Readings for Data in Social Context Workshop, June 2019

Shoshana Zuboff, @shoshanazuboff, https://shoshanazuboff.com/

Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (link)

Articles:

"The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, May 3, 2016 (link)

“Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization.” Journal of Information Technology (2015), 30, 75-89. (link)

Cathy O’Neil, @mathbabedotorg, https://mathbabe.org/

Book: Weapons of Math Destruction (link)

Articles:

“Yes, Government Should Regulate Automated Decision-Making,” Bloomberg, April 17, 2019 (link)

“Amazon Can’t Fix Facial Recognition,” Bloomberg, January 24, 2019 (link)

“Want to See Your Dystopian Future? Look at China,” Bloomberg, November 17, 2018 (link)

“Amazon’s Gender-Biased Algorithm is Not Alone,” Bloomberg, October 16, 2018 (link)

Safiya Noble, @safiyanoble, https://safiyaunoble.com/

Book: Algorithms of Oppression (link)

Articles:

“Google Search: Hyper-visibility as a Means of Rendering Black Women and Girls Invisible,” In/Visible Culture, October 29, 2013 (link)

“Google and the Misinformed Public,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2017 (link)

Steven Strogatz, @stevenstrogatz, http://www.stevenstrogatz.com/

Book: Infinite Powers (link)

Articles:

Infinite Powers Introduction (link)

“Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern,” New York Times, March 14, 2019 (link)

“One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine,” New York Times., December 26, 2018 (link)

“Writing About Math for the Perplexed and Traumatized,” Notices of the AMS, 61/3 (March 2014) (link)

Virginia Eubanks, @poptechworks, https://virginia-eubanks.com/

Book: Automating Inequality (link)

Articles:

“Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse,” Scientific American November 2018 (link)

“The Digital Poorhouse,” Harper’s, January 2018 (link)

Frank Pasquale, @frankpasquale, http://www.frankpasquale.com/

Book: The Black Box Society (link)

Articles:

“Digital Star Chamber,” Aeon.com, August 18, 2015 (link)

"The Dark Market for Personal Data," New York Times, October 16, 2014 (link)

Lilly Irani, @gleemie , https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/

Articles:

“Hype, Profit, Labor, and Agency in the Shadows of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” What’s at Stake in a 4th Industrial Revolution?” March 29, 2018 (link)

“Stories We Tell About Labor: Turkopticon and the Trouble with ‘Design’,” with M. Six Silberman, UC San Diego, May 1, 2016 (link)

Mary Gray, @marylgray, https://marylgray.org/bio/on-demand/

Book: Ghost Work, with Siddharth Suri (link)

Articles:

“The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain,” Harvard Business Review, January 9, 2017 (link)

“The hidden global workforce that is still fighting for an eight-hour day,” Washington Post, May 1, 2019 (link)

Kate Crawford, @katecrawford, https://www.katecrawford.net/

Articles:

“Ten Simple Rules for Responsible Big Data Research,” with co-authors, PLOS Computational Biology, March 30, 2017 (link)

“Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide,” with Jacob Metcalf, Big Data & Society (Jan June 2016), pp. 1-4 (link)

“The Anxieties of Big Data,” The New Inquiry May 30, 2014 (link)

danah boyd, @zephoria, https://www.danah.org/

“Situating Methods in the Magic of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence,” with M. C. Elish, Communications Monograph, 2017 (link)

“Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily be Exploited,” with Michael Golebiewski, Data & Society, May 2018 (link)

“Predictive Policing,” with Sarah Brayne and Alex Rosemblat, Data & Society, 2015 (link)

Siva Vaidhyananthan, @sivavaid, https://mediastudies.virginia.edu/people/sv2r

Book: Antisocial Media (link)

Articles:

“Regulating Facebook will be one of the greatest challenges in human history,” The Guardian, April 28, 2019 (link)

“Violating our privacy is in Facebook’s DNA,” The Guardian, December 20, 2018 (link)

Zeynep Tufekci, @zeynep, http://technosociology.org/

Book: Twitter and Tear Gas (link)

Articles:

“Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again,” New York Times, April 21, 2019 (link)

“Russian Meddling is the Symptom, Not the Disease,” New York Times, October 3, 2018 (link)

“Facebook’s Surveillance Machine,” New York Times, March 19, 2018 (link)

“The Latest Data Privacy Debacle,” New York Times, January 20, 2018 (link)

Jordan Ellenberg, @jsellenberg, http://www.jordanellenberg.com/writings/

Book: How Not to be Wrong. The Power of Mathematical Thinking (link)

Articles:

“The Supreme Court’s Math Problem,” Slate, March 29, 2019 (link)

“Hot Hands in Basketball are Real,” Slate, October 26, 2015 (link)

Additional Readings (for all to complete):

Kathy Pham, "Want to fix big tech? Change what classes are required for a computer science degree," Fast Company May 28, 2019 (link)

Data Science for Undergraduates, Final Report from the National Academies, 2018 (link)