Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech / Sara Wachter-Boettcher.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via O'Reilly/Safari)
Main Author: Wachter-Boettcher, Sara (Author)
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923, [2017]
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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.