The Jordan Lecture: Safiya Noble

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Time 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where Wang Campus Center Cow Chair Room (104);
Wang Campus Center Tishman Commons (105)

Dr. Safiya Noble is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the inaugural
NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award, and author of the highly acclaimed Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). She is an internet studies scholar and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Faculty Director for the Center on Race & Digital Justice and the Co-Director for the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power, and where she Co-Founded the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She and her work have been featured in Time, The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, Wired, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among many others. Her talks and research focus on the ways that digital media impacts our lives and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology.

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