[Libs-Or] Challenging Algorithms of Oppression: Black Annihilation and the Internet

[Kelly McElroy]

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will give a public
lecture on the subject, *Challenging Algorithms of Oppression: Black
Annihilation and the Internet*, on November 16, 2016, 3:30-5PM in the
Valley Library Rotunda at Oregon State University. You’ll find a poster
attached -- please share with anyone you think will be interested.


The circulation of surveillance videos and images of African Americans
murdered or detained by police and private security has been enhanced by
the spectacle of new media. This new research, building upon my previously
published research about Trayvon Martin in *The Black Scholar*, argues that
media spectacles are created by surveillance records to foster news ratings
and advertising revenues at the expense of national conversations and
public policy addressing racial justice. The use of digital technologies
has become an enticing way of giving voice to marginalization and
oppression, but technological engagements are an insufficient intervention
on racist, sexist, and systemic economic oppression. In this talk, Safiya
Umoja Noble will discuss the importance of the academic-activist scholarly
community to offer models of intervention through research and teaching,
and the importance of examining the consequences and affordances of
information and technology projects.



Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an assistant professor in the Department of
Information Studies <http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/> in the Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies <http://gseis.ucla.edu/> at UCLA
<http://www.ucla.edu/>. She also holds appointments in the Departments of
African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. Her research on
the design and use of applications on the Internet is at the intersection
of race, gender, culture, and technology. She is currently working on a
monograph on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in search engines like
Google (forthcoming, NYU Press). She currently serves as an Associate
Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies
<http://libraryjuicepress.com/journals/index.php/jclis>, and is the
co-editor of two books: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and
Class Online
<http://www.amazon.com/Intersectional-Internet-Culture-Digital-Formations/dp/1433130009?ie=UTF8&keywords=safiya%20noble&qid=1462818073&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1>
(Peter Lang, Digital Formations, 2016), and Emotions, Technology & Design
<http://www.amazon.com/Emotions-Technology-Design/dp/0128018720?ie=UTF8&keywords=safiya%20noble&qid=1462818092&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2>
(Elsevier, 2015).



Support for this event comes from OSU Libraries & Press, the College of
Engineering, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, the School of Language,
Culture and Society, Queer Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Ethnic
Studies, and the Office of Institutional Diversity.



Questions about the event, including requests for accommodations, can be
made to Lindsay Marlow at lindsay.marlow at oregonstate.edu or by phone at
(541) 737-2376.
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