AlgorithmsBias In Library Discovery
ProQuest Team Meeting, 12/12/17
Matthew Reidsma // Grand Valley State University
Search Trust
Summon's Topic Explorer with Query Expansion
Keyword matching of "mania" without regard for context
Suggesting that a search for women was really a search for trash. From Damn You, Autosuggest
What causes stress in the workforce? Summon says it's women.
What about women in film? Sexploitation films, of course!
It's not just experience algorithms.
Query expansion suggesting that virginity and sexual abstinence are synonyms
Why would we suggest folks search for children's sex literature?? (From @Nadaleen)
Rape equated with hearsay evidence in Summon.
If a bad idea is to be converted into a good one, the source of its weakness must be discovered and repaired. A person falling into a manhole is rarely helped by making it possible to fall faster and more efficiently.
Joseph Weizenbaum
Weizenbaum, J. (1976). Computer Power and Human Reason: From calculation to judgment. New York: W. H Freeman and Company. p. 35
If the computer needs rules in order to work, then areas of knowledge in which rules had previously been unimportant must formulate them or perish.
Sherry Turkle
Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 107
I will make my assumptions and oversights explicit.
I understand that my work may have enormous effects on society, many of them beyond my comprehension.
We need to fear the consequences of our work more than we love the cleverness of our ideas.
Mike Monteiro
How Designers Destroyed the World