A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from the MIT Libraries. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police,…
In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by compani…
Analyzing the strategic manuevers of today's great information powers -- Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T-- Wu encovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
Undeniably, Asian societies are in a period of transition, when people are learning to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs) - whether in commerce, government or development work.