- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
- A short and engaging book that explores the societal impact of algorithms and dives into examples of how big data algorithms are being used to worsen societal inequities
- Borrow from the UC Berkeley Library here
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Illustrates how search engine algorithms perpetuate the same prejudices held by the person who builds them, with examples of how they misrepresent people of colour, and particularly women of colour, in harmful ways
- Borrow from the UC Berkeley Library here