Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech /

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright et...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wachter-Boettcher, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic Audio
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923, [2017]
Subjects:
System failures (Engineering)
Business failures.
Technology > Social aspects.
New products > Moral and ethical aspects.
Pannes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Electronic audio books.
Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Livres audio.
Online Access:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to the machine
  • Culture misfit
  • Normal people
  • Select one
  • Delighted to death
  • Tracked, tagged, and targeted
  • Algorithmic inequity
  • Built to break
  • Meritocracy now, meritocracy forever
  • Technically dangerous.

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