{"id":945,"date":"2016-08-30T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=945"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:53:44","slug":"nextdoor-racial-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/08\/30\/nextdoor-racial-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Nextdoor Racial Profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Public Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Tech Considered<\/a> series recently released a very interesting segment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/08\/23\/490950267\/social-network-nextdoor-moves-to-block-racial-profiling-online\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Social Network Nextdoor Moves To Block Racial Profiling Online.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0This is a very encouraging move, as <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/106341\/nextdoor-the-social-network-for-neighbors-is-becoming-a-home-for-racial-profiling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor posts often\u00a0reinforce racial stereotypes<\/a>, and\u00a0these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/oakland\/racial-profiling-via-nextdoorcom\/Content?oid=4526919\" target=\"_blank\">virtual actions can have very serious real world implications<\/a>. Preliminary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/social\/Nextdoor-Uses-Algorithms-Outreach-to-Curb-Racial-Profiling.html\" target=\"_blank\">tests of Nextdoor&#8217;s efforts have reduced racial profiling by as much as 75%<\/a>. Hopefully they will have similar success when the changes are\u00a0widely implemented!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Public Radio All Tech Considered series recently released a very interesting segment: &#8220;Social Network Nextdoor Moves To Block Racial Profiling Online.&#8221;\u00a0This is a very encouraging move, as Nextdoor posts often\u00a0reinforce racial stereotypes, and\u00a0these virtual actions can have very serious real world implications. Preliminary tests of Nextdoor&#8217;s efforts have reduced racial profiling by as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22242,3504,2051],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-racial-consciousness","tag-social-structure","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}