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Read online: Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin
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2026-09-05
00 min
Midnight Cheesecake
047 - Planning Your Trip to Japan?
Planning Your Trip to Japan - A Recap with Ruha and BekahSome trips change your life, and some trips become core memories — this one did both. In today’s episode, Ruha takes us through her family’s two‑week adventure across Tokyo and Kyoto, complete with Nintendo magic, Studio Ghibli nostalgia, vending‑machine economics, and the cultural whiplash of remembering (too late) that Japanese trains are very quiet places.We kick things off with accents — British, Australian, and whatever Bekah was doing — before diving into Ruha’s second-ever trip to Japan. She compares her 2015 visit (as young...
2026-07-24
1h 18
Crisis in Perception
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — The Myth of Neutral Tech
What happens when technologies advertised as neutral tools inherit the racial patterns of the society that builds them?Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.Using Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin as the lens, this episode investigates how automated systems can reproduce racial hierarchy while appearing objective, efficient, progressive, or benevolent.Benjamin’s work challenges the idea that technology simply removes human bias from decision-making. Instead, algorithms, databases, predictive systems, fa...
2026-07-14
52 min
Bookish: A Casual Book Club Archive
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin
We often treat imagination like a luxury, but Ruha Benjamin argues it’s a battlefield. In this episode, Sylvia, Kofi, and Laura glimpse into Imagination: A Manifesto to discuss how we can deprogram ourselves from "dominant imaginaries" and start worldbuilding for the collective good. From dismantling oppressive systems to the "quiet acts of rebellion," they explore Benjamin's ideas of how to dream a better world into reality. Footnote from Kofi: During the discussion on Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto, Kofi Adisa misstated the names of Vauhini Vara and Nik Usher, the latter being referred to as 'N...
2026-02-16
31 min
Vibe avec ton Enfant Intérieur
#66 | Grandir comme un.e enfant
On applaudit un bébé qui tombe 200 fois. On l’encourage. On filme. On célèbre.Mais un adulte qui échoue une fois… se juge. abandonne. se traite d’incapable.Et si les enfants savaient quelque chose que nous avons oublié ?Dans cet épisode, je parle du pouvoir invisible des Baby Steps. L’itération. L’effet cumulé. La sécurité intérieure.Comme le montre Carol Dweck dans Mindsethttps://www.amazon.fr/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck/dp/0345472322Comme l’explique James Clear dans Atomic Habitshttps://www.amazon.fr/Atomic-Habits...
2026-02-15
27 min
AI Innovations Unleashed
AI and the Future of Identity - Episode 3: Can AI Save Dying Languages or Erase Cultural Identity Forever? The Truth About Digital Preservation
Episode 3: Culture vs. Code – Can AI Save Languages or Erase Identity?Every two weeks, a human language disappears forever. With 40% of the world's 7,000 languages endangered, we're facing a linguistic extinction crisis—and AI might be both the problem and the solution.In this episode, Dr. JR talks with fictional expert Dr. Samantha Chen about the intersection of artificial intelligence and cultural preservation. We explore how tech giants like Google and Microsoft are racing to document endangered languages, why indigenous communities are demanding data sovereignty, and whether digital preservation actually saves culture or just creates sophisticated muse...
2025-12-20
41 min
De Dépendance Podcast
Ruha Benjamin on Imagination
In this episode, acclaimed sociologist and Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin joins De Dépendance Podcast for a compelling conversation on the occasion of her new book, Imagination: A Manifesto. Interviewed by historian Marianne Klerk, Benjamin explores how emerging technologies—especially algorithms and AI—shape inequality, and why we must treat imagination as a powerful site of struggle and possibility. If we hope to dismantle systems shaped by white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism, she argues, we must first learn to imagine the world anew.Benjamin lays out a poetic yet pragmatic vision for worldbuilding—one that invites listeners t...
2025-12-12
1h 11
The Greater You Movement
Ruha Benjamin: The New Jim Code and Algorithmic Justice
The show provides a detailed overview of the life and work of Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor and influential scholar focused on the intersection of race, justice, and technology. The hosts primarily unpack the concept of the “New Jim Code,” which describes how seemingly objective technological systems, such as facial recognition, predictive policing, and biased hiring algorithms, reproduce and amplify existing social inequalities and racial discrimination. Beyond critique, the sources highlight Benjamin’s commitment to abolitionist futures and actionable change, citing her founding of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab and her teaching philosophy, which encourages students to desi...
2025-11-25
16 min
IA para Humanos
T1E53 Race After Technology – Ruha Benjamin
En el episodio de hoy, hablaremos de: El libro Race After Technology de Ruha Benjamin, que desmonta la ilusión de la neutralidad tecnológica. La obra explica cómo la IA y los algoritmos reflejan y amplifican las desigualdades raciales y sociales existentes, introduciendo el concepto de “racismo codificado”. Se utilizan casos como el sesgo en el reconocimiento facial y en sistemas judiciales. Benjamin hace un llamado a la acción para diseñar innovaciones con una visión ética y equitativa.Usando la IA para hacerte más humano.
