Read an article that is not on the syllabus but relates to course topics and provide a short (150 word) write-up. (I need 5 of them.)

Course materials:

Module 1 Content: (Files are in the Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_JKY2t02eg…)

• Slide1.pdf
• star bowker infrastructure.pdf
• Satariano, A. (2019). How the Internet Travels Across Oceans. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/tec…
• Blum, A. (2012). What is the Internet, really? Ted Talks.
• Fan, J. (2018). A New Silk Road. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/a-ne…
• Appel, H., Anand, N., and Gupta, A. (2015). The infrastructure toolbox. Theorizing the contemporary. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/the-infrast…
• Kelty, C. (2017). Evil infrastructures. Theorizing the contemporary, Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/evil-infras…
• Slide2.pdf
• (2019) Schwartz – Untold History of AI: How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/d…
• (2018) Semuels – The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/…
• Commercial Content Moderation Digital Laborers Dirty Work.pdf
• (2019) Vincent – AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebo…
• (2019) The Verge – Google and YouTube moderators speak out

Module 2 Content: (Files are in the Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PSd2-26uM3…)

Module 3 Content: (Files are in the Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LhbB-uAMeq…)

Reading materials are important.

Malone, M. (2017). Who knows me best: Google or Facebook? Intelligencer. New York.pdf

Nissenbaum, H. (2010). Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford Law Books. Introduction.pdf

Palkin, S. (2014). Daniel Solove: Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? The Agenda with Steve Paikin. :

Auxier, B., Rainie. L., Anderson, M., Perrin, A., Kumar, M., Turner, E. (2019). Americans and privacy: Concerned, confused and feeling lack of control over their personal information. Pew Interest and American Life. Overview. : https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/am…

Halpern, S. (2019). The terrifying potential of the 5G network. The New Yorker.pdf halpern-5G.pdf

Poster, M. (1994). The mode of information and postmodernity. In D. Crowley & D. Mitchell (Eds.), Communication theory today (pp. 173–192). Stanford University Press. PosterChapter-1.pdf

Singer, N. (2019). What does California’s new data privacy law mean? Nobody agrees. The New York Times. pdf singer-data-privacy-new-york.pdf

Browne, S. (2017). Surveillance and race online|Simone Browne at MozFest. Mozilla. :

The Ethics Center.(2017). Ethics explained: The panopticon. The Ethics Center. : https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-panopticon-…

Zuboff, S. (2019). Databite No. 118: Shoshana Zuboff. Data & Society Research Institute. :

Crooks, R. (2019). Cat-and-mouse games: Dataveillance and performativity in urban schools. Surveillance & Society, 17(3/4), 484–498. crooks-datveillance-2019.pdf

The Surveillance Studies Center. (2019). Screening surveillance : https://www.sscqueens.org/projects/screening-surve…

Module 4 Content: (Files are in the Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lcDszdSzM4…)

Reading materials are important.

• Whittaker, M. (2020, November 2). Who am I to decide when algorithms should make important decisions? The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/02/opinion/who…
• Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). Feminist Data Manifest-No. https://www.manifestno.com/
• Jung, E.A. (2014). Wages for Facebook. Dissent. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/wages-for-…
• Explore Zines at FreeRads.org, including Takahashi, A., Wang, S., and Li, C. (2020). Oh, the Places Your Data Will Go! Free Radicals https://freerads.org/2020/09/18/oh-the-places-your…
• Explore Million Dollar Hoods. Lytle Hernandez, K., and Dr. Danielle Dupu, D. (2020). Million Dollar Hoods. https://milliondollarhoods.pre.ss.ucla.edu/

Glossary of terms

Sociotechnical research.

Cyber-utopianism.

Cyber-dystopianism.

Social Informatics.

Infrastructure.

Labor.

Hegemony.

Maintenance.

Externalities.

Materiality.

Biopolitics.

Neoliberalism.

Panopticon.

Temporality.

Platform.

Dataveillance.

Surveillance.

Algorithmic bias.

Performativity.

Data justice.

Privacy.

Datafication.

Feminism.

Refusal.

Systematic Oppression.

Power.