{"id":1592,"date":"2023-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2025-01-01T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:31:27","slug":"man-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/08\/05\/man-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Tracey Spicer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, August 5th 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In our increasingly wired and algorithmically directed world, it is all too easy to become complacent about the technology that we interact with daily. The essays in Australian journalist Tracey Spicer\u2019s short but hard-hitting collection challenge us to look more closely at the prejudices and inequalities baked into a system organised and run by and for young white men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Her focus ranges from the writing out of the many women who contributed to the development of computing to the physical obliteration of black people from Twitter images, the reification of gender roles in Alexa and Siri, and the way algorithmic policing and sentencing perpetuate structural racism. She also explores how an intersectional approach could benefit not just the disadvantaged but the field as a whole.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The book concludes with an epilogue outlining practical ways in which we can rage against the machine: Support companies run by women and marginalised.&nbsp; Changing the voice of your PDA from female to non-binary. Find out if there was a human involved in the loop that rejected your loan\/job\/visa application. Time is running out, but it is not too late to change things. <em>Man Made<\/em> is Spicer\u2019s attempt to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/southland\/the-ensign\/challenging-%E2%80%98norms%E2%80%99-technology\">https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/southland\/the-ensign\/challenging-%E2%80%98norms%E2%80%99-technology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracey Spicer Simon &amp; Schuster Otago Daily Times, August 5th 2023 In our increasingly wired and algorithmically directed world, it is all too easy to become complacent about the technology that we interact with daily. The essays in Australian journalist Tracey Spicer\u2019s short but hard-hitting collection challenge us to look more closely at the prejudices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,380,368,18,441],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-428","tag-essays","tag-non-fiction","tag-odt","tag-tracey-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}