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Donna Beasley is making history. For the first time in the publishing world, a digital-first book library has been launched to serve Black and Latino
"Threshold effects" worth looking into: point at which you see enough people engaging with something that you do too.
How not to entrepreneur.
[Click for Printable PDF] If a handful of time-travelling activists from our own era were somehow transported into a leftist political meeting in 1970, would they even be able to make themselves un…
The last few months have seen a spree of lawsuits filed against social media companies for allegedly providing material support to terrorists groups, particularly ISIS, by effectively allowing those
Algorithms, Like People, Discriminate Too
On May 28, 1945, Violet Wallach of Locust, New Jersey, complained that black residents in her area had to enter a back door in the Navesink township library. Once they entered, black would-be reade…
The Eric Loomis Case and Predictive Crime Assessments: When Algorithms Take the Stand - The Atlantic
A case soon to be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court considers algorithms' proper role in the courtroom—and beyond.
At San Francisco’s main branch, a balance of outreach and keeping a lookout
Preserving online media is a growing logistical and ethical question. But doing so may completely transform the way we remember the past.
Most people who don’t code don’t appreciate how hard it is to do right. Plenty of developers are perfectly functional, but to watch a…
Distrust spreads from unethical behavior. It has real consequences, to many more than the unethical researcher.
Google responded that its search algorithm mirrors the availability and frequency of online content. “This means that sometimes unpleasant portrayals of sensitive subject matter online can affect what image search results appear for a given query.”
A targeting system to find “preferred audiences” for posts, news stories, and videos won’t help publishers and groups connect to the well-known protest movement.