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Commentary and Criticism

Algorithms for “hers”: in whose interests?

 

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Notes

1. With Dr Simon Yuill https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/value-and-values-interaction-infrastructures-and-accumulation/and for a full description see public lecture “You are being tracked, evaluated and sold: Digital Inequalities”, http://www.lse.ac.uk/International-In/Videos-Podcasts/You-Are-Being-Tracked

2. See the hilarious novel “Red Plenty” (Francis Spufford Citation2010) and the review by Nick Dyer-Witheford Citation2013

3. See Sara Harrison (Citation2019)

4. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/equityDiversityInclusion/2017/09/wake-up-algorithms-are-trawling-your-phone-while-you-sleep/

5. See: https://www.palantir.com/about/. Palantir was established by Peter Theil, Donald Trump’s tech advisor, a Facebook founder, founder of PayPal (to de-regulate finance across national borders), a well-known libertarian, who once argued in the Stanford Review that women should not be given the vote. As a key algo designer one could argue that his interests do not align with A4 H.

6. On predictive policing see Mark Andrejevic Citation2013.

8. http://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Videos-Podcasts/You-Are-Being-Tracked Women’s Budget Group Report (Citation2019) Household Debt and Gender hhtps://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DEBT-2019.pdf

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