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[Discussion Post - Assignment]After reading the two attached files, please answer the following questions.Part 1:Reflect on dela Peña'sdiscussion of how race has been treated in the literature on technology. How does she outline some of the ways that whiteness and racism have played a role in the cultural understanding of race and technology?What evidence of this have you noticed? What are some ways that this could begin to be addressed?Part 2: How doesNoble think that search engines and their algorithms reflect and contribute to the racist / sexist / etc. prejudices found in society? What are some ways that internettechnologies deepen racial inequalities?What in your own experience have been effects of internet technologies on equality and prejudice? What are some ways we could approach internet technologies to address this?

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Dear All,
Good Day to You!
Hope you are doing well and staying safe! The journal article, The History of Technology, the Resistance of Archives as well as Whiteness of Race by Carolyn de la Pena extremely insightful and endearing! Essentially classification on basis of race sort the human-beings into several racial groupings irrespective of their consent. With respect to the overall influence to the science and technology, African-Americans are the most neglected section of the society. Most often they have limited or no access as the participants in the Science and Technology or perhaps are consumer of the products of technology. This article explains the power dynamics that exists in the Silicon Valley that shapes perspective and how it impacts the science of technology. Indeed, I agree with her, whiteness and racism have played a role in the cultural understanding of race and technology. Essentially, whites are the sweetener and blue-eyed white gentlemen in the Silicon Valley can only be the next Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos or Henry Ford. Essentially,

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