It's hard for me to imagine a prominent white paper on "algorithmic accountability" being written by four women even 5-10 years ago, which feels like progress https://datasociety.net/output/algorithmic-accountability-a-primer/ …
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Replying to @jbenton
How? A substantive portion, if not the majority of the pioneers in this field are women, since the earliest days. Some of the men getting attention now are late-comers to the field, while the critical women scholars are not. (I exclude myself: I do get attention/credit).
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Replying to @zeynep
I am happy to be wrong on this, and of course happy to see women recognized for their work! But FWIW, I just did a Google Scholar search for "algorithmic accountability" and counted up the authors in the top 20 papers returned — 11 men, 6 women.
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(I may also just be flashing back to the first conference I went to that touched on this subject a few years back, at Georgia Tech, which was heavily, heavily male.)
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Sorry to be obnoxious. My contribution is that I coined the term "algorithmic accountability" in 2013 in this slate piece http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/08/words_banned_from_bing_and_google_s_autocomplete_algorithms.html … ... to my knowledge no one had ever framed the issue that way before.
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6-10 years ago no one was talking about it in the same way as they are now. But Zeynep has a point that some of the earliest work on bias in computer systems was from Helen Nissenbaum and Batya Friedman
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And largely overlooked, scholars of color. Oscar Gandy had this in 1993. https://www.amazon.com/Panoptic-Sort-Information-Communication-Industries/dp/081331657X … *1993* Mark Zuckerberg was nine.pic.twitter.com/Yhq737RS9o
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