Because Technology Discriminates: Anti-Racist Counter-Expertise

Author:   Logan D. A. Williams
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Volume:   27
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9783031278709


Pages:   159
Publication Date:   02 April 2024
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Author:   Logan D. A. Williams
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Volume:   27
ISBN:  

9783031278709


ISBN 10:   3031278704
Pages:   159
Publication Date:   02 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Race, Gender and the Myth of Technological Incompetence.- Your diverse design team is very competent: how to lead relationally.- The race audit: mitigating environmental racism in civil infrastructure.- Data racism, machine learning and the importance of context in design.- Designing sustainable organizations to create ethical designs.

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Logan D. A. Williams is a science and technology studies scholar who investigates knowledge from the margins. In addition to her science and technology studies PhD, she has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. For her MS thesis she designed an ultrasound medical imaging technology. Her first book was a multi-sited global ethnography (India, Nepal, Mexico, Kenya, US). It highlighted the innovations created by ophthalmologists and engineers in South Asia and circulated to eradicate avoidable blindness among the world’s poor. More generally, her work explores technology users, technology design and technology governance typically in health and information technologies. She has previously been a tenure track professor in Lyman Briggs College and Sociology at Michigan State University and a lecturer in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park.

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