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2024 Emilie Jäger Lecture & Award: Algorithms of Oppression

2024 Emilie Jäger Lecture & Award: Algorithms of Oppression 001 Hochschulzentrum, vonRoll, Fabrikstrasse 6, 3012 Bern Tickets

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001 Hochschulzentrum, vonRoll, Bern (CH)

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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics, and in the service of something -- a position, a profit motive, a means to an end. 

In this talk, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her book, Algorithms of Oppression, and delve into issues ranging from marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search, to the profound power struggles that violate civil, human, and collective rights through AI and machine learning projects.

This event is free and open to the public. All portions of the event will be held in English, but the lecture slides will also be translated to German. 

Event Timeline

  • 2:45-3:00pm -- Doors open
  • 3:00-4:00pm -- Lecture
  • 4:00-4:30pm -- Discussion with
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*Click "show more" to see all event details including a German translation of the information below. 

 

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics, and in the service of something -- a position, a profit motive, a means to an end. 

In this talk, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her book, Algorithms of Oppression, and delve into issues ranging from marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search, to the profound power struggles that violate civil, human, and collective rights through AI and machine learning projects.

This event is free and open to the public. All portions of the event will be held in English, but the lecture slides will also be translated to German. 

Event Timeline

  • 2:45-3:00pm -- Doors open
  • 3:00-4:00pm -- Lecture
  • 4:00-4:30pm -- Discussion with Safiya Noble
  • 4:30-5:30pm -- Apéro & Book Signing

 

About the Speaker -- Professor Safiya Noble 

For the 3rd Annual Emilie Jäger Lecture, we welcome Professor Safiya U. Noble – the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Our esteemed speaker is also the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Finally, Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines – Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press) and was a 2020 nominee for the Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity.

 

About the Emilie Jäger Lecture

Emilie Jäger (1926-2011) was a geologist and the first female professor at the phil.-nat. Faculty. The Emilie Jäger Lecture – organized by the Aquatic Ecology & Evolution Lab and the Faculty's Equal Opportunities Commission – serves as a platform to discuss issues of equal opportunities and diversity at the University of Bern.

 

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Algorithmen der Unterdrückung: Wie Suchmaschinen Rassismus verstärken

Die Informationslandschaft verändert sich rapide. Neue Erfordernisse und Anforderungen drängen zunehmende Investitionen in digitale Technologien. Dennoch zeigen kritische informationswissenschaftler: innen kontinuierlich auf, wie die digitale Technologie und ihre Narrative von Werten geprägt und durchdrungen sind, die nicht unbefangen sind. Digitale Technologien bestehen aus einem Set sozialer Praktiken, die in die Dynamik von Rassifizierung, Geschlecht, Klasse und Politik eingebettet sind und einer bestimmten Sache dienen - einer Position, einem Profitmotiv, einem Mittel zum Zweck.

In diesem Vortrag wird Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble über ihr Buch Algorithms of Oppression sprechen und sich mit Themen befassen, die von der Marginalisierung und Falschdarstellung in kommerziellen Informationsplattformen wie der Google-Suche bis hin zu den tiefgreifenden Machtkämpfen reichen, die Bürger-, Menschen- und Kollektivrechte durch KI- und Machine-Learning-Projekte verletzen.

Die Veranstaltung ist öffentlich und der Eintritt ist frei. Die gesamte Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt, die Vortragsfolien werden jedoch auch auf Deutsch übersetzt.

Ablauf der Veranstaltung

  • 14:45-15:00 Uhr - Türöffnung
  • 15:00-16:00 Uhr - Präsentation
  • 16:00-16:30 Uhr - Diskussion mit Safiya Noble
  • 16:30-17:30 Uhr - Apéro und Buchsignierung

 

Über die Rednerin -- Prof. Safiya Noble

Zur 3. jährlichen Emilie-Jäger-Vorlesung begrüssen wir Professorin Safiya U. Noble - die David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences an der University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Sie ist außerdem Direktorin des Center on Race & Digital Justice und Co-Direktorin der Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power am UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Darüber hinaus ist Professor Noble die Autorin des Bestsellers „Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism" (NYU Press) über rassistische und sexistische Algorithmen in kommerziellen Suchmaschinen. Sie wurde 2020 für den Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity nominiert.

 

Über die Emilie-Jäger-Vorlesung

Emilie Jäger (1926-2011) war Geologin und die erste Professorin an der phil.-nat. Fakultät. Die Emilie Jäger Lecture - organisiert vom Aquatic Ecology & Evolution Lab und der Gleichstellungskommission der Fakultät - dient als Plattform, um Fragen der Chancengleichheit und Vielfalt an der Universität Bern zu diskutieren.

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University of Bern -- Aquatic Ecology & Evolution Lab and Equal Opportunity Commision