2025-10-25
07 min
Book Buzz with Sno-Isle Libraries
Ep. 103 "A Deadly Education" by Naomi Novik; "Viral Justice" by Ruha Benjamin
Book buzz 103 "A Deadly Education" by Naomi Novik; "Viral Justice" by Ruha Benjamin Original Broadcast Date: 5/23/25
2025-07-29
04 min
Smart Funny & Black Productions
Side Effects of Imagination as Resistance (with Ruha Benjamin)
This week, we talk to sociologist Ruha Benjamin about finding imagination in unexpected places, and harnessing its power to disrupt the status quo.For more content, subscribe to our Youtube and Patreon!Keep up with my releases and appearances!Subscribe to my newsletter for free at AmandaSeales.comSupport the work here://Join the #sealessquad at Patreon.com/AmandaSeales//Stop by my lickle shop! AmandaLandExports.comatforms.This is a Smart Funny & Black Production
2025-07-16
48 min
Eyes On Whiteness
Part 1 of Whiteness is Shape-Shifting, When Fascism Rebrands — Elon Musk and the Aesthetics of Whiteness
Mini-series Whiteness is Shape-ShiftingPt. 1: When Fascism Rebrands — Elon Musk and the Aesthetics of Whiteness In this episode, Maureen dives into the shape-shifting nature of whiteness—how it survives by mutating into rebellion, reason, and innovation. She takes us into the political spectacle surrounding Elon Musk’s “America Party,” his tech-fueled propaganda, and the cultural silence that followed his Nazi salute on a presidential stage.Drawing on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and Ruha Benjamin, Maureen traces how whiteness adapts-selling domination through calm logic, clean design, and “free speech.”...
2025-07-14
19 min
Soul Salon with Ayandastood
78: 👁️ the power of y(our) vision
Hello, soul sibling! 😍🥰 In today's Soul Session, we delve into the profound power of vision and its role in manifesting possibilities and bridging the spiritual and material realms. Explore how visions attract the wisdom, support, and people necessary to bring them to life, and reflect on the ways YOU are a vision for others. We explore how imagination challenges existing systems, leaning on the wonderful book, Imagination: A Manifesto by Dr. Ruha Benjamin. Tap into this Soul Session to reconnect with your divine vision — and with yourself as one.00:00 The Power of Vision00:22...
2025-06-18
18 min
Black Women Be Knowing
This Indefinite Transactional Society
Send us a textIn this episode, we unpack the dual realities of community and capitalism in the United States. On one hand, we explore the undeniable power of collective action—how safety, support, and real change are most often found when we show up for one another in community. But what happens when allyship becomes more about optics than solidarity?We take a critical look at how relationships in the U.S. are often shaped by a transactional mindset—fueled by a capitalist framework that values productivity over people. From performative allyship to fleeting supp...
2025-04-19
47 min
Black Women Be Knowing
It's the Performance For Me
Send us a textIn this episode, we unpack how we navigate everything from being hired into spaces that claim to value diversity but lack the necessary infrastructure to support Black teachers, to experiencing racial gaslighting that undermines our professional and personal experiences. We dive deep into how we confront and cope with the toxic behaviors and microaggressions that often go unchecked in these spaces. How do we maintain our sense of self and continue to show up for our students, while also protecting our well-being in environments that were not built with us in mind?
2025-03-22
36 min
Book Buzz with Sno-Isle Libraries
Ep. 17 "All Systems Red" by Martha Wells; "Viral Justice" by Ruha Benjamin
"All Systems Red" by Martha Wells "Viral Justice, How We Grow the World We Want" by Ruha Benjamin
2025-02-23
04 min
What Now? with Trevor Noah
RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin
Trevor and Christiana speak with professor, sociologist, and MacArthur Fellowship winner Ruha Benjamin about some of the pressing political and social issues of the day. The three discuss whether DEI initiatives are in fact valuable and how the world will look without them, why universities honor people whose voices they’ve previously tried to silence, and how best to navigate a world that was not built for us. Can the three collectively imagine a better world order? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal da...
2025-02-13
1h 20
Life Examined
The Black Utopians; vision, history, and legacy
Ruha Benjamin, sociologist and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University discusses the concept of "us topia" as an alternative between dystopia and utopia, which accomodates shaping the future through collective agency. Benjamin says technology also can play a role in representing the public good and shares the example of Barcelona’s Decidim app which promotes democratic participation in city governance. Aaron Robertson, author and writer talks about the utopian ideal and how it influenced a group of Black thinkers, artists and political leaders in the 1960’s.Guests:Ruha BenjaminP...
2025-02-09
51 min
The Tech Policy Press Podcast
Imagining 2025 and Beyond with Dr. Ruha Benjamin
This week’s guest is Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and Founding Director of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab. Benjamin was recently named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, and she’s written and edited multiple books, including 2019’s Race After Technology and 2022’s Viral Justice. Last week she joined Justin Hendrix to discuss her latest book, Imagination: A Manifesto, published this year by WW Norton & Company.
2024-12-22
40 min
Machines Like Us
How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination
The past few months have seen a series of bold proclamations from the most powerful people in tech.In September, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta had developed “the most advanced glasses the world had ever seen.” That same day, Open AI CEO Sam Altman predicted we could have artificial super intelligence within a couple of years. Elon Musk has said he’ll land rockets on Mars by 2026.We appear to be living through the kinds of technological leaps we used to only dream about. But whose dreams were those, exactly?In her latest book...
2024-12-03
45 min
Legacy: Navigating Family Business
Episode 20: Ancestral Healing and Family Business
Join me as I dive into another powerful piece of the work that we do here at Legacy. In this episode I answer questions like:What is ancestral healing?How does ancestral healing impact family businesses?What’s possible in family businesses through ancestral healing?And share a few examples from my experience leading my own family’s 6th generation family business. www.thelegacyevolution.com Additional show notes: Seriously Entertaining: Ruha Benjamin on "In Being Bold"...
2024-11-06
32 min
Science Magazine Podcast
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
Using robots to study evolution, the last installment of our series of books on a future to look forward to, and did reintroducing wolves really restore an ecosystem?First up this week, a new study of an iconic ecosystem doesn’t support the “landscape of fear” concept. This is the idea that bringing back apex predators has a huge impact on the behavior of their prey, eventually altering the rest of the ecosystem. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Virginia Morell about the findings. Next, using bioinspired robotics to explore deep time. Michael...
