Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Book Overview

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed the way they are. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares: Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393634639
• ISBN13: 9780393634631
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"