2021/12/13

Writer Leo Kim Explores How the ‘White Balance’ of TikTok Filters Highlights Issues Around Tools of Representation

“It takes a filter designed for people of colour to make us realize the extent to which most filters aren’t.”
– Writer Leo Kim, exploring TikTok filters not made for white faces. “Tools of representation are neither objective nor inevitable,” writes Kim. “Like all popular technologies, their development is motivated by a variety of economic interests and swayed by assumptions and bias.”
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