Jenna Burrell
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Automated decision-making as domination Open
Machine learning ethics research is demonstrably skewed. Work that defines fairness as a matter of distribution or allocation and that proposes computationally tractable definitions of fairness has been overproduced and overpublished. This…
View article: A Sociocultural Explanation of Internet-Enabled Work in Rural Regions
A Sociocultural Explanation of Internet-Enabled Work in Rural Regions Open
This article draws on ethnographic research in three rural places in the Western United States to understand how rural workers incorporate the Internet into their work practices. We find two key, divergent types of work in rural areas that…
On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon Open
In 2010 the mega-corporation Facebook finalized an agreement to build a massive data center in Prineville, a small town in central Oregon previously known for logging, cattle ranching, and as the headquarters of the Les Schwab tire company…
On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon Open
In 2010 the mega-corporation Facebook finalized an agreement to build a massive data center in Prineville, a small town in central Oregon previously known for logging, cattle ranching, and as the headquarters of the Les Schwab tire company…
View article: When Users Control the Algorithms
When Users Control the Algorithms Open
Recent interest in ethical AI has brought a slew of values, including fairness, into conversations about technology design. Research in the area of algorithmic fairness tends to be rooted in questions of distribution that can be subject to…
Friction, snake oil, and weird countries: Cybersecurity systems could deepen global inequality through regional blocking Open
In this moment of rising nationalism worldwide, governments, civil society groups, transnational companies, and web users all complain of increasing regional fragmentation online. While prior work in this area has primarily focused on issu…
Thinking relationally about digital inequality in rural regions of the U.S. Open
This article reconsiders the concept of digital inequality drawing from recent developments in science and technology studies, including evolving theories of materiality (Barad, 2003; Bennett, 2010; Ingold, 2012), work on critical media in…
Material Ecosystems: Theorizing (Digital) Technologies in Socioeconomic Development Open
This article presents a material ecosystemic approach as a theoretical grounding for understanding digital technologies as potential catalysts of socioeconomic development. Through such an approach, talk of “technology” is replaced by talk…
View article: How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms
How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms Open
This article considers the issue of opacity as a problem for socially consequential mechanisms of classification and ranking, such as spam filters, credit card fraud detection, search engines, news trends, market segmentation and advertisi…