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Because Technology Discriminates [electronic resource] : Anti-Racist Counter-Expertise / by Logan D. A. Williams.

By: Williams, Logan D. A [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society: 27Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2023Edition: 1st ed. 2023.Description: XVII, 159 p. 20 illus., 13 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031278686.Subject(s): Engineering design | Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Science -- Moral and ethical aspects | Engineering Design | Ethics of Technology | Science EthicsAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 620.0042 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- Race, Gender and the Myth of Technological Incompetence -- Your diverse design team is very competent: how to lead relationally -- The race audit: mitigating environmental racism in civil infrastructure -- Data racism, machine learning and the importance of context in design -- Designing sustainable organizations to create ethical designs.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society. Designers have a mandate to make technologies efficiently, economically, and ethically. This textbook is written for both students and practicing designers, engineers, researchers, or artists who want to create more ethical designs; it aims to help readers understand how race is implicated in technology design. Learning from historical and contemporary case studies of engineering and architecture projects will help readers see clearly the power of design decisions to either perpetuate or contest racism. Chapter exercises will change engineers' mental models to see the bias inherent to existing technological design. By incorporating the knowledge and insights of community-based experts into design projects, readers will begin to practice anti-racist leadership and counter-expertise.
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Introduction -- Race, Gender and the Myth of Technological Incompetence -- Your diverse design team is very competent: how to lead relationally -- The race audit: mitigating environmental racism in civil infrastructure -- Data racism, machine learning and the importance of context in design -- Designing sustainable organizations to create ethical designs.

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society. Designers have a mandate to make technologies efficiently, economically, and ethically. This textbook is written for both students and practicing designers, engineers, researchers, or artists who want to create more ethical designs; it aims to help readers understand how race is implicated in technology design. Learning from historical and contemporary case studies of engineering and architecture projects will help readers see clearly the power of design decisions to either perpetuate or contest racism. Chapter exercises will change engineers' mental models to see the bias inherent to existing technological design. By incorporating the knowledge and insights of community-based experts into design projects, readers will begin to practice anti-racist leadership and counter-expertise.

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