2024-10-24
45 min
Daybreak
Ruha Benjamin awarded ‘genius’ grant ft. Annie Rupertus — Wednesday, Oct. 2
Today, we cover The MacArthur genius grant awarded to Professor Ruha Benjamin, the vice presidential debate and a nationwide dockworkers’ strike.https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/section/news
2024-10-02
05 min
Soul Salon with Ayandastood
47: Palestine & the words I’m reaching for — Part 1
hello soul siblings 🥰, I have MISSED YOU! 🫶🏾 as we bear witness to genocide and support and uplift the student and other protests in response, today I want to share and amplify the work of the WONDER-MAGIC-FUL Dr Ayesha Khan who writes the beautiful, informative, revolutionary Cosmic Anarchy Substack, which I am entirely obsessed with. I am sharing their work imperfectly, reaching for these words, and reaching for you. I send you my love, today and always. Thank you for being here. 🥺💛 ESSAYS mentioned: Subscribe to Cosmic Anarchy Substack Learn more about Dr Ayesha K...
2024-06-12
43 min
Soul Salon with Ayandastood
47: Palestine & the words I’m reaching for — Part 1
hello soul siblings 🥰, I have MISSED YOU! 🫶🏾 as we bear witness to genocide and support and uplift the student and other protests in response, today I want to share and amplify the work of the WONDER-MAGIC-FUL Dr Ayesha Khan who writes the beautiful, informative, revolutionary Cosmic Anarchy Substack, which I am entirely obsessed with. I am sharing their work imperfectly, reaching for these words, and reaching for you. I send you my love, today and always. Thank you for being here. 🥺💛 ESSAYS mentioned: Subscribe to Cosmic Anarchy Substack Learn more about Dr Ayesha K...
2024-06-12
43 min
Library Talks
Ruha Benjamin with Rujeko Hockley: Imagination
Social and technology critic Ruha Benjamin examines the power of our imagination to challenge systems of oppression and to create a world in which everyone can thrive.
2024-05-14
58 min
I Can't Fux With You! Confessions of An Uppity Black Woman
Episode 67: So Fuxing Dangerous
We fuxing with rage and pleasure today. This rage card keeps showing up and this rage indeed is warranted. The way the world comes at the #ubw, it is a wonder we have not all ended up in the clink. Instead we have trained ourselves to suppress these feelings and move forward with plastic smiles. We need no physician to tell us that suppression of feeling will not end well. The reinforcement of the suppression of true feeling bleeds into all aspects of our lives. Thus the version the world receives of us is one that is a lie...
2024-04-19
53 min
The Inclusion Solution LIVE
Seeking Justice for All With Dr. Ruha Benjamin
In this kickoff episode for the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Mary-Frances Winters, founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of the new book Imagination: A Manifesto. Listen in as they discuss the hard questions that we all need to ask in order to achieve justice in our technology-driven world, from who’s benefitting from so-called advances to who is being left behind and wh...
2024-03-26
39 min
The Inclusion Solution LIVE
Seeking Justice for All With Dr. Ruha Benjamin
In this kickoff episode for the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Mary-Frances Winters, founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of the new book Imagination: A Manifesto. Listen in as they discuss the hard questions that we all need to ask in order to achieve justice in our technology-driven world, from who’s benefitting from so-called advances to who is being left behind and wh...
2024-03-26
39 min
The Inclusion Solution LIVE
Seeking Justice for All With Dr. Ruha Benjamin
In this kickoff episode for the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Mary-Frances Winters, founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of the new book Imagination: A Manifesto. Listen in as they discuss the hard questions that we all need to ask in order to achieve justice in our technology-driven world, from who’s benefitting from so-called advances to who is being left behind and wh...
2024-03-26
39 min
The Stacks
Ep. 308 Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin -- The Stacks Book Club (Uché Blackstock)
Physician and bestselling author Uché Blackstock returns to discuss the memoir-manifesto Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin. We talk about viral justice and viral injustice, and how American individualism is one of the biggest challenges to the work of abolition. We also unpack why we struggle with owning the power we have, and how viral justice can show up in our communities, from education to labor and beyond.Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our March book club pick will be.Y...
2024-02-28
59 min
Free Library Podcast
Ruha Benjamin | Imagination: A Manifesto
In conversation with Shantrelle Lewis Ruha Benjamin is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, a ''galvanizing'' and ''inventive and wide-ranging'' (The Nation) look at how new technologies reinforce social inequities; and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, a pragmatic yet poetic vision of the ways in which our minor everyday choices can add up to larger societal growth. Also the author of many scholarly publications, she is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Benja...
2024-02-09
55 min
Think Outside The BlueBox
The A.I. Data Frontier: The E. Veal Episode
In this episode, host Anthony Rivera engages with data activist E. Veal in a thought-provoking discussion on the impact of data in our lives, the intricacies of artificial intelligence, and the importance of data diversity and AI ethics. Veal, with her rich background in AI, sheds light on the dual nature of data as both a tool for progress and a potential source of bias, emphasizing the need for ethical considerations in AI development and the critical role of diversity in shaping a more inclusive technological future. Think Outside The BlueBox Podcast SEASON # 2 EP #11 Guest: E. Veal www.eveal...
2024-02-08
59 min
Poured Over
Ruha Benjamin on IMAGINATION: A MANIFESTO
"My writing is always trying to open that up and to say — you can start here; you can start now." Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin reminds us that our imaginations already know what a better world looks like. From education to challenging our systems of oppression and more, this insightful work shows a new place for us all to start from. Benjamin joins us to talk about the split between imagination and technology, changing our narratives to tell new stories, the importance of community and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This epis...
