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[Commlist] New book: Not My Type - Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

Fri Mar 01 16:47:27 GMT 2024




We would like to announce a new publication from Stanford University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Not My Type*

Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

*Apryl Williams *

*Foreword by Safiya Noble*

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503635050/not-my-type/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503635050/not-my-type/>_*

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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.

*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.

*ONLINE TALK AND BOOK LAUNCH: 7 MARCH 2024 – 14:30 – 16:00 EST – ONLINE VIA ZOOM (HOSTED BY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN). BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE <https://events.umich.edu/event/115995> *



*Stanford University Press | February 2024 | 268pp | 9781503635050 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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