Meredith Broussard: For a long time, we pretended that technology was neutral or objective, and it is not. Today I’m going to be talking with her and with data journalist and professor Meredith Broussard. Monita Bell: That’s researcher and journalism professor Betsy O’Donovan. People used this concept to describe television back in the 1970s, and almost half a century later, you could say it applies perhaps even more so to the internet.īetsy O’Donovan: Most of us could stand to take a moment and really pause whenever we’re taking an action on the internet and ask ourselves, “What am I giving away and who benefits?” Monita Bell: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.

ProPublica: ' Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race'.

Penelope Abernathy: The Expanding News Desert.

The Guardian: ' Fortnite maker pulls ads over YouTube 'paedophile ring' claims'.

Student Press Law Center: ' A legal victory for the student press in Kentucky's ongoing battle for open records'.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: The Eagle Eye (student newspaper).

WNYC On the Media: The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook.

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer: ' F is For Future: How to Think about Public Media's Next 50 Years' (Knight Foundation).

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer: Nieman Lab.Website | Twitter | Western Washington University: Journalism The Mind Online: Episode Three: Did You Google It?.Ruha Benjamin: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.

Safiya Noble: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.ProPublica: ' Machine Bias: There's software used across the country to predict future criminals.The Atlantic: ' Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer.The Verge: ' How computers misunderstand the world'.Meredith Broussard: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.

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