Midterm Project: The Life Span of a Technological Object  

Discuss proposals: Topic and Media module-

Loosely based on Kate Crawford’s Anatomy of an AI System , your midterm is a research project