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Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez · 12 Mar 2019 · 480pp · 119,407 words

BY THE SAME AUTHOR Do it Like a Woman Copyright © 2019 Caroline Criado Perez Jacket © 2019 Abrams Published in 2019 by Abrams Press, an imprint of ABRAMS. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored

The Internet of Garbage

by Sarah Jeong · 14 Jul 2015 · 81pp · 24,626 words

” in the early days echoes how nebulous the word “harassment” is today. While the media focuses on discrete, uncomplicated campaigns of hatred against women like Caroline Criado-Perez in 2013, Anita Sarkeesian in 2012, or Kathy Sierra in 2007, the worst harassment often occurs in deeply complicated circumstances. When complex Internet pile-ons

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it, the definition must be improved. II. On Harassment HARASSMENT ON THE NEWS With the international attention on the mass of Twitter threats sent to Caroline Criado-Perez in 2013 (and the later prosecution of some of the people who sent her those threats), and increasing media coverage of other incidents, “harassment” is

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is bandied around with increasing frequency. The word remains poorly defined, but it is generally understood in relation to the following high-profile campaigns. Caroline Criado-Perez In 2013, Caroline Criado-Perez called for a woman to be featured on an English banknote. She won, resulting in Jane Austen replacing Charles Darwin on the tenner. Then

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impart a feeling of safety to targets. Code is never neutral, and interfaces can signal all kinds of things to users. For example, what if Caroline Criado-Perez had been able to hit a “panic button,” one that prompted her with a message that Twitter Trust & Safety was looking into the issue, and

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the same cost-cutting attitude can be spotted in early-stage platforms. For example, Twitter implemented the “Report Abuse” button in 2013 shortly after the Caroline Criado-Perez story made waves in the media. The implementation of more extensive content moderation had been in the works, but had to be rushed out in

Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words

were too homogenous. Remember that in policymaking, which affects huge numbers of people, demographic differences help to inform deliberations. In her fine book Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez highlights that when more women were brought into decision-making positions, collective intelligence started to undergo a remarkable shift. A fresh analysis revealed that the

Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America

by Garrett Neiman · 19 Jun 2023 · 386pp · 112,064 words

Longer Than Men,” Vice, September 22, 2016, https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k9yj5/surprise-on-average-women-work-four-years-longer-than-men. 28. Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (New York: Abrams, 2019). 29. Lauren Caruso, “Women Who Wear Makeup to Work Get Paid

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

by Tim Harford · 2 Feb 2021 · 428pp · 103,544 words

many others before me—it didn’t occur to me to check. I hope it would now, because since writing that article I have interviewed Caroline Criado Perez about her book Invisible Women. Meeting her was fun—she strolled into the BBC with an adorable little dog who curled up in the corner

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy · 14 Apr 2020

Pepper has been so widely “regendered” by the public as female since it contrasts with the broader gendered trend noted by author and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez to assume ambiguous things are male unless specifically coded female.)33 All of this is part and parcel of a human tendency to anthropomorphize animals

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek · 3 Nov 2016 · 302pp · 74,350 words

unconscious thoughts.” “Sure thing, bright girl,” said Minerva. As they drove to the airport, Adeline told Minerva about the latest Twitter scandal. A journalist named Caroline Criado-Perez had started a campaign to get Jane Austen on the ten pound British note. Thousands of people signed up and supported the effort

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. Caroline Criado-Perez’s WaNks Index Score was 2.577861406696081. Jane Austen was a writer from the Nineteenth Century who had written books about marriage and money. The

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dumb assholes. Nothing is more odious in a society that hates women than a woman who expresses an opinion. The more that people tweeted about Caroline Criado-Perez, the more that Twitter could serve advertisements. Nothing made people tweet like outrage. So Twitter made money off of rape and death threats sent to

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Caroline Criado-Perez. Adeline watched with fascination. “Darling,” she said to Minerva, “If I keep on, I am rather sure I am going to receive my own threats

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It

by Matthew Williams · 23 Mar 2021 · 592pp · 125,186 words

that involve social media, but far fewer than might be imagined given the amount of hate that abounds online. In 2013, feminist campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado Perez began a petition to replace the planned image of Winston Churchill on the new £10 note with a female figure. The campaign was a success

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

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 9 Oct 2017 · 223pp · 60,909 words

to report a tweet as abusive didn’t come until a full six years after the company’s founding, in 2013—and then only after Caroline Criado-Perez, a British woman who had successfully led a campaign to get Jane Austen onto the £10 note, was the target of an abuse campaign that

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, [homepage], Wayback Machine, February 2, 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20070202022702/www.twitter.com. 19. Lucy Battersby, “Twitter Criticised for Failing to Respond to Caroline Criado-Perez Rape Threats,” Age, July 29, 2013, http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/twitter-criticised-for-failing-to-respond-to-caroline-criadoperez

The Road to Conscious Machines

by Michael Wooldridge · 2 Nov 2018 · 346pp · 97,890 words

’t believe me on this point, then I invite you to read the startling book that opened my eyes to this problem: Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez.22 Her key point is that pretty much everything in our world is designed and manufactured with a model of people which reflects just one