2024-01-30
47 min
TED Tech
Is technology our savior — or our slayer? | Ruha Benjamin
When it comes to technology, we're often presented with two contrasting visions of the future: one where technology fulfills all our desires, and another where it leads to chaos and conflict. Sociologist Ruha Benjamin is here with a more radical vision of the future — one where humanity isn't saved or slayed by technology, but rather uses it to uplift ordinary people and make things like health care and housing for all a reality. After the talk, Sherrell expands on how tech improves individual lives, and communities at large. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
2023-12-22
16 min
Race/Remix
Episode 1 When Justice Goes Viral: Ruha Benjamin
How can we “act selfishly for our own humanity”? How might we recalibrate institutions so they reflect how our individual futures are intertwined? Explore these questions and more in a timely discussion with sociologist Ruha Benjamin. She takes on racism in education, healthcare, the arts and beyond in this riveting conversation. Currently, Dr. Benjamin is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her book, Viral Justice, offers an inspiring vision of change.
2023-12-02
34 min
Mundaréu
# 24 – O parto como travessia
Rosiane Oliveira é doula, Débora Allebrandt é antropóloga. As duas têm refletido sobre os direitos reprodutivos das mulheres no estado de Alagoas. Em especial, elas têm lutado para que toda mulher possa desenhar a sua gestação, o seu parto e puerpério. Apostam num modelo de cuidados que considere também as nossas vulnerabilidades, que é inspirado pelo trabalho da socióloga Ruha Benjamin. Mas também percebem que, no cotidiano hospitalar, doulas e antropólogas são vistas como profissionais “café com leite”. Embates com outros cientistas são comuns, discordâncias sobre a autonomia das mulheres...
2023-11-07
41 min
Disrupted
60 years after the March on Washington, the fight for equity continues
This hour, we’re exploring the history of civil rights for Black Americans and how people can create change now. Professor Adriane Lentz-Smith gives us some context around the 60th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which happened on the same day as the shooting in Jacksonville. And Professor Ruha Benjamin, who is being recognized with this year's Stowe Prize, talks about her book Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. She discusses the small things around us that produce both problems and solutions, and she explains why racism hurts even those it...
2023-09-20
49 min
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it? ChatGPT was only the starter pistol but it has shown the sloppiness of these companies and the need for regulate artificial intelligence for the public good.
Air Date 8/20/2023 Big tech is currently scrambling to bring untested A.I. products to market, over-promising, under-delivering, and working hard obscure and ignore any possible downsides for society. Big tech needs A.I. regulation now before we all suffer the easily foreseeable consequences as well as some unforeseeable ones. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Clips and Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES
2023-08-20
1h 04
How To Citizen with Baratunde
Justice Begins with Imagination (Ruha Benjamin)
According to Ruha Benjamin, we’re living inside someone else’s imagination. An imagination that limits our ability to build a more just, liberated world. So, how do we take back our agency and begin to seed something different? Baratunde talks with Princeton professor and founding director of the Just Data Lab, Ruha Benjamin to find out. SHOW ACTIONS Internally Reflect - Bear witness and create a ripple This one is inspired from Ruha’s book Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want which says: “…bear witness to the weight of in...
2023-03-23
52 min
The Machinist
Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?
Podcast: The Chauncey DeVega Show (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?Pub date: 2023-01-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere are two guests on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Ruh...
2023-02-08
2h 20
The Chauncey DeVega Show
Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?
There are two guests on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. ***Your generosity and support help to sustain the podcast and to keep it free, not behind a paywall and available to all listeners.*** Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of several books including Race After Technology and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. She explains how technology is not socially or politically neutral and actually does the work of...
2023-01-31
2h 20
Factually! with Adam Conover
Viral Justice with Ruha Benjamin
When the problems facing us are so massive and systemic, how can we ever hope to address them as individuals? This week’s guest, Ruha Benjamin, joins Adam to explain how small actions for justice can become contagious and create change on a larger scale. Pick up a copy of Ruha’s book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2023-01-04
1h 09
Soul Salon with Ayandastood
7: viral justice Ft. Ruha Benjamin
I am so thrilled and honored to be in conversation with Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab and author of three books, Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of Captivating Technology (2019). Today, we discuss her incredible latest book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. I am completely obsessed with this book. I feel it is an urgent read for all of us who want to integrate the structural and the individual, the academic and the po...
2022-12-15
55 min
Soul Salon with Ayandastood
7: viral justice Ft. Ruha Benjamin
I am so thrilled and honored to be in conversation with Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab and author of three books, Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of Captivating Technology (2019). Today, we discuss her incredible latest book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. I am completely obsessed with this book. I feel it is an urgent read for all of us who want to integrate the structural and the individual, the academic and the po...
2022-12-15
55 min
RSA Events
Viral justice – the big impact of small change
Small change can have a big impact on our lives. Through knock-on effects and cumulative action, little shifts have the potential for great harm and great good. And when it is easy to feel overwhelmed at the scale of change needed to solve big, structural problems, we need to recognise the value of practical change we can enact on a daily basis.In recent times, the twin plagues of Covid-19 and anti-Black police violence have caused Ruha Benjamin to rethink the importance of these every day, individual actions across our lives and societies - from the impact...
2022-11-03
1h 01
Town Hall Seattle Science Series
301. Ruha Benjamin with Jazmyn Scott and Vivian Phillips: How We Grow the World We Want
Can the choices you make on a daily basis transform society? Sociologist and Princeton professor Dr. Ruha Benjamin thinks so, and has the research to support the idea. Dr. Benjamin’s groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice spanned years and focused primarily on larger, structural changes. But the scourges of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired Dr. Benjamin to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Her new book Viral Justice offers a sweeping, deeply personal exploration of how we can shape our world through the choices we make on a daily basis. Part mem...
