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  INDEX

  Figures are indicated by italics.

  Adelsohn Liljeroth, Lena, 95, 97

  advertising: impact on society, 105–6; before the internet, 173–75; role in search results, 11, 16, 24, 36, 38, 54. See also commercial interests; search engine optimization

  advertising companies, 5, 50, 123; bias, 89, 105–6, 116; profit motive, 36, 124; role in search results, 24, 38, 40–41, 56. See also Google Search

  affirmative action, 12, 174

  African-American community, hair salon, 173–74

  African sexuality, 94–95

  Airbnb rental discrimination, 163

  algorithmic oppression, 1–2, 4, 10, 80, 84, 173

  algorithms: big data bias, 29, 31, 36; conceptualizations, 24; democratic practices online debunked, 49; discriminatory effect, 6, 13, 28, 85, 173, 175–76; perception of neutrality, 37, 44, 56, 171; “racist algorithms,” 9; reflection of programmers, 1, 26. See also Google PageRank; Kandis

  Ali, Kabir, 80

  Alphabet, 34–35; cultural imperialism, 86; expansion into surveillance technologies, 28

  Anderson, Benedict, 136

  Angwin, Julia, 27

  Anonymous (hacker group), 112, 194n4

  Anti-Defamation League, 42, 44, 157, 160

  “antidiversity” manifesto, 2

  Apple: labor condition in China, 164, 199n43; profiling in store, 163

  Arreola, Veronica, 155

  artificial intelligence, 1–2, 148; financial and housing crisis of 2008 role, 27; future criminality predictions, 27

  ArtStor, bias in metadata management, 145–47

  Ascher, Diana, 29

  Associated Press v. United States, 190n57

  Baa
rtman, Sara, 94–96, 100

  Bagdikian, Ben, 41

  Bar-Ilan, Judit, 47

  Barlow, John Perry, 61

  Baron, Jill, 134

  Battelle, John, 148

  Berger, John, 58

  Berman, Sanford, 139, 143–44

  bias. See advertising companies; algorithms; search engines; Twitter

  Bitch, 4, 181

  Black, Diane, 135

  Black feminism, 29–33, 92–93; antipornography rhetoric and scholarship, 100

  black feminist technology studies (BFTS), 171–72

  Black Girls (rock band), 69

  Black Girls Code, 26, 64–65

  ‘black girls’ search results, 17–21, 31, 49, 64, 66–68, 103, 160, 192n5; Chicago Urban League, 191n73; first search results, 3–4, 5; improvements, 10, 181–82; pornification, 11, 86

  Black Lives Matter, 165

  Black Looks (hooks), 92–94

  Black Scholar, 11

  Blanchette, Jean-François, 125, 128

  Brandeis University report, 167

  Brin, Sergey, 37, 38, 40–41, 44, 47

  Brock, André, 17–21, 91, 151

  Brown, Ronald, 104

  Cabos-Owen, Julie, 119

  Chicago Tribune, 134

  Chicago Urban League, 191n73

  Chin, Denny, 157

  classification schemes, 150; Eurocentrism, 141; misrepresentations of women and people of color, 5, 138; racial classification, 136–37, 149. See also Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

  Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers (CoFired), 135

  Cohen, Nicole, 154

  commercial influences, 16, 104

  commercial interests, 32, 36, 157, 179; gaming the system, 40–41; influence on journalism, 154; transparency, 50, 104

  ComputerWorld, 127

  comScore Media Metrix consumer panel, 35, 53

  ConsumerWatchdog.org, 56

  copyright, 50, 120, 129

  Crawford, Kate, 26

  critical race theory, 6, 61, 136, 138, 143, 150

  crowdsourcing, 188n27

  Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, 120

  Cyber Racism (Daniels), 116

  cyberspace, 61–62; #Gamergate comments, 63; mirror of society, 90–91; social identity, 104–5

 

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