🕰️✊ We think of #clocks as neutral tools for staying on schedule, but for centuries, they were viewed as instruments of control.
#history #technology #tech #sociology #time #innovation #culture #education
“By using public data to address factors that created an environment for crime, the … project looked to widen the lens of big data technologies. Funding public resources to respond to the underlying economic and social problems appeared to offer more long-term solutions. Big data alone cannot stop the shooting without resources to address the underlying causes of violence.” (Ferguson 2017)
We have the tools to prevent so much unnecessary suffering, but not the political will. #sociology #police
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After having put it down for 3(?) years, I finished Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne. 📖
Good overview of the use of big data in policing and predictive policing. Not a lot of analysis along a critical race or surveillance studies angle, but I guess it’s a good companion to Benjamin, Alexander, Browne, Muhammad. Written in a very compelling way.
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d1667f0d-be89-4304-a5fd-01bcac16b9ca #books #bookstodon #police #surveillance #bigData #sociology
Love that sociology is treated as a "soft" (which is bad, apparently) discipline by economists and other STEM professionals and yet *we* are the ones that have become the enemy of the state.
It's almost like what we do has an appreciable impact. #sociology
Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼♀️🐈🐈⬛
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This *looks* like a pro-social use of AI, but it's not https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ai-data-children-predict-criminals-fwclzh323
1. Sociology has a pretty good idea of what factors contribute to crime, such as poverty. This "solution" is a surveillance-based intervention into individual rather than structural harms.
2. It fails to notice that predictive risk systems themselves victimize the vulnerable; they amplify bias and create feedback loops.
3. This will necessarily treat children as pre-criminals.
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This *looks* like a pro-social use of AI, but it's not https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ai-data-children-predict-criminals-fwclzh323
1. Sociology has a pretty good idea of what factors contribute to crime, such as poverty. This "solution" is a surveillance-based intervention into individual rather than structural harms.
2. It fails to notice that predictive risk systems themselves victimize the vulnerable; they amplify bias and create feedback loops.
3. This will necessarily treat children as pre-criminals.
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