The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases

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Autor(a) principal: Carrera, Fernanda
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
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Título da fonte: Matrizes (Online)
Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/167187
Resumo: This article proposes to question the algorithmic processes of image search mechanisms and their insertion in the outlines of contemporary racism and sexism. Fundamental devices for the maintenance of the media and communication mechanics, these databases help to guide and build the social imaginary about what it means to be a woman and to be black by means of subtle modes of erasure or overexposure in certain search results. Here, the keywords aggressiveness, kindness, beauty and ugliness were analyzed in the image databases Getty Images and Shutterstock, seeking to encompass the aesthetic and affective dimensions of the discriminatory biases possibly impregnated in these mechanisms. It is understood that the results presented here are evidence of the technological opacity that permeates the productive field of these apparatuses and of the algorithmization of gender and race inequalities constituted in the social context.
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spelling The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databasesA raça e o gênero da estética e dos afetos: algoritmização do racismo e do sexismo em bancos contemporâneos de imagens digitaisBancos de imagemAlgoritmosGêneroRaçaImage databasesalgorithmsgenderraceThis article proposes to question the algorithmic processes of image search mechanisms and their insertion in the outlines of contemporary racism and sexism. Fundamental devices for the maintenance of the media and communication mechanics, these databases help to guide and build the social imaginary about what it means to be a woman and to be black by means of subtle modes of erasure or overexposure in certain search results. Here, the keywords aggressiveness, kindness, beauty and ugliness were analyzed in the image databases Getty Images and Shutterstock, seeking to encompass the aesthetic and affective dimensions of the discriminatory biases possibly impregnated in these mechanisms. It is understood that the results presented here are evidence of the technological opacity that permeates the productive field of these apparatuses and of the algorithmization of gender and race inequalities constituted in the social context.Este artigo questiona os processos de algoritmização do racismo e sexismo em bancos de imagem digitais. Dispositivos essenciais para a manutenção da engrenagem midiática e comunicacional, estes bancos ajudam a guiar os sentidos sobre ser mulher e ser negro por meio de modos sutis de construção de subjetivação. Foram analisadas as palavras-chaveaggressiveness, kindness, beauty e ugliness, nos bancos de imagem Getty Images e Shutterstock, abrangendo as dimensões estética e afetiva dos vieses discriminatórios impregnados nestes mecanismos. Entende-se que os resultados evidenciam a opacidade tecnológica que permeia o campo produtivo destes aparatos e a algoritmização das desigualdades de gênero e raça constituídas no seio social.Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação2020-12-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/16718710.11606/issn.1982-8160.v14i2p217-240MATRIZes; v. 14 n. 2 (2020); 217-240MATRIZes; Vol. 14 No 2 (2020); 217-240MATRIZes; V. 14 N. 2 (2020); 217-240MATRIZes; Vol. 14 No. 2 (2020); 217-240MATRIZes; Vol. 14 Núm. 2 (2020); 217-2401982-81601982-2073reponame:Matrizes (Online)instname:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)instacron:USPengporhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/167187/167655https://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/167187/167654http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCarrera, Fernanda2021-01-01T19:10:03Zoai:revistas.usp.br:article/167187Revistahttps://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizesPUBhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/oaimatrizes@usp.br1982-81601982-2073opendoar:2023-01-12T16:39:38.822474Matrizes (Online) - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
A raça e o gênero da estética e dos afetos: algoritmização do racismo e do sexismo em bancos contemporâneos de imagens digitais
title The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
spellingShingle The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
Carrera, Fernanda
Bancos de imagem
Algoritmos
Gênero
Raça
Image databases
algorithms
gender
race
title_short The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
title_full The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
title_fullStr The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
title_full_unstemmed The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
title_sort The Race and gender of aesthetics and affections: algorithmization of racism and sexism in contemporary digital image databases
author Carrera, Fernanda
author_facet Carrera, Fernanda
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Bancos de imagem
Algoritmos
Gênero
Raça
Image databases
algorithms
gender
race
topic Bancos de imagem
Algoritmos
Gênero
Raça
Image databases
algorithms
gender
race
description This article proposes to question the algorithmic processes of image search mechanisms and their insertion in the outlines of contemporary racism and sexism. Fundamental devices for the maintenance of the media and communication mechanics, these databases help to guide and build the social imaginary about what it means to be a woman and to be black by means of subtle modes of erasure or overexposure in certain search results. Here, the keywords aggressiveness, kindness, beauty and ugliness were analyzed in the image databases Getty Images and Shutterstock, seeking to encompass the aesthetic and affective dimensions of the discriminatory biases possibly impregnated in these mechanisms. It is understood that the results presented here are evidence of the technological opacity that permeates the productive field of these apparatuses and of the algorithmization of gender and race inequalities constituted in the social context.
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