Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots

This article analyses apps and artificial intelligence chatbots designed to offer survivors of sexual violence with emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Demonstrating how these technologies both confront and constitute forms of oppression, t...

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Main Authors: Renee Shelby, Jenna Harb, Kathryn Henne
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Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2021-12-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
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Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/1589
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spelling doaj-art-01ba6764c8f34830b5ed1fc71ff119872025-08-20T03:16:07ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752021-12-0110410.14763/2021.4.1589Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo botsRenee Shelby0Jenna Harb1Kathryn Henne2Northwestern University Australian National UniversityAustralian National University This article analyses apps and artificial intelligence chatbots designed to offer survivors of sexual violence with emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Demonstrating how these technologies both confront and constitute forms of oppression, this analysis complicates assumptions about data protection through an intersectional feminist examination of these digital tools. In surveying different anti-violence apps, we interrogate how the racial formation of whiteness manifests in ways that can be understood as the political, representational, and structural intersectional dimensions of data protection.https://policyreview.info/node/1589Data protectionRacegenderArtificial intelligenceIntersectionality
spellingShingle Renee Shelby
Jenna Harb
Kathryn Henne
Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
Internet Policy Review
Data protection
Race
gender
Artificial intelligence
Intersectionality
title Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
title_full Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
title_fullStr Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
title_full_unstemmed Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
title_short Whiteness in and through data protection: an intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
title_sort whiteness in and through data protection an intersectional approach to anti violence apps and metoo bots
topic Data protection
Race
gender
Artificial intelligence
Intersectionality
url https://policyreview.info/node/1589
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