Social justice issues are tech issues too…

A list of resources to learn about injustice in tech and what you can do about it

Dasani Madipalli
2 min readJun 12, 2020

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If you’re in tech and “don’t care” about the world around you — I’m worried about what you’ll create

You’re indifference has consequences.

Want to be a great developer/pm/designer or any other role in tech? Listen and learn about the world around you.

Social justice issues will always be tech issues.

The following are a list of resources that break this down

Books

Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy -Cathy O’Neil

Algorithms of Oppressions: How search engineers reinforce racism -Safiya U. Noble

Artificial Unintelligence: How computers misunderstand the world- Meredith Broussard

Race After Technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code -Ruha Benjamin

Technology Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other threats of toxic tech Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Automating Inequality: How high tech tools profile, police and punish the poor Virginia Eubanks

Talks/Videos

Some healthy principles about ethics and bias in AI

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Dasani Madipalli
Dasani Madipalli

Written by Dasani Madipalli

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