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

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.

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

*Price subject to change.

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