The UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation and the Climate and Urban Sustainability Program (CUSP) present Roderic Crooks, a UCI assistant professor of informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.
His book "Access Is Capture: Datafication, Race, and Education" (University of California Press, 2024) is set in the racially segregated public schools of Los Angeles, where ongoing technological transformation meets the realities of structural inequality. The book demonstrates how an approach centered on so-called digital divides leads educational organizations to prioritize investments in computing infrastructure and, at the same time, to ignore the role of data-intensive computational technologies in structuring and perpetuating racialized inequality.
Please RSVP by April 26 so organizers can get a head count for lunch. Direct questions about the event to Maureen Purcell at mjpurcel@uci.edu.
RSVP links for all UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation and the Climate and Urban Sustainability Program (CUSP) events is here: sites.uci.edu/cusp/news/.
