FemResThe Living Review

Current theme: Data, platforms and power

Who shapes our digital lives?

A search, a face, a benefits application: each encounters rules deciding who becomes visible and who is excluded. Starting with Data Feminism, this issue follows classification, moderation, prediction and design into everyday life. Who performs the labor behind automation? Which communities are claiming rights to participate, appeal and refuse? Technology’s future also depends on who can change today’s rules.

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Connections & Further Reading

Cover storyData Feminism
PapersGender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender ClassificationJoy Buolamwini; Timnit GebruBooksBehind the ScreenSarah T. RobertsArticlesNot My AI: A Feminist Framework to Challenge Public-Sector Algorithmic DecisionsJoana Varon and Paz PeñaBooksGlitch Feminism: A ManifestoLegacy RussellConceptTechnology CritiqueConceptAI Ethics

Beyond the Cover

29 · Who shapes our digital lives?

Books8

  1. Race After TechnologyRuha Benjamin · 2019
  2. Automating InequalityVirginia Eubanks · 2018
  3. Behind the ScreenSarah T. Roberts · 2021
  4. Programmed InequalityMar Hicks (published as Marie Hicks) · 2017
  5. Design JusticeSasha Costanza-Chock · 2020
  6. Atlas of AIKate Crawford · 2022
  7. Glitch Feminism: A ManifestoLegacy Russell · 2020
  8. How to Do NothingJenny Odell · 2019

Films2

  1. The CleanersHans Block; Moritz Riesewieck · 2018
  2. Hidden FiguresTheodore Melfi · 2016

Videos2

  1. I Saw None, so I Built One: Women in the Tech CommunityAishath Adnan · 2022
  2. Claiming Back the Role of Women in TechnologyMelina Masnatta · 2019

Articles7

  1. Feminist Principles of the Internet — Version 2.0Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and feminist contributors · 2016
  2. Not My AI: A Feminist Framework to Challenge Public-Sector Algorithmic DecisionsJoana Varon and Paz Peña · 2022
  3. Free to Be Online?Plan International · 2020
  4. Women’s Digital Inclusion in Latin America and the CaribbeanIliana Vaca-Trigo; María Elena Valenzuela · 2022
  5. Troll Patrol: Crowdsourced Evidence of Online Abuse Against WomenAmnesty International & Element AI · 2018
  6. Online Opposition to Gender EqualityUN Women Asia and the Pacific · 2023
  7. Tipping Point: Online Violence Against Women in the Age of AIJulie Posetti, Kaylee Williams, Lea Hellmueller, Pauline Renaud, Nabeelah Shabbir & Nermine Aboulez · 2026

Papers5

  1. Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender ClassificationJoy Buolamwini; Timnit Gebru · 2018
  2. Feminist Data VisualizationCatherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein · 2016
  3. Data Feminism for AILauren F. Klein and Catherine D'Ignazio · 2024
  4. A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology StudiesSafiya Umoja Noble · 2016
  5. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth CenturyDonna Haraway · 1985