2022-11-02
1h 09
Skylight Books Podcast Series
SKYLIT: Ruha Benjamin, ”VIRAL JUSTICE” w/ Lance Morgan
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day. Join us for a conversation between Benjamin and Lance Morgan. _______________________________________________ Produced by Nat Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
2022-10-17
52 min
Slate Books
A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
From Ferguson to Minneapolis, protests against racist policing have been catalyzed by videos of the brutality being spread on social media. On today’s A Word, Jason Johnson sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin to talk about her book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, and where social sciences and technology intersect. Guest: Ruha BenjaminYou can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn mor...
2022-10-14
30 min
Slate Race and Identity
A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
From Ferguson to Minneapolis, protests against racist policing have been catalyzed by videos of the brutality being spread on social media. On today’s A Word, Jason Johnson sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin to talk about her book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, and where social sciences and technology intersect. Guest: Ruha BenjaminYou can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn mor...
2022-10-14
30 min
Slate Technology
A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
From Ferguson to Minneapolis, protests against racist policing have been catalyzed by videos of the brutality being spread on social media. On today’s A Word, Jason Johnson sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin to talk about her book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, and where social sciences and technology intersect. Guest: Ruha BenjaminYou can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn mor...
2022-10-14
30 min
A Word … with Jason Johnson
How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
From Ferguson to Minneapolis, protests against racist policing have been catalyzed by videos of the brutality being spread on social media. On today’s A Word, Jason Johnson sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin to talk about her book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, and where social sciences and technology intersect. Guest: Ruha BenjaminYou can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
2022-10-14
27 min
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (Authored by Ruha Benjamin)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Author: Ruha Benjamin Narrator: Ruha Benjamin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time 'A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.'—Jelani Co...
2022-10-11
1h 25
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Viral Justice Audiobook by Ruha Benjamin
Listen to full audiobook for free :https://audiobookzap.com/freeTitle: Viral JusticeSubtitle: How We Grow the World We WantCategories: Economic Inequality, Freedom, Liberty, Politics, SociologyAuthor: Ruha BenjaminNarrator: Ruha BenjaminPublisher: Princeton University PressRelease date: 10-11-2022Language: EnglishSummary:This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time “A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.”—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School...
2022-10-11
00 min
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Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/41139to listen full audiobooks. Title: Viral Justice Author: Ruha Benjamin Narrator: Ruha Benjamin Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins Release date: 10-11-22 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 62 ratings Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices...
2022-10-11
1h 24
Metaphysical Milkshake with Rainn & Reza
Ruha Benjamin: How Do You Build A Movement?
Rainn and Reza sit down with Sociologist and Professor, Ruha Benjamin, to ponder, "How Do You Build A Movement?" https://www.instagram.com/rainnwilson/ https://www.instagram.com/rezaaslan/?hl=en Special Thanks To Our Sponsors: Betterhelp When you want to be a better problem solver, therapy can get you there. Visit http://www.BetterHelp.com/MILKSHAKE today to get 10% off your first month.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-04
59 min
Changing the Business of Learning
Stella Lee on the role of ethics in EdTech
Stella Lee’s first love was actually painting – something she still enjoys to this day. But it was only after getting a PhD in Computer Science that her interest in learning technologies began. From there, she spent a few years working corporate learning before taking the leap to found her own consulting company, Paradox Learning. Today, with 20 years of experience under her belt, she works on enterprise-wide learning strategy and governance, digital ethics for learning, AI and e-learning applications, LMS design, evaluation and learning analytics. In our most recent episode of Untold Stories in Learning & Development, Stella talk...
2022-05-24
39 min
Zora's Daughters
S2, E13 No Body is Normal
Sometimes it's love and light, sometimes it's love and light that ass up! In this episode, we're joined by founder, inventor, and curator Adero Knott to discuss accessibility, disability, technology, and the ableist joke Chris Rock made that got him slapped at the Oscars. What's the Word? Accessibility. We define the term, explain how we prioritize accessibility, discuss its connection to disability justice, and talk about norms and how they harm all of us. What We're Reading. "Engineered Inequity" in Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin. Technology is o...
2022-03-30
1h 27
University of Minnesota Press
How institutionalized racism shapes health in the 21st century: Anne Pollock with Ruha Benjamin
SICKENING is a book that examines the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Author Anne Pollock of King’s College London takes readers through anti-Black racism operating in healthcare: from the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams. Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University joins Pollock in conversation. Pollock is professor of global health and social medicine at King’s College London. She is author of ‘Sickening: Anti-Blac...
2021-11-11
40 min
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2021-09-14
6h 38
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2021-09-14
6h 38
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Author: Ruha Benjamin Narrator: Mia Ellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist...
2021-09-14
6h 38
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2021-09-14
6h 38
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2021-09-14
30 min
Over The Wire Podcast
35. The Story Of Us (Part 2)
Podcast: Intersectionality Matters! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 35. The Story Of Us (Part 2)Pub date: 2021-04-16Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:What is Hollywood’s role in writing and rewriting history? How are these scripted stories reproduced and popularised? How can we begin writing new stories that tell our full story?Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWith Bryan Stevenson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ruha Benjamin, and David Blight In the second half of a two-part episode on the stories that...
2021-04-30
45 min
Intersectionality Matters!
35. The Story Of Us (Part 2)
With Bryan Stevenson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ruha Benjamin, and David Blight In the second half of a two-part episode on the stories that shape our understanding of America, Kimberlé Crenshaw and special guests explore the ways that film and other technologies have reproduced and popularized these dominant stories. The episode examines Hollywood’s role in writing and rewriting history, and asks how we can begin writing new stories that tell the full story of us. With: RUHA BENJAMIN- Professor of American Studies, Princeton University; Author, Race After Technology DAVID BLIGHT - Professor of American History, Yale University; Author, Frederick Douglass: Proph...
2021-04-16
45 min
consideranew (+ Season 2 cohost, Dr. Jane Shore of School of Thought)
Season 1: Episode 39 - Cathy O'Neil: When decisions are made about us, without us
"Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy" by Cathy O'Neil (2017) (http://bit.do/fP7HT)"... the world is dominated by automatic systems chomping away on our error-ridden dossiers. They urgently require the context, common sense, and fairness that only humans can provide. However, if we leave this issue to the marketplace, which prizes efficiency, growth, and cash flow (while tolerating a certain degree of errors), meddling humans will be instructed to stand clear of the machinery" (p. 155).References:Cathy O'Neil (https://twitter.com/mathbabedotorg)
2021-03-29
06 min
Haymarket Books Live
Policing Without the Police- Race, Technology and the New Jim Code (7-8-20)
Join us for a virtual teach in on police, surveillance, and technology with Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts ---------------------------------------------------- With calls for “defunding police” on the rise, invisible, tech-mediated surveillance continues to penetrate every area of our lives – workplaces, schools, hospitals, and of course policing itself. How does this relate to a longer history of surveilling Black life and how are people mobilizing against this New Jim Code? From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this c...
2021-03-04
1h 28
The Reel Ethics
Ethics and The Search
In this episode The Reel Ethics discusses the ethical dilemma that surrounds search engines; unethical and discriminatory practices of tech companies in what author Safiya Umoja Noble calls the “Algorithms of Oppression”. So, listen as we look at how ratings and reviews determine one’s worth and access to the finer things in life based off of data and perception, controlled by bias algorithms and the people that design and develop them. As we talk with San Diego based photographer, activist and educator Alejandro Martinez founder of Tira Together arts project in Tijuana. In this Episode “Ethics and The Search”...
2021-02-11
24 min
The Data & AI Chief
Princeton University's Ruja Benjamin on Bias in Data and A.I.
Joining Cindi today is Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the founding director of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab. She has studied the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine for over 15 years and speaks widely on issues of innovation, equity, health, and justice in the U.S. and globally. Ruha is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code and People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier, and the editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life.
2021-02-03
39 min
A Culture Made of Algorithms
THE GODDARD LINKUP: @EedsMckenzie on TikTok, Surveillance, Racism in Tech and Ruha Benjamin.
Going through the archive this week, I've come good on a promise to share with you a previously unreleased, juicy portion of content by Eeds Mckenzie, Co-Host of Don't Alert the Stans Podcast and Host of AndWithTech, UX/UI Designer and overall tech fanatic. We talk about Tiktok, social media and surveillance, Ruha Benjamin's Race After Technology and I pretend to be a Dolphin with echolocation. Find his podcasts here: AndWithTech and Don't Alert the Stans and his Twitter: @EedsMckenzie Find ME and the podcast on socials: Twitter: @ACMOAPOD...
2020-12-11
21 min
Disruptors
Can an Algorithm Be Racist? The Growing Push for Ethical AI
From facial recognition software that fails to recognize women and people of colour, to Twitter algorithms which seem to prefer white faces in photo previews, there’s been no shortage of negative headlines about artificial intelligence over the past few months. But whether we like it or not, AI is at work all around us, all the time, and there’s a growing movement to make sure it’s being used in an ethical way.A new survey from RBC’s world-class artificial intelligence research center, Borealis AI, reveals that most businesses in Canada believe it’s important...
2020-10-20
28 min
Cite Black Women Podcast
S2E9: Race, Technology and Abolition - A Conversation with Ruha Benjamin
Race is coded into every aspect of our technological lives, from automatic soap dispensers to Zoom calls. In this episode, host Christen Smith sits down with Prof. Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University to her work on racial coding, how racism and technology work hand in hand, and what we can do to create abolitionist futures despite this racism. Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), and founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, which brings together students...
2020-09-08
40 min
Factually! with Adam Conover
Technology and Race with Ruha Benjamin
Princeton University professor Ruha Benjamin joins Adam to reveal the issues at play at the intersection of technology and race, her concept of the “New Jim Code", digital redlining and and how the technology can’t be relied on to solve what are ultimately social problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2020-09-02
1h 02
REWORK
Rerun - Breaking the Black Box
Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a national controversy this week when he posted a series of livid tweets about how his wife received a much lower credit limit than he did on their Apple Cards, despite applying with the same financial information. What began as a rant against opaque algorithms turned into a regulatory investigation and more. In this episode, Dr. Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University and entrepreneur Mara Zepeda, co-founder of the XXcelerate Fund and Zebras Unite, talk about how the tech and financial sectors perpetuate systemic inequalities and how to start repairing the damage—or building something mo...
2020-08-25
56 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
RU88: DAMIEN PATRICK WILLIAMS - TECHNOLOGY & ANTI-BLACK SURVEILLANCE
Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology and Society. His research areas include ethics, epistemology, philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind, nonhuman intelligence, machine consciousness, comparative religious traditions, human biotechnological interventions and the occult. You can follow his work at: https://twitter.com/Wolven http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com https://www.patreon.com/Wolven https://twitter.com/techn0ccult http://www.technoccult.net http://tinyletter.com/technoccult Mr. Williams contributed to Rendering Unconscious the book. "Better than This" in Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 Mr. Williams...
