Schedule > 10. Solutionism / Technological Benevolence with Natalie Melo
Week 5: Thu, Oct 21
Slides
Readings
- Benjamin, Ruha (2019). Chapter 4. Technological Benevolence. Race After Technology.
- Morozov, Evgeny (April, 2020). The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next level.
Recommended (Optional)
- Jones, Stephanie & Melo, Natalie (2021). We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.
- Madrigal, Alexis (March, 2013). Toward a Complex, Realistic, and Moral Tech Criticism.
- Gladwell, Malcolm (September, 2010). Why the revolution will not be Tweeted. The New Yorker.