Automated hermeneutical injustice?

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Algorithmic Discrimination Emilie van den Hoven

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hermeneutical injustice: [T]he injustice of having some significant area of one’s social experience obscured from collective understanding owing to hermeneutical marginalization. (Fricker, 158)

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the underlying concepts and corresponding words, our ‘hermeneutical resources’, are not neutral

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deprives disadvantaged parties of the conceptual tools needed to make sense of their experiences, and consequently makes it impossible for them to render these experiences intelligible to others or to argue against any wrongs committed against them as a result

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members of certain groups can’t contribute equally to the formation of the shared meanings, concepts and interpretative tropes that operate within society

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interpretations of that group’s social experiences that are biased because insufficiently influenced by the subject group

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sexual harassment as flirting

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without concepts like algorithmic discrimination and machine bias, it is much more difficult for those subjected to this type of discrimination to make sense of their (shared) experiences, to render them intelligible to others, and consequently to take action

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suspicion on the part of defendants might never have become actual knowledge of what was happening to them due to computation

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Argumentation, and the possibility of contestation, is what differentiates the Rule of Law from a Rule by Law

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you cannot contest what you cannot name.

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