Gender and the semantic web.
Image by charlton_b via FlickrRead Write Web writes about if the Semantic Web will have a gender. One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it.
As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? “Objective” descriptions of the world and the relationships in it can cause real problems, particularly for people with little power in those relationships.
How will the emerging Semantic Web understand relationships and what will that mean for us as human users?
Austrian researcher Corinna Bath argues that there is a real risk that the semantic web of the future will be built with the perspectives and assumptions of male computer scientists baked-in unconsciously - at the expense of everyone else
“Developers often implicitly assume that users shares their own interests, preferences, competencies and abilities.” (about the I-methodology)
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