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3 - Digital Racism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2019

Sonu Bedi
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Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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This chapter considers two kinds of injustice that happen online: digital discrimination and digital steering. Digital discrimination occurs when users discriminate on the basis of race. The motivating question of this chapter is how to combat this kind of discrimination. Even though digital discrimination is wrong, the law makes it difficult to hold websites responsible for it. However, this chapter argues that we can hold websites responsible for facilitating discrimination, what I call “digital steering.” We can hold websites responsible for encouraging or directing their users to discriminate on the basis of race. These platforms structure how we interact online. They make decisions, for instance, about website design, user interface, profile creation, and filtering and searching mechanisms. If these websites make it easy for us to discriminate on the basis of race, they engage in digital steering. In short, this chapter distinguishes steering from discrimination as an important way to combat racism in our digital lives.

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Private Racism , pp. 82 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Digital Racism
  • Sonu Bedi, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book: Private Racism
  • Online publication: 09 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108233507.004
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  • Digital Racism
  • Sonu Bedi, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book: Private Racism
  • Online publication: 09 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108233507.004
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  • Digital Racism
  • Sonu Bedi, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book: Private Racism
  • Online publication: 09 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108233507.004
Available formats
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