Against Bias
How Computing Cultures Manufacture Disengagement
$175.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
A rare look into the making of algorithmic surveillance—and how algorithmic harm happens.
How do computer scientists negotiate the thorny political issues their work is involved in—such as state violence, racial profiling, or the deskilling of labor—when they make surveillance technology? Examining how disciplinary conventions and larger social forces shape how computer scientists think, Against Bias by Norma M. Ller diagnoses a deeply rooted culture of disengagement in compu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262055581 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262055589 |
| Author: | Norma Tamaria Möllers |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“This elegantly framed study on the origins of surveillance tech is one-of-a-kind—a fascinating and monumental book that fundamentally reshapes how we think about cultures of technology.”
—Winifred R. Poster, Founder and Director, Labor Tech Research Network
“How do people who worry about privacy as individuals end up building an automated surveillance? Norma Möllers deftly portrays the life worlds of computing researchers as well as private and public sector actors, and in a way that few scholars can, she links the everyday of language and practice to broader social forces and institutions.”
—Lilly Irani, Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego; author of Chasing Innovation
Norma Tamaria Möllers
Norma Tamaria M llers is Associate Professor in Sociology at Queen’s University in Canada.
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