This book explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship.

Intersectional Automations explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship. As robots, machine learning applications, and human augmentics are artifacts of human culture, they sometimes carry stereotypes, biases, exclusions, and other forms of privilege into their computational logics, platforms, and/or embodiments. The essays in this multidisciplinary collection consider how questions of equity and social justice impact our understanding of these developments, analyzing not only the artifacts themselves, but also the discourses and practices surrounding them, including societal understandings, design choices, law and policy approaches, and their uses and abuses.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Inequity

Chapter 1 Blind Trust, Algorithmic Discrimination, and Self-Regulation in Facebook Advertisements by Chloé L. Nurik

Chapter 2 Faking Age? Ageing and the Algorithmic Assemblage by Kim Sawchuk, Scott DeJong, and Maude Gauthier

Chapter 3 It Was All Fun and Games: Gamewashing Automated Control by Sebastián Gómez

Chapter 4 From Automating to Informating: Toward a Productive Model of Human/Machine Collaboration in Higher Education by Jordan Canzonetta

Part 2: Robots and Social Justice

Chapter 5 The Misogyny of Transhumanism by Nikila Lakshmanan

Chapter 6 Are We All Too Human? Toward an Understanding of Posthumanism and Rights by Julia A. Empey

Chapter 7 Being Sophia: What Makes the World’s First Robot Citizen? by Madelaine Ley

Chapter 8 Robosexuality and Its Discontents by Nathan Rambukkana

Chapter 9 Robots as Caretakers: Understanding Long-Term Relationships Between Humans and Carebots by Jamie Foster Campbell and Kristina M. Green

Part 3: Posthuman Fictions, Futures, and Bodies

Chapter 10 Im/Material Bodies: Queering Embodiment Through Performance Art and Technology” by Joep Bouma

Chapter 11 Estranged World: Tenets of Xenofeminism and Tropes of Automated Alienation in Contemporary Alien Films by Christopher M. Cox

Chapter 12 Simulation and Synesthesia in Rez: Virtual Reality and the Queer Erotechnics of Becoming-Machinic by tobias c. van Veen

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