Data Feminism - (Strong Ideas) by Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren F Klein (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"We have seen through many examples that data science and artificial intelligence can reinforce structural inequalities like sexism and racism. Data is power, and that power is distributed unequally. This book offers a vision for a feminist data science that can challenge power and work towards justice. This book takes a stand against a world that benefits some (including the authors, two white women) at the expense of others. It seeks to provide concrete steps for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work towards justice, and for feminists seeking to learn how their own work can carry over to the growing field of data science. It is addressed to professionals in all fields where data-driven decisions are being made, as well as to communities that want to better understand the data that surrounds them. It is written for everyone who seeks to better understand the charts and statistics that they encounter in their day-to-day lives, and for everyone who seeks to better communicate the significance of such charts and statistics to others. This is an example-driven book written with a broad audience of scholars, students, and practitioners in mind. It offers a way of thinking about data, both their uses and their limits, that is informed by direct experience, by a commitment to action, and by the ideas associated with intersectional feminist thought"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.</b><p>Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In <i>Data Feminism</i>, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics--one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.</p><p>Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever "speak for themselves."</p><p><i>Data Feminism</i> offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But <i>Data Feminism</i> is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Without ever finger-wagging, Data Feminism reveals inequities and offers a way out of a broken system in which the numbers are allowed to lie."<i><br> --<b><i>WIRED <p/></i></b></i>Anyone who works with data--and all scientists do, of course--will benefit from reading this book. But the readers who may gain the most from it are those who are trying to use data in the public interest. Data Feminism does such a good job of integrating theories and projects across several fields that it will likely become a touchstone for teaching data science that goes beyond data ethics.<i><br> <i>--<b>American Scientist</b><br></i><br> </i>"...the authors' demystification of data science and advocacy for data feminism are extremely timely. The book also serves as an important introduction to intersectional feminist practice by providing inspiring examples of marginalized women and communities taking power back by collecting and wielding "counter-data" to challenge the status quo."<i><br>--<b><i>Times Higher Education</i></b> <p/></i>This call to action is especially important as issues of power and privilege continue to re-create inequalities in contemporary society.<i><br>--<b>CHOICE</b> <p/>"'Data Feminism</i> is a powerful call to action for everyone who cares about how technology reflects and reproduces social hierarchies and injustices. Brilliantly argued, engagingly written, and collaboratively crafted, this groundbreaking work enacts a feminist politics of knowledge production that will serve as a guide for generations to come."<br> --<b>Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University; author of <i>Race after Technology</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> <i>"Data Feminism</i> is an exceptional and entertaining primer for data scientists to understand essential ethical concepts like power, inequality, gender, and race."<br> --<b>DJ Patil, Head of Technology at Devoted Health, Inc., Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist</b> <p/> "If you want to build a foundation in data ethics and data justice, <i>Data Feminism</i> is a must-read. D'Ignazio and Klein have written a remarkable book that defines the kind of critical, intersectional feminist thinking we need right now. I can think of no better entry point to understand digital technology and its impact on society than <i>Data Feminism</i>, which amplifies so many important ideas we need to act upon. This book is a major contribution in defining what biased and harmful data is, and more importantly, what we can do about it."<br> --<b>Safiya Umoja Noble, UCLA; author of <i>Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism</i> and coeditor of <i>The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> "Most thinking about data science and data visualization tends to focus on statistics and technique. D'Ignazio and Klein take us out of that daze, opening our eyes to the realities that lie behind every data set: its motivation, its biases, and its existence in a harshly unequal world. Required reading for data scientists looking to conduct their craft responsibly."<br> <b>--Fernanda Viégas. Senior Researcher, co-leader at People + AI Research, Google</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Catherine D'Ignazio is Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. <p/>Lauren F. Klein is Associate Professor of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University.
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