From the first feminist forums to #MeToo, the web has become a place where women can express themselves and meet others. The same is true for people of colour and LGBTQIA+ people. Yet all too often, the web remains a place where minorities are discriminated against and subjected to violence, as an extension of what happens offline. What’s more, the algorithms that underpin a growing proportion of our experience of online platforms, as well as certain administrative decisions, incorporate biases that are unfavourable to them.

On Monday 12 February, Mathilde Saliou, a journalist specialised in digital issues, presented at DK her book Technoféminisme. Comment le numérique aggrave les inégalités. In this book, she examined the many facets of this phenomenon and showed that, while digital space could help to increase the power of minority groups, it could also act as a catalyst for the inequalities of which they are victims.

Every 2nd Monday of the month, these critical reflection encounters propose to address topics related to the digital (e.g. algorithms, surveillance capitalism, ecological impacts, etc.) and to explore alternative ways of doing things (discovery of free and ethical tools, de-gluing of smartphones, protection of communications, etc.).

These meetings are organised by one of Constant’s partner, Tactic.