{"id":2083,"date":"2015-06-19T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:06","slug":"is-the-internet-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/06\/19\/is-the-internet-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Internet racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trending project called <a href=\"http:\/\/worldwhiteweb.net\/\">worldwhite.ne<\/a>t is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of &#8216;inherent <a href=\"http:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/sew\/news\/2410357\/-world-white-web-seeks-to-diversify-google-image-search\">racism in Google image searches&#8217;.<\/a>\u00a0 This follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/may\/20\/google-apologises-racist-google-maps-white-house-search-results\">earlier controversy regarding Google maps <\/a>and a 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/1301\/1301.6822.pdf\">Harvard University study<\/a> which concluded that if you searched for a name statistically more likely to belong to a black person you\u00a0 would were more likely to retrieve results relating to crime and criminal arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trending project called worldwhite.net is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of &#8216;inherent racism in Google image searches&#8217;.\u00a0 This follows earlier controversy regarding Google maps and a 2013 Harvard University study which concluded that if you searched for a name statistically more likely to belong to a black person you\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,15],"tags":[234,61,241,108,243],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-criminology","tag-internet","tag-media-and-communication","tag-racism","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}