Image source: Gisela Giardino, Flickr Concern with the role Facebook may or may not have played in swaying the outcome of the U.S. election have given the politics of algorithms a renewed platform in public and media discourse. Critical engagements with algorithmic decision making, a lack of algorithmic accountability, and instances of algorithmic discrimination, however, did not emerge with this election, nor are they confined to the echo chambers consumers/voters inhabit on social media.
“Big data and the algorithmic decisions it feeds permeate citizenship, healthcare, welfare states, education, finance, law enforcement as well as the ways in which we shop, travel, and live our social lives. They can take on a benign air of innovation and efficiency but also carry an intrinsic baggage of surveillance and control.“
Read this full feminist talk in GenderIT.org .