“Death reminds us how young social media is,” said Jed Brubaker, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies social media. “As it grows up, and it’s in the process right now, we talk about policies and regulations, things that should be considered that we didn’t know...
The Daily Camera published a letter to the editor by journalism student Rudy Joon, urging elected officials to pass House Bill 19-1032, which would clarify content requirements for public schools that offer comprehensive human sexuality education.
The issue isn’t that the technology itself is racist — instead, as Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an Information Science PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder and one of the signatories of the letter told The Verge at the time, these technologies “are reinforcing human biases” and perpetuating inequality as a result.
Thanks for your interest in Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information. We welcome your questions or comments and will respond as quickly as possible.