Whether you're an expert or completely new to the realm of data feminism, the DFN book club is a great place to deepen your knowledge and learn from our diverse community.
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Eager to read these rad data feminist books? Our FREE study guides can serve as a supporting resource to help you absorb key themes and concepts.
Invisible Women
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Race After Technology
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Data Feminism
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Weapons of Math Destruction
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Algorithms of Oppression
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Past Book Club Picks
Algorithms of Oppression
by Safiya Noble (Book)
November 2022
Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez (Book)
February - March 2022
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.
The Costs of Connection
by Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias
November 2021
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation.
Automating Inequality
October 2021
Today, automated systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. Automating Inequality systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
Data Feminism
by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
July - September 2021 (3 Part Series)
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, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.
Coded Bias
May 2021
A documentary that exposes the impact of gender and racially biased facial recognition algorithms and artificial intelligence, and the threat it poses to civil liberties.
Fatphobia and Diet Culture with Virgie Tovar
The Lavern Cox Show (Podcast)
March 2021
Writer, fat activist and podcast host Virgie Tovar teaches us about the roots of fatphobia and the many pitfalls of diet culture. She and Laverne cover everything from discrimination to health care, white supremacy and social policing.
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