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Charlton McIlwain

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NYU Vice Provost | NYU Media Professor | Author | Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies | My New Book: Black Software: amzn.to/2lXNDcp

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Algorithmic discrimination: a grounded conceptualization

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By Matthew Bui, Charlton McIlwain, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Seyi Olojo
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT This paper extends the literature on algorithmic discrimination to analyze the racialized harms and outcomes of online targeting. In addition to providing a genealogy, we argue that targeted ads are apparatuses designed to discriminate: to find patterns based on past racial trends; and selectively expose communities to resources (while excluding others), under promises of personalization and optimization.
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The Code That Created Today’s Racist System of Police Surveillance

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By Charlton McIlwain
| New America
This is an excerpt from “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World, edited by Torie Bosch. Copyright © 2022 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted with permission from Princeton University Press. In the early 1960s, the Black civil rights revolution raged in the streets across the United States. This quest to build a more racially just and equitable society happened right alongside the computer revolution.
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The 1960s Police Beat Algorithm and modern law enforcement surveillance.

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By Charlton McIlwain
| Slate Verified
Excerpted from “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World edited by Torie Bosch. Copyright © 2022 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, Future Tense will host a free happy hour event in Washington at New America to celebrate the release of You Are Not Expected to Understand This. Learn more and RSVP here.
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