Coverage of our Events:

• Outi Puukko and Minna Aslama Horowitz wrote about the Coded Bias event on the Raster.fi website.

Further Reading

The Role of AI in Racial Bias and Discrimination

The following reading material accompanies the Coded Bias: Unmasking the Abuses of Face Recognition Technologies in Society event 20 – 27 March 2021

• Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru. 2018. Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification. Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, in PMLR 81:77-91.
• Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, Joy Buolamwini, Joonseok Lee, and Emily Denton. 2020. Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 145–151.

Additional References:

• Will Douglas Heaven. Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled. MIT Technology Review, July 17, 2020.
• Joy Buolamwini, Gender Shades Project and Algorithmic Justice League, MIT Media Lab.
• Data for Black Lives
• Nani Jansen Reventlow. Data collection is not the solution for Europe’s racism problem. Al-Jazeera, 2020.

Further reading material is available on the reading list for the Critical AI & Data Justice in Society course: https://aaltoaidatajustice.wordpress.com/topics-readings/

Sámi Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledges, Technology and Governance

• Kuokkanen, R. J. & Sweet, V., 23 Jan 2020. Indigenous Security Theory: Intersectional Analysis from the Bottom Up in the Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security. Hoogensen Gjørv, G., Lanteigne, M. & Sam-Aggrey, H. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 80-90
• Kuokkanen, R., 2020. Indigenous Self-Government in the Arctic: Assessing the Scope and Legitimacy in Nunavut, Greenland and Sápmi in the Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic. Koivurova, T., Broderstad, E. G., Cambou, D., Dorough, D. & Stammler, F. (eds.). Routledge, p. 253-266 
• Kuokkanen, R. (2019). Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender. Oxford University Press.
• Laiti, O., Harrer, S., Uusiautti, S., & Kultima, A. (2020). Sustaining intangible heritage through video game storytelling – the case of the sami game jam. International Journal of Heritage Studies,1-16. doi:10.1080/13527258.2020.1747103       
• Kultima, A. & Laiti O. (2019). Sami game jam – learning, exploring, reflecting and sharing indigenous culture through game jamming. Proceedings of the 2019 DiGRA International Conference: Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo-Mix. http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2019_paper_367.pdf
• Öhman, M. (2021). The Ski or the Wheel?: Foregrounding Sámi technological Innovation in the Arctic Region and Challenging its Invisibility in the History of Humanity. In: Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies. Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Steve Larkin, Chris Andersen (editor) Routledge.
• Öhman, M. (2020). Gut la dån? Vem är du? Kukas sie olet?. In: Kiruna Forever. Daniel Golling, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco (editor) Stockholm: Statens centrum för arkitektur och design, ArkDes Förlag.