Week 1

Lesson 1 Course Introduction

• Course Syllabus.
  • Please read through the syllabus

Lesson 2 Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Winner, L. (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus.
  • Please comment no more than one word or an "mmm" on a quote you resonate with. Feel free to watch this video as a primer to the article

• Engel, J. (2023). Turtle Island Decolonized: Mapping Indigenous Names across “North America”, Decolonial Atlas.
• Bensinger, G. (2020). Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking, The Washington Post.
• Morlin-Yron, S. (2017). What’s the real size of Africa? How Western states used maps to downplay size of continent, CNN.

Lesson 3 Solutionism

• Morozov, E. (2014). Against Solutionism, DLD Conference.

• Morozov, E. (2013). To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist, Public Affairs.
• Brashear, R. (2013). FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, New Day Films.
• Shew, A. (2023). Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, W. W. Norton.

Lesson 4 Who Are "We"?

• Douglass, F. (1852, July 5). “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”.
  • Feel free to watch this video alongside the article

• DuVernay, A. (2016). 13TH, Forward Movement LLC & Kandoo Films.
• Murai, H. (2022). The Big Payback (Season 3, Episode 4), Atlanta (Hulu Series).
• Alexander, T., Baldwin Clark, L., Reinhard, K., & Zatz, N. (2023). CRT Forward: Tracking the Attack on Critical Race Theory, UCLA School of Law, Critical Race Studies Program.

Lesson 5 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

• Joler, V. & Pasquinelli, M. (2020). Nooscope, Fritz AI.
• Data Workers‘ Inquiry, DAIR Institute.
• Veatch, V. (2026). Ghost in the Machine, Independent Lens.
• Precarity Lab (2020). Technoprecarious, MIT Press.
  • Available open access!

Week 2

Lesson 6 Race After Technology

• Benjamin, R. (2019). Race After Technology, Polity.
  • We'll be reading the Introduction chapter, but you're welcome to check out the rest of the book on your own time (it's available via NU Libraries!)

• Hannah-Jones, N. (2019). The Idea of America, The New York Times.
• Vakil, S. & Higgs, J. (2019). It's About Power, Communications of the ACM, 62 (3).
• Keyes, O. (2019). Counting the Countless, Real Life.

Lesson 7 Algorithmic Ecology

• Stop LAPD Spying Coalition & Free Radicals (2020). The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against Algorithms.
• (2026). Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land, Democracy Now.
  • Feel free to also check out Honor the Earth's Data Center Fact Sheet. Note the difference in decibels here

• Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI, Yale University Press.
• Kneese, T. (2025). Turning the Tide: Climate Action In and Against Tech, Data & Society.
• Learning in Places Collaborative (2020). Ethical Deliberation and Decision-Making in Socio-Ecological Systems Framework, Learning in Places.
  • Can find more info about Learning in Places here.

Lesson 8 Design Narratives

• Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design Justice, MIT Press.
  • We'll be reading the chapter on Design Narratives, but you're welcome to check out the rest of the book on your own time (it's open access!). Feel free to check out their zine here

• 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, IEEE Journals & Magazine.
• Kayumova, S. & Sengupta, P. (2022). Beyond representationalism: Heterogeneity as an ethical turn in STEM and computing education, The Learning Sciences in Conversation (pp. 218-234). Routledge..

Lesson 9 Unintended Consequences

• Parvin, N. & Pollock, A. (2020). Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6.
  • Feel free to watch Dr. Nassim Parvin's presentation as a primer to the article

• Human Rights Watch (2023). Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook.
• Crawford, K. & Joler, V. (2023). Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500.

Week 3

Lesson 10 AI Futures

• Gwadabe, A. (2022). African Ancestral AI, Data & Society Research Institute.
  • More stories are available in the series Parables of AI in/from the Majority World.
• Young, L. (2016). In The Robot Skies, Fear and Wonder.
• Harrington, C., Roberts, J., Bray, K., & Diakhate, N. (2021). Building Utopia Guidebook, Building Utopia.

• Klassen, S. & Fiesler, C. (2022). “Run Wild a Little With Your Imagination”: Ethical Speculation in Computing Education with Black Mirror, Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2022), 1.
  • Check out the Internet Rules Lab for Black Mirror Writers Room slides and more.
• Doyle-Burke, D. & Smith, J. (2020). Episode 1: Welcome to Radical AI, The Radical AI Podcast.
• Varon, J., Clarote, & Costanza-Chock, S. The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies, Coding Rights & Design Justice Network.
• Hogan, M., Laser, S., & Ongweso Jr, E. (2026). Predictions: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, Mattering Press, 1.

Lesson 11 Data Capitalism

• Milner, Y., & Traub, A. (2020). Data Capitalism, Data for Black Lives.
  • Full report available here
• Takahashi, A., Wang, S., & Li, C. (2020). Oh, the Places Your Data Will Go!, Free Radicals.
• Tactical Tech (2021). Data Detox x Youth.
  • There are versions available in other languages too

• Lewis, T., Gangadharan, S. P., Saba, M., & Petty, T. (2018). Digital defense playbook: Community power tools for reclaiming data, Our Data Bodies.
• Lee, U. & Petty, T. (2021). From Protecting Ourselves to Taking Care of Each Other, Consentful Tech Project.
• Research Data Alliance International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group (2019). CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, The Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
• (2022). Screening Surveillance.

Lesson 12 Outsider

• Wang, X. (2020). Blockchain Chicken Farm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Feel free to check out Xiaowei Wang's Ted Talk too!

Lesson 13 Insider

• Jones, S. T., melo, n. a., & Shaw, M. S. (2021). We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education [Zine edition].
  • Feel free to check out the full article here, available at NU Libraries. More resources from the zine/article available on this Linktree

Lesson 14 So, What Now?

• Cath, C. & Keyes, O. (2022). Your Thoughts for a Penny? Capital, Complicity, and AI Ethics, Institute of Network Cultures (Theory on Demand Series), 46.