Safiya Umoja Noble PhD

@safiyanoble

New book, Algorithms of Oppression Researcher, professor @ UCLA, expert on racism, sexism, info & tech. Organizing

Los Angeles, California
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    2 Feb 2018

    Shameless plug: If everyone bought one right now for themselves, and one for a friend, this book could have a chance at improving the internet for women and people marginalized by tech...

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    Aug 4

    I'm reading ”Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism“ by while considering the recent incidents of in the US and the ways in which information gatekeepers are complicit.

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    Aug 1

    Remember after the fat free 1990s when you tried 2% milk and thought it was the most delicious, decadent thing you ever tasted? Let's not do this with Marianne Williamson.

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    Aug 1

    "Nearly all of the largest manufacturers of wearable heart rate trackers [e.g. Fitbit, Samsung watch, etc.] rely on technology that could be less reliable for consumers who have darker skin" h/t

    Nearly all consumer devices that track heart rate rely on optical sensors that continuously monitor the volume of your blood. In between beats, there is less blood volume at your wrist, and therefore more light that is reflected back to the sensor. But not all devices rely on the same kind of light. Fitbits, Samsung watches, and several other brands rely on only green lights. These lights are simpler and cheaper to
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    Jul 30

    From the always dope Preorders available now!!!

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    Jul 30

    Including often introducing them to known-bad environments with hostile “colleagues.”

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    Jul 30

    I find it the height of cynicism that university administrators trip over themselves paying lip service to hiring faculty of color, especially WOC, and then do absolutely nothing to foster their careers once hired.

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    Jul 30

    ‘As the research of Jemimah L. Young and Dorothy E. Hines has shown, "toxic" classrooms, "personal attacks," and "hate emails" really are killing the souls of black women on campus.’

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    Jul 30

    “People who are tempted to ask ‘Where are all the black faculty?’ need to understand that no cluster-hire or diversity policy in the world will increase the number of black women at the full-professor rank, if the campus environment is hostile, abusive...”

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    Jul 28

    So what are you doing to protect and improve your mental health? Because we can’t just ignore what’s happening. We have to confront this mess head on. Do you have a professional therapist? Are you taking medicines you’ve been prescribed? Are you communing with nature?

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    Jul 28

    Mental health—and its physiological impacts—can’t be sidelined in our struggle. It has to be at the core of it. It has to be at the core of our living and our communities. It may be the most important thing that we do, especially for people targeted by America’s toxic systems.

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    Jul 28

    My point is that as much as this is a political battle, there is a battle for our mental health. Psychological stress ultimately can be very toxic to our bodies and our minds. We must center mental health in our struggle, especially folks under duress from multiple stressors.

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    Jul 28

    Second, research by sister scholar Morgan Maxwell highlights the dangers of social media and exposure to racism in her dissertation “Rage and Social Media.” This is connected to race-based traumatic stress discussed by & .

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    Jul 27

    American communication and media studies scholars take note of this exciting opportunity to escape to Canada in 2020. Pls share in your networks // thx...

    The School of Journalism & Communication is recruiting a Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Public Affairs in North America: Society, Policy, Media. Perfect opportunity for an American media and communications scholar. Come to Canada!
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    Jul 25

    . has written an important book. Thanks to . for giving me an opportunity to write about it.

    "Social media users are also the victimizers of the content moderators, for not only do we feed the endless review queue that demands their labor but we also originate the hateful and damaging content to which we and they are subjected." writes:
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    Jul 26

    Met first time at a mind boggling lecture about bias in algorithms. LA-trip was a good excuse to catch up and talk possible paths for 🌐 collaboration with on responsible tech💾.

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    Jul 26

    Wrapped up a very engaging session on at event at , . Audience loved the term . I had quotes from and 's books. This was my small contribution in bringing in awareness of in

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    Jul 25

    Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities by ⁦⁩ PART I, Chapter 2 in “Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019” on Manifold

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    Jul 25
    Replying to and

    In addition, special volumes on the Digital Black Atlantic (edited by and ) and Global DH (edited by and Sukanta Chaudhuri) coming soon.

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    Jul 22

    Germany just banned its schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from , , and for privacy reasons:

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    Jul 24

    . argues that the history of scholarly metrics should be thought of as a branch of studies of algorithms and bias, e.g. high-profile recent work of

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