{"id":371,"date":"2021-10-28T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/?p=371"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:34:04","slug":"how-to-overcome-zooms-algorithmic-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/resources\/technology\/zoom\/how-to-overcome-zooms-algorithmic-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Zoom\u2019s algorithmic bias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever wondered what determines the arrangement of participant thumbnails in Zoom\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/201362323-Changing-the-video-layout-Speaker-view-and-Gallery-view-#h_ac952845-ed43-4884-8263-4356f98e26f3\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery View<\/a>? Zoom&#8217;s algorithm places the most dominant speakers more prominently, potentially reinforcing inequities in speaking time. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tll.mit.edu\/how-to-overcome-zooms-algorithmic-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> discusses Zoom&#8217;s algorithm in more detail and describes some simple steps you can take to counteract Zoom&#8217;s bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom&#8217;s algorithm places the most dominant speakers more prominently, potentially reinforcing inequities in speaking time. This article discusses Zoom&#8217;s algorithm in more detail and describes some simple steps you can take to counteract Zoom&#8217;s bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zoom","tag-equity","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/resilient-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}