Week 1

Lesson 1 Course Introduction

• Course Syllabus.
  • Please read through the syllabus

Lesson 2 Tech Ethics

• Williams, R., Smarr, S., Prioleau, D., & Gilbert, J. E. (2022). Oh No, Not Another Trolley! On the Need for a Co-Liberative Consciousness in CS Pedagogy (Intro only), IEEE Journals & Magazine.

• Bietti, E. (2021). (PAPER) From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing: A View on Tech Ethics from Within Moral Philosophy, SSRN Electronic Journal.
• Bietti, E. (2021). (VIDEO) From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing: A View on Tech Ethics from Within Moral Philosophy, Centre for Ethics.

Week 2

Lesson 3 Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Winner, L. (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus.
  • Feel free to watch this video as a primer (but not substitute!) to the article

Lesson 4 "Unintended Consequences"

• Fiesler, C. (2020). A tweet thread on "Unintended Consequences", Twitter.
  • After reading the tweet thread above, explore one of the related articles below.

• Notopoulos, K. (2019). Google Drive Has A Loophole That Allows Harassment, Buzzfeed News.
• Jiang, A. (2019). Voice-based Communities and Why It’s So Hard To Moderate Them, Medium.
• Garrett, N. (2020). Natalie Garrett on Ethical Debt and Ethics Education, All Tech Is Human.
• Chávez, V. C. (2022). Early thoughts on today’s violence, Medium.

Week 3

Lesson 5 Intro to CRT

• Delgado, R. & Stefancic, J. (2017). Hallmark Crtical Race Theory Themes, Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction.
  • Content Warning: Harmful language to racialized peoples. When discussing ideas and topics from this reading, please do not use race or ethnicity as a noun, it is an adjective. And do not use the word 'Esk*m*' to refer to Inuit Peoples. As you read through this chapter, consider what are some of the unintended (or perhaps unanticipated) consequences of having this kind of harmful language in a book about race.
• Yosso, T. J. (2006). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth, Race Ethnicity and Education.

Lesson 6 Racial Capitalism

• Hannah-Jones, N. (2023). Capitalism (Episode 4), The 1619 Project (Hulu Series).
  • We recognize not everyone may have access to Hulu and as such have uploaded a version to Canvas. Also, this could be a great opportunity to come together (covid-safely, of course) with your learning pods and watch together in person!

Week 4

Lesson 7 Race After Technology

• Benjamin, R. (2019). Introduction, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.

Lesson 8 Algorithms of Oppression

• Noble, S. U. (2018). Introduction, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
• Buolamwini, J. (2018). AI, Ain't I a Woman?.

Week 5

Lesson 9 Facial Recognition

• Kantayya, S. (2020). Coded Bias, Netflix.
  • We recognize not everyone may have access to Netflix and as such have uploaded a version to Canvas. Also, this could be a great opportunity to come together (covid-safely, of course) with your learning pods and watch together in person!
• Keyes, O. (2019). Counting the Countless, Real Life Magazine.
• Teachable Machine Tutorial, Google.
  • Especially if you are unfamiliar with Machine Learning, check out this tutorial before class. We'll be doing an in-class activity based on Teachable Machine.

Week 6

Lesson 10 Data Capitalism

• Takahashi, A., Wang, S., & Li, C. (2020). Oh, the Places Your Data Will Go!, Free Radicals.
• Milner, Y., & Traub, A. (2020). Data Capitalism, Data for Black Lives.
  • No need to download the full report. Just check out the info on the website.

Lesson 11 Taking Back Control

• Browne, S. (2020). The Feds Are Watching: A History of Resisting Anti-Black Surveillance, Abolition for the People Series.
• Research Data Alliance International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group (2019). CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, The Global Indigenous Data Alliance.

Week 7

Lesson 12 Land Relations

• Kimmerer, R. W. (2015). The Sacred and the Superfund, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.

Lesson 13 CS Extractions

• Crawford, K. (2021). Earth, The Atlas of AI.
  • Important to note here the missing citations in Crawford's work from several Data & Society lab members who researched and brought up ideas from the book prior to Crawford's writing. See some details here.

Week 8

Lesson 14 Reimagining CS Education

• Jones, S. T. & melo, n. a. (2021). We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education, Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.
  • You can read the paper on the link as we shared it, or click the 'Download PDF' button on the top right.

Lesson 15 Reimagining the Internet

• Bailey, M. (2021). An Ethical Internet?, Just Tech.

Week 9

Lesson 16 Solutionism

• Morozov, E. (2014). Against Solutionism, DLD Conference.
• Future of Life Institute (2023). Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter, Future of Life Institute.
  • You do not need to sign the letter, just read and think about it in conversation with solutionism

Lesson 17 Choose your own adventure

• Choose one (or more) resource(s) to explore from our resource page.

Week 10

Lesson 18 Final Presentations

• Please complete the course CTEC.

Week 11