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  • 4/21/2024

    Apryl Williams to Keynote for the Global Digital Intimacies Conference

    June 27 + 28 | A hybrid conference convened at the University of Amsterdam. Digitization is transforming intimate practices around…

  • 4/21/2024

    How Dating Sites Automate Racism

    Apryl Williams opened a Tinder account in 2013 and began wondering about the algorithms used by dating apps, how they selected…

  • 2/15/2024

    Privacy Pitfalls and Racial Biases in Online Dating with Apryl Williams and *Privacy Not Included

    Hundreds of millions of people use dating apps to find love, but what goes on behind the screens to prompt…

  • 2/14/2024

    When Love and the Algorithm Don’t Mix

    “Online dating as a black woman is a unique experience. Black women are often over-targeted by those seeking exoticism, yet we are told…

  • 2/5/2024

    Not My Type Book Launch

    Please join us at 2:30 PM EST on Thursday, March 7, 2024, for this very special book talk, hosted by…

  • 12/14/2023

    Publishers Weekly Review

    “Williams, a professor of communications and digital studies at the University of Michigan, debuts with a troubling investigation of structural…

  • 11/7/2023

    Mozilla Explains: Is Your Dating App Racist?

    Apryl Williams explains why racial bias plays an integral role in how people are matched on dating apps

  • 10/12/2023

    “Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating”

    University of Michigan DSI Book Talk

  • 10/12/2023

    Swipe Wrongs: Sexual Racism in Dating Apps and Dating Culture

    Utah State University