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Gender and women’s power(lessness) in the digital era: who programmes the AI? 📚 Resources
Gender and women’s power(lessness) in the digital era: who programmes the AI?
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1: GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY – AN OVERVIEW OF THE POWER DYNAMIC
📖 Part 1: Introduction to Gender in Technology
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📖 Part 2: The Role of Women in Programming and AI Development
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📖 Part 3: Gender Bias in AI and Algorithms
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CHAPTER 2: THE IMPACT OF AI ON SOCIETAL POWER STRUCTURES
📖 Part 1: AI and Gender Power Dynamics
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📖 Part 2: The Ethics of AI in Gender Context
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📖 Part 3: Strategies for Enhancing Women’s Power Through Technology
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CHAPTER 3: Leading Digital Change for Gender Equity
📖 Part 1: Creating Inclusive Tech Spaces
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📖 Part 2: Policy Changes for Gender Equity in Technology
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📖 Part 3: Future Directions — Women Leading Change in AI
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GENDER AND WOMEN’S POWER(lessness) IN THE DIGITAL ERA: WHO PROGRAMMES THE AI?
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  • Wajcman, Judy. TechnoFeminism. Polity Press, 2004.
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  • Beyer, Kurt W. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. MIT Press, 2009. MIT Press
  • Light, Jennifer S. “When Computers Were Women.” Technology and Culture, vol. 40, no. 3, 1999, pp. 455–483. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1999.0128
  • Buolamwini, Joy. “How I’m Fighting Bias in Algorithms.” TEDxBeaconStreet, Nov. 2016. https://www.ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini_how_i_m_fighting_bias_in_algorithms
  • “Defrag: The Feminist Internet Digital Clinic.” Somerset House. https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/defrag-feminist-internet-digital-clinic
  • Buolamwini, Joy, and Timnit Gebru. “Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification.” Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 81, 2018, pp. 1–15. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html
  • Dastin, Jeffrey. “Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias against Women.” Reuters, 10 Oct. 2018. Direct Link
  • O’Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Crown, 2016.
  • de Miguel Beriain, Iñigo, et al. Auditing the Quality of Datasets Used in Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems. European Parliamentary Research Service, 2022. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2022)729541
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