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"But where data mining is used to aid decisions, it has the potential to reproduce existing patterns of discrimination, inherit the prejudice of prior decisionmakers, or simply reflect the widespread biases that persist in society."
Internet-plus-other-library-stuff in a box.
And now for something not so very different The subtitle of this blog talks about four archivists’ battles with legacy description. And it’s true that what we have in common is that we&…
There's a pretty good argument for library-as-ISP in here, as well as library-as-publisher.
What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens in the conversation below, where Zetta Elliott [1] (below left), a black feminist writer of poetry, plays, essays, novels, and stories for children, ...
Excellent history of Wikipedia's iffy efforts to become less white-male-Western.
The Havasupai people, who live in the Grand Canyon, had claimed that university researchers misused their DNA.
Transgender people face many kinds of discrimination. Some are more obvious than others. The transgender community is four times as likely as the general population to have household incomes less than $10,000 per year, according to a report by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. It also […]
Figuring out the language on this one is messy. (It's Zulu, btw.) WTF does "audio in African" even mean?! Africa has hundreds of languages! See also http://watchindie.com/the-game-of-my-life.html
This month, our regular contributor Porchia Moore expands on the concept of Radical Trust she introduced in her last blog post for us. This form of trust is fundamental to her vision of the Kaleido…
Kara Walker, The Emancipation Approximation (Scene 18) This guest post was written by Porchia Moore, a third year doctoral candidate in...
On the politics of ontology construction.
On mesh networks.
There’s a wicked irony when it comes to many privacy advocates. They are often narrowly focused on the their own individual privacy issues, but when it comes down to it they are typically sup…
Adamich, T. (2009). Foreign Language Cataloging, Non-Native English Speakers, and Equitable Access. Technicalities , 29 (2), 7-11. Adl...
The progressive community claims to care passionately about issues of class and environment, and the intersections between. These issues are an important part of social justice movements, as they are intertwined with so much in our way of lives and how we interact with the world. One of the many areas in which they collide […]