Film Screening: Coded Bias (Available 3/23-3/30)

Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini´s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces and women accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

This is a free virtual film screening. Please complete this registration form below to gain access to the film link and passcode. Please note that you will be able to view the film anytime from 3/23-3/30 even though you are registering for a specific date.

Related Readings through OSU Libraries:

• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
• Automating Inequality : How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
• Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
• Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
• The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
• Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

This event is sponsored by the OSU Libraries, the Center for Africana Studies, Division of Insitutional Diversity, Digital Humanities Initiative, and the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies program.

There will also be an associated filmmaker Q&A on March 30 at 6:00. Register for the Q&A here.