentation of various races across various search engines, but the biggest offender of this matter would still have to be google; As it is the most commonly used search engine, it holds the biggest responsibility to correct this. In most...

  Those assumptions are dangerously flawed; . . . unpacking the black box of the search engine is something of interest not only to technologists and marketers, but to anyone who wants to understand how we make sense of a newly networked world. Search engines have come to play a central role in corralling and controlling the ever-growing sea of information that is available to us, and yet they are trusted more readily than they ought to be. They freely provide, it seems, a sorting of the wheat from the chaff, and answer our most profound and most trivial questions. They have become an object of faith.5 Noble, Safiya Umoja.  Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism , New York University Press, 2018.  ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wsu/detail.action?docID=4834260. Created from wsu on 2023-02-21 23:54:35.  In the modern day and age, search engines are everything to those with access to the internet; It's at the point ...