Using Public Video Cameras to Detect Racial Distancing on City Streets
5 May 2021
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Speaker
Dr Melissa Sands
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Merced
Do people consciously or unconsciously avoid others of certain races on city streets? Is casual "everyday racism" present just on a simple walk in the neighborhood?
In this seminar Dr Melissa Sands explored how, using publicly-available traffic camera feeds in combination with a real-world field experiment, pedestrians behave in the presence of other racial groups and discovered an implicit bias against certain people of colour.
15:00 BST - Welcome Introduction
Dr. Erica Thompson, Senior Policy Fellow, LSE Data Science Institute
Setting the scene: Brief intro to the speaker and her research
15:05 BST - Seminar Session
Dr. Melissa Sands, University of California, Merced
"Seeing Racial Avoidance on City Streets"
15:45 BST - Research Discussion
Q&A / Discussion of the research
16:00 BST - Announcement
Upcoming seminar in the series and other announcements
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