Technology v. The People

In The Thick

Futuro Media

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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Algorithms, social media and technology are increasingly becoming a risk for communities of color. Maria and Julio talk about zeroes and ones with Surya Mattu, researcher with The MIT Center for Civic Media, and Jazmine Ulloa, reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

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0:00.0	is if you don't explicitly state the values you're putting into your technology,
0:05.0	they will imbue the values of the culture you live in. Hey what's up?
0:13.6	What's up?
0:14.6	Welcome to In The Thick.
0:15.7	This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective.
0:20.5	What up?
0:21.5	I'm Madhayana Hossack. What up? I'm h Nahosa. What up? I'm Holy Ricalo.
0:24.0	And joining us from Brooklyn is Suria Mathu.
0:28.0	He's a research scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media,
0:32.0	and he's a journalist in residence at Ibeam.
0:35.0	Hey Sonia, welcome to our show.
0:37.0	Hi, thanks for having me.
0:38.0	And joining us from Sacramento is Jasmine Uyoa.
0:41.0	She's a politics reporter with the LA Times and she still has a job at the
0:44.8	L.A. time. Yo, Jasmine, Bravo, welcome to the show.
0:48.0	Hi, thanks for having me. Okay. So we're going to talk about tech bias and how technology essentially can be used as a tool of discrimination towards people of color, towards activists, towards immigrants.
1:04.0	So I gotta tell you, I'm feeling like I'm living in a very dystopian reality.
1:08.0	Just everything about the United States of America right now feels to me very dystopian.
1:13.4	Yeah.
1:14.4	So I want to put that into the context, like it feels like a lot of those things that you would
1:17.8	go to the movies and watch, well I would, billions of years ago
1:21.2	before you guys were born. It feels like we're living in those
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