{"id":2255,"date":"2011-09-14T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:01","slug":"guilt-through-algorithmic-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/14\/guilt-through-algorithmic-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilt Through Algorithmic Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2011\/09\/12\/guilt-through-algorithmic-association.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zephoria%2Fthoughts+%28apophenia%29\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GuiltThruAlgoAssociation.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google queries likes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is Mohammad Abdullah a terrorist?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mohammad Abdullah al Qaeda.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search engine learns. All of a sudden, auto-complete starts suggesting terms like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Al Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the next term in relation to your name. You know that colleges are looking up your name and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid of the impression that they might get based on that auto-complete. You are already getting hostile comments in your hometown, a decidedly anti-Muslim environment. You know that you have nothing to do with Al Qaeda, but Google gives the impression that you do. And people are drawing that conclusion. You write to Google but nothing comes of it. What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>This is guilt through algorithmic association&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2011\/09\/12\/guilt-through-algorithmic-association.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zephoria%2Fthoughts+%28apophenia%29\">via danah boyd | apophenia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google queries likes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is Mohammad Abdullah a terrorist?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mohammad Abdullah al Qaeda.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search engine learns. All of a sudden, auto-complete starts suggesting terms like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Al Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/14\/guilt-through-algorithmic-association\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guilt Through Algorithmic Association<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[492,494,261,491,493,42],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","tag-algorithms","tag-danahboyd","tag-google","tag-guiltbyalgorithmicassociation","tag-searching","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10099,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}