Three readings this week, we have:
Ways of Machine Seeing by Geoff Cox
A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies by Safiya Umoja Noble
How we are teaching computers to understand pictures by Fei Fei Lee

“Drawing on the two readings consider your example in relation to “ways of machine seeing”.

Inspired by Lisa Nakamura’s Keynote speech at this year’s Transmediale Berlin “Call Out, Protest, Speak Back” I will be looking further into the writings of bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) and her influence on Intersectional thought. Nakamura presentation focuses on VR and how it is being sold by the big tech companies and how it uses black women as users of the media. She points out how this is a superficial and misleading image. This connects with the second of the readings; by Safiya Umoja Noble.