Not My Type | Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

Apryl Williams

ISBN 10: 150363504X / ISBN 13: 9781503635043

Published by Stanford University Press, 2024

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Not My Type | Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating | Apryl Williams | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2024 | Stanford University Press | EAN 9781503635043 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Not My Type | Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150363504X
• ISBN 13: 9781503635043
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 157H x 22D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 516 grams
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Synopsis

In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and desirability.

About the Author

Apryl Williams is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Communication & Media and the Digital Studies Institute. She is also a Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her research has been published in Big Data & Society, Ethnicities, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Social Media & Society, among others.