Museum of Resistance and Resilience Main MenuPraxis #1: Curation and Annotation (Group Project)details of Praxis #1 assignmentPraxis #1.1 War, Memory, And Identity: Beyond Victims and Voice Museum of Resistance and ResilienceProfessor Marjory Wentworth Honor's Class at College of CharlestonPraxis #2 Media Intervention, Multimedia Essay (Individual Project)Entry 2 in our Museum of Resistance and ResiliencePraxis #3 Manifesto of Future Resistance and ResilienceMedia Intervention/Media PostsFinal Course Reflection - A Letter to the FutureDue November 18Vicki Callahanf68c37bed83f129872c0216fae5c9d063d9e11baLisa Müller-Tredecc71af55f5122020f2b95396300e25feb73b6995
Joy Buolamwini
12020-10-30T00:20:17-07:00Madeline Feng6c9aff376b328d3c03fc74d328de4d678ef5c0e9377842plain2020-10-30T00:20:29-07:00Madeline Feng6c9aff376b328d3c03fc74d328de4d678ef5c0e9Personally, I first heard of the term “algorithmic biases” from Joy Buolamwini’s ted talk, and it was truly an inspiration. She is an artist and a programmer graduated from MIT. One of her experiences working at the MIT Media Lab was with a facial recognizing system, and realizing that the system wouldn’t recognize a black female’s face like hers introduced her to the so-called “coded gaze”, her own word for algorithmic biases. From then on, Buolamwini has been fighting discriminatory practices resulted from algorithmic biases, knowing that instances like this only happen because people who coded the program didn’t initially include a broad range of facial structures, especially faces of people from minority groups. Bringing up inclusive coding, she encourages the tech community to welcome programmers from a larger range of racial, cultural backgrounds and is determined to fight the gap existing in the tech field that has been excluding female programmers. She even launched a website called “The Algorithmic Justice League”, sending out invitations to people who care, and people who have been suffering from the coded gaze to fight unfairness.