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8 months ago

How I categorised people | The 100 Days of Colour During ‘The 100 Days of Colour’ I monitored the way #Spotify recommended music to me to see how it changed depending on my input. I began because I had realised that over 95% of the music I was listening to and being recommended was made by white artists. I started this experiment looking through the 2020 black-white lens of race, then expanded to the definitions of race and ethnicity laid out by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards), before finally landing on skin tone. For the sake of the experiment, I was trying to find a way to group the artists in my playlists so I could track representation that didn’t give me panic attacks and anxiety because of the ethical consequences of what I was doing. I’ll talk more about the emotional impact of categorizing people based on superficial traits in a future video. This...

There were challenges with all three methods used to categorize artists on #Spotify during ‘The 100 Days of Colour’. I concluded that splitting us up based on superficial traits is an insufficient way of organising people.
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#music #algorithms #sci

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Emily Wright | It'll be alwright®

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8 months ago

How much are we missing when we choose to focus on what is the same?

We. Are. Diversity. To ignore diversity is to ignore who and what we are.

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#itllbealwright #emsjems #diversity #socialjustice #equity

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Emily Wright | It'll be alwright®

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8 months ago

The Goal | The 100 Days of Colour YouTube video by It'll be alwright®

I began ‘The 100 Days of Colour’ after discovering that over 95% of the music I was listening to and being recommended by the #Spotify program was made by white artists.

Link in bio for info.

Questions? #AemA #AskEmAnything

#itllbealwright #music #algorithms #science #technology

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