Jenny L. Davis is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University. Blending sociology with tech studies, she explores the ways design shapes society and society shapes design. Her previous book, How Artifacts Afford, decodes how politics and power are embedded in everyday technologies.Apryl A. Williams is Associate Professor of Digital Studies and Communication at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Her previous book, Not My Type, offers a powerful critique of how technology replicates and amplifies real-world social inequities in digital culture.

• ContentsIntroductionPart One1. What's Wrong with Fairness?2. Toward a Reparative Research ProgramPart TwoInterlude: Speculative Design for Reparative Algorithmic Futures3. Speculative Design I: Pik | A Reparative Dating App for Black Women and Femmes4. Speculative Design II: The Power-to-Prove Legal ParadigmPart Three5. Obstacles and InroadsConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Jenny L. Davis is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University. Blending sociology with tech studies, she explores the ways design shapes society and society shapes design. Her previous book, How Artifacts Afford, decodes how politics and power are embedded in everyday technologies.Apryl A. Williams is Associate Professor of Digital Studies and Communication at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Her previous book, Not My Type, offers a powerful critique of how technology replicates and amplifies real-world social inequities in digital culture.

• ContentsIntroductionPart One1. What's Wrong with Fairness?2. Toward a Reparative Research ProgramPart TwoInterlude: Speculative Design for Reparative Algorithmic Futures3. Speculative Design I: Pik | A Reparative Dating App for Black Women and Femmes4. Speculative Design II: The Power-to-Prove Legal ParadigmPart Three5. Obstacles and InroadsConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex