4.7. Learn more

4.7.1. Systemic Power

• Systems have power to “bestow humanity on marginalized others” (Professor Anna Lauren Hoffmann)

  • Blog Post: Data Violence and How Bad Engineering Choices Can Damage Society

  • Video: What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Ethics: Navigating History, Privilege, and Power in Information and Data Science

  • Video: Beyond Fairness: Discourse, Violence, and Justice in a Datafied World

4.7.2. Design Justice

• “Design justice is a framework for analysis of how design distributes benefits and burdens between various groups of people. Design justice focuses explicitly on the ways that design reproduces and/or challenges the matrix of domination (white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, settler colonialism, and other forms of structural inequality).”

• It’s also about which groups get to be part of the design process itself.

• Sasha Costanza-Chock, present USA