{"product_id":"automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor-paperback","title":"Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Eubanks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWINNER: \u003c\/i\u003eThe 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAstra Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe People's Platform: \u003c\/i\u003e\"The single most important book about technology you will read this year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e: \"A must-read.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as \"failure to cooperate.\" In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems--rather than humans--control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAutomating Inequality, \u003c\/i\u003eVirginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Eubanks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDigital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of \u003ci\u003eAin't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. She lives in Troy, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772585345312,"sku":"9781250215789","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/41eb1b3f62f7a3a5bc0b2b55594d6f9e.webp?v=1780408898","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}