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Safiya Umoja Noble

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

The structured facts the source records about Safiya Umoja Noble, the count of declared adjacencies in the corpus, and the federation map zoomed on this node and its neighbours.

person

↑4 declared connections

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Person
Status
active
Confidence
high
Entity ID
person-safiya-noble
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Tags los-angeles, california, us, professor, ucla, library-and-information-science, algorithmic-accountability, algorithmic-oppression, search-engine-bias, racial-justice, gender-justice, black-feminist, c2i2, minderoo-initiative, macarthur-fellow-2021, critical-information-studies, author

Safiya Umoja Noble · 3 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

4 adjacencies, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Safiya Umoja Noble’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity. Some records appear in both because the corpus names them from both sides — those rows carry a note.

Direct from this record

2 links

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Inferred backlinks

2 links

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03 · Background

From the source record.

Body prose as it appears in movement-graph’s published markdown for this entity. Links to other corpus entities resolve to their graph page; links to deeper repo paths are kept as text so the page does not invent a route.

Internet-studies scholar and critical information-science researcher; David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at UCLA, Director of the Center on Resilience and Digital Justice, co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and advisory committee member at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2018), the named publication most often cited for placing the term algorithmic oppression into general public and policy circulation.

Named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow with the citation "Highlighting the ways digital technologies and internet architectures magnify racism, sexism, and harmful stereotypes," Noble earned her PhD in library and information science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2012 — the doctoral project that developed into Algorithms of Oppression across the half-decade to publication. Before academia she worked for more than a decade in multicultural marketing, advertising, and public relations.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

4 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. safiyaunoble.com

    Checked 2026-06-03

    Noble's own bio/CV page — primary source for her David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences; Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at UCLA; Director of the Center on Resilience and Digital Justice; Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2); and interim director of the UCLA DataX Initiative

  2. dair-institute.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    DAIR team page for Noble — primary source for her role as a member of the advisory committee of the Distributed AI Research Institute

  3. macfound.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    MacArthur Foundation 2021 Fellow page — primary source for the Foundation's citation "Highlighting the ways digital technologies and internet architectures magnify racism, sexism, and harmful stereotypes"

  4. codeforsociety.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    Code for Science & Society announcement of 2 December 2021 — primary source for Noble's naming as a founding advisor at DAIR alongside Ciira wa Maina

Source: entities/persons/person-safiya-noble.md — movement-graph pin 914cdfd.