Black Technoscience: Ruha Benjamin in conversation with Timnit Gebru and Beth Coleman (Virtual)
Society for the Social Studies (4S) Plenary, Friday, October 8 at 3:00pm EST: Black Technoscience: Ruha Benjamin in conversation with Timnit Gebru and Beth Coleman (Virtual)
Ruha Benjamin specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology; race-ethnicity and gender; knowledge and power. She is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press 2013), Race After Technology (Polity 2019), and editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press 2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Additional reading:
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (ed. Ruha Benjamin, 2019) on bookshop.org
The National News, September 13, 2021: Is AI racist? Why more diversity is needed in the field of data science