2020-06-29
1h 06
City Arts & Lectures
Ethics in Technology, with Ruha Benjamin and Meredith Whittaker
Ruha Benjamin studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. In books like “Race After Technology”, and “People’s Science”, Benjamin examines how racial inequality plays out in every corner of civic, scientific, and social life. Meredith Whittaker co-founded the AI Now Institute, a research center examining the social implications of artificial intelligence in criminal justice, law enforcement, housing, and education. On June 1, 2020, Ruha Benjamin and Meredith Whittaker spoke via video conference. The two talked about biases built into every day technologies, how COVID-19 disproportionately harms marginalized communities, and ethical concerns over the increased power tech elites n...
2020-06-14
1h 01
Decolonization in Action Podcast
S2E8 I don't center domination
In this episode, edna bonhomme interviews Hiba Ali and they discuss COVID-19, multimedia performance art, surveillance, global shipping, Amazon, and modes of healing. Hiba Ali is a digital artist, educator, scholar, DJ, experimental music producer and curator based across Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, and Toronto, ON. Her performances and videos concern surveillance, womxn of colour, and labour. She conducts reading groups addressing digital media and workshops with open-source technology. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queens University, Kingston, Canada. She has presented her work in Chicago, Stockholm, Toronto, New York, Istanbul, São Paulo, Detroit, Dubai, Austin, V...
2020-06-05
36 min
The Radical AI Podcast
Love, Challenge, and Hope: Building a Movement to Dismantle the New Jim Code with Ruha Benjamin
How is racism embedded in technological systems? How do we address the root causes of discrimination? How do we as designers and consumers of AI technology reclaim our agency and create a world of equity for all? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Ruha Benjamin to the show. Dr. Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founder of the Just Data Lab. She is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Co...
2020-05-06
59 min
Season of the Bitch
Episode 128: History Of Pandemics
U THOUGHT WE WOULD GO THROUGH THIS HELLSCAPE WITHOUT SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT? think again! This week we r talkin' to the SMARTEST pandemic academic we know! Elise Mitchell! She is joining us to chat all about past pandemics AND this one. Please check out her piece in The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share) and her piece in Black Perspectives(https://www.aaihs.org/if-bitterness-were-a-whetstone-on-grief-history-and-covid-19/). You can also check out this discussion with some leading historians of race, medicine, and public health: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dr. Samuel Kelton...
2020-05-01
48 min
Seeing Red: Nebraska Politics From the Left
Medical Data For Profit
April and Melody have dusted off their mics to come back and talk about Nebraska politics. In this episode Amanda Gailey comes to talk about the new for-profit company that has set up shop in Utah, Iowa, and now Nebraska to collect the medical data of everyone in the state. Check out our book shoutouts - Shoshana Zuboff “The Age of SurveillanceCapitalism” Ruha Benjamin “Race After Technology” Collected Poems W.H. Auden The Poems of Emily Dickinson
2020-04-30
48 min
Visions of Education
Episode 141: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code with Ruha Benjamin
In Episode 141, Dan, Michael, and Dan’s doctoral students chat with Dr. Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University about her scholarship and new book, “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.”
2020-04-06
1h 03
Abolition Science Radio
Abolition Science Reading Group
We're excited for the very first Abolition Science Reading Group starting April 23rd. We'll be reading Race after Technology by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. RSVP on our website!
2020-04-03
11 min
Popular Education Radio
Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
HELLO! It's great to be back! In this episode I interview Professor Ruha Benjamin on her book Race After Technology. Tune in to hear about the intersection of race, inequality and technology-- some scary stuff but Ruha Benjamin breaks it down in a way that will leave you feeling empowered!!If you've ever wondered: "Are Robots Racist?" I've got the answer for you! -- Also, if you wish to borrow my copy of the book let me know! Thank you all for the patience and love, wash your hands! For comments, questions or concerned (within reason...
2020-03-25
1h 10
UO Today
Ruha Benjamin: "Beyond Buzzwords: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society"
Ruha Benjamin presents the concept of the “New Jim Code” to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Benjamin considers how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. Benjamin challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves.
2020-02-26
1h 11
UO Today
UO Today With Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. She discusses how new technologies encode old forms of segregation and gives some examples of bias in technology. Benjamin explains why humanists and social scientists should be integral participants in the tech industry. Benjamin gave a talk titled "Beyond Buzzwords: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society" on February 4, 2020 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2019-20 Cressman Lecturer. Her talk was part of the "Convergence: intersections between the sciences and humanities" series.
2020-02-06
28 min
#causeascene
Ruha Benjamin
“When I think about the role of technical systems…the inequity becomes even more encoded, subtle and it may seem like it’s operating where race is not explicit…The designers are not taking explicit note of race and yet racial disparities are being reproduced.” Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of […]
2020-01-08
58 min
Data & Society
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin discusses the relationship between machine bias and systemic racism, analyzing specific cases of “discriminatory design” and offering tools for a socially-conscious approach to tech development. In "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code," Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype, from everyday apps to complex algorithms, to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Presenting the concept of “the new Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but...
2019-11-26
35 min
REWORK
BONUS - Breaking the Black Box
Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a national controversy this week when he posted a series of livid tweets about how his wife received a much lower credit limit than he did on their Apple Cards, despite applying with the same financial information. What began as a rant against opaque algorithms turned into a regulatory investigation and more. In this episode, Dr. Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University and entrepreneur Mara Zepeda, co-founder of the XXcelerate Fund and Zebras Unite, talk about how the tech and financial sectors perpetuate systemic inequalities and how to start repairing the damage—or building so...
