The impact of the social media app TikTok is explored in TikTok, Boom. Developed by the Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok has become the social media app that has resonated the most with Gen-Z. Comprised of high quality vertical video content and a complex algorithm, it is incredibly easy for someone to go viral on the …
Shalini Kantayya
The biases present in machine learning algorithms are examined in Coded Bias. While working on a project in the MIT Media Lab, computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that facial-recognition software was unable to identify her face, as an African-American female, unless she put on a white mask. Upon further examination, Joy learns that the training …