Parents and caregivers of children of color want books that reflect their children, as do librarians and teachers. It's time for reviewers to name the race and identity of a book's characters.

This is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called Insuetude (still ongoing), which is bringing media archaeologists together with stones-and-bones archaeologists. I started my talk with a bit of film, as a way of time-traveling to the middle...

Beloit College Anthropologist, Associate Professor Jennifer Esperanza was feeling frustrated. Why is there always images of "exotic" peoples on the cover of anthropology textbooks? "Why can't there be images of, for example, a group of white American women eating salads,...

Part 3 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy....

Study lays bare the fact that women are given far less dialogue than male actors – because it’s men who still get to tell the stories that form our cultural narratives

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While these films show women being strong, capable, and competent, their feats are all but erased in the toy aisle.

They are not a "they" at all, or for that matter, a "she." Instead, it's code that's been programmed to have a "female" persona. And that code has originated from companies where the workforce is overwhelmingly male.

2016 study published in Social Problems that looks at how female math and science teachers influence high school students’ decisions to major in STEM fields.

Brilliant source of first-person stories for Power II assignment.

Hey Cortana. Hey Siri. Hey girl.

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From Siri to Microsoft’s Tay, women’s voices are leading the AI frontier but we have no reason to believe the male-dominated industry understands us at all

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning   Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble discusses her research into Google, a
technology commonly thought of as a public resource free from commercial
interest, and the ways in which it mediates public access to
information in biased ways and permits problematic racial and gender
misrepresentations.  Sponsored by the Douglas College Faculty Professional Development Committee.
 
Speaker bio
Safiya Umoja Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education
and Information Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on socio-cultural
informatics, and feminist, historical and political-economic
perspectives on computing platforms and software in the public interest.
Her research is at the intersection of transnational culture and
technology in the design and use of applications on the internet. She is
currently writing a book about Google and Information bias (forthcoming
from NYU Press).

Study reveals that smartphones respond to emergencies with confusion, bad info.

A new study looks at Siri and other smartphone responses to health crises.

Author(s): Caswell, ML

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