2019-11-15
57 min
Function with Anil Dash
American as Apple Pie: How Racism Gets Baked into Technology
Anil speaks with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Race After Technology, about design discrimination. They discuss how systemic racism is replicated in the technology we use and how tools like artificial intelligence, machine learning and software used in the criminal justice system are shaped by racial bias. Then he speaks with James Cadogan, VP of Criminal Justice, and Kristin Bechtel, Director of Criminal Justice Research, for Arnold Ventures, a non-profit that funds the Public Safety Assessment, a tool used by judges that predicts a person's likelihood to...
2019-10-23
1h 00
Triangulation (Video)
Ruha Benjamin: Race After Technology - Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, joins Mikah Sargent to talk about her new book "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code." They discuss how emerging technologies can reinforce and amplify racial biases and ways we could solve this problem. Buy "Race After Technology": https://amzn.to/2Bj8ICE Host: Mikah Sargent Guest: Ruha Benjamin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-10-18
1h 08
Triangulation (Audio)
Ruha Benjamin: Race After Technology - Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, joins Mikah Sargent to talk about her new book "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code." They discuss how emerging technologies can reinforce and amplify racial biases and ways we could solve this problem. Buy "Race After Technology": https://amzn.to/2Bj8ICE Host: Mikah Sargent Guest: Ruha Benjamin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-10-18
1h 08
Triangulation (Audio)
Ruha Benjamin: Race After Technology - Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, joins Mikah Sargent to talk about her new book "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code." They discuss how emerging technologies can reinforce and amplify racial biases and ways we could solve this problem. Buy "Race After Technology": https://amzn.to/2Bj8ICE Host: Mikah Sargent Guest: Ruha Benjamin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-10-18
1h 11
Triangulation (Audio)
Ruha Benjamin: Race After Technology - Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, joins Mikah Sargent to talk about her new book "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code." They discuss how emerging technologies can reinforce and amplify racial biases and ways we could solve this problem. Buy "Race After Technology": https://amzn.to/2Bj8ICE Host: Mikah Sargent Guest: Ruha Benjamin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-10-18
1h 08
Recode Daily
Hey Google: scan my race
This week, Google announced its new Pixel 4 phone. One of the features it touted was Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock the phone. But the advancement came with a price - for black people.If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to Reset for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get new episodes every week.Links to resources discussed: From the New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-google-darker-skin-tones-facial-recognition-pixel-20191002-5vxpgowknffnvbmy5eg7epsf34-story.htmlFrom Th...
2019-10-17
19 min
Rode Hoed
Het Discriminerende Algoritme
HOE TREDEN WE OP TEGEN DE UITWASSEN VAN KUNSTMATIGE INTELLIGENTIE? De ‘sollicitatierobot’ van Amazon stelde vrouwelijke kandidaten stelselmatig achter. Google’s gezichtsherkenningssoftware herkende zwarte mannen dikwijls als gorilla’s. En zelfrijdende auto’s identificeren mensen met een donkere huidskleur minder vaak als ‘persoon’ dan mensen met een lichte huidskleur. Moet de overheid ingrijpen om de samenleving te beschermen tegen de uitwassen van technologie? Hebben tech-giganten genoeg zelfregulerend vermogen om de problematiek zelf aan te pakken? Wie draagt de verantwoordelijkheid? Onder leiding van moderator Alberta Opoku spraken we erover met neuro-informaticus Sennay Ghebreab (v.a. 00:02:53), AI-consultant Walter Diele (v.a. 00:25:10), D66-kamerlid Kees...
2019-10-01
1h 42
Baha'i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson
Episode 36: Kamal Sinclair
Hello and welcome to the Baha’i Blogcast with me your host, Rainn Wilson.In this series of podcasts I interview members of the Baha’i Faith and friends from all over the world about their hearts, and minds, and souls, their spiritual journeys, what they’re interested in, and what makes them tick.In this episode, I sit down with the multi-talented Kamal Sinclair, a dancer, percussionist, multi-media producer, and currently the Executive Director of 'Future Architects'. In this conversation we talk about being in 'Stomp', new technology and emerging media, the future of work, meeting Ruhiyyih Khanum, how art ge...
2019-07-01
1h 17
African American Studies at Princeton University
Reimagining Science and Technology
In this episode of the AAS 21 podcast, Professor Ruha Benjamin and Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. discuss science and technology, the allure of objectivity related to this category of work, and consider what it takes to proceed in a “third” way. Professor Benjamin is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press 2013), Race After Technology, with Polity (forthcoming), and editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Technoscience, and the Carceral Imagination (Duke University Press, forthcoming), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
2018-03-28
52 min
Baha'i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson
Episode 22: Ruha Benjamin
Hello and welcome to the Baha’i Blogcast with me your host, Rainn Wilson.In this series of podcasts I interview members of the Baha’i Faith and friends from all over the world about their hearts, and minds, and souls, their spiritual journeys, what they’re interested in, and what makes them tick.In this episode I sit down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a mother, a scholar, an author and associate professor in African American Studies at Princeton University, who writes and speaks about science and technology, race and inequality. Ruha and I talk about racist robots and the use of...
2017-09-26
1h 06
Data & Society
Future Perfect: Designer and Discarded Genomes
Ruha Benjamin's presentation entitled "designer and discarded genomes: experimenting with sociological imagination through speculative methods" uses speculative field notes to explore the antecedents and implications of the current era of genetic engineering. This talk was presented for the event Future Perfect. In a moment when the future increasingly feels like a foregone conclusion, Future Perfect brought actors from a variety of world-building disciplines (from art and fiction, to law and science) together to explore the uses, abuses, and paradoxes of speculative futures. Curated by Data & Society artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington, Future Perfect was an experimental one-day, invitation-only conference...
2017-06-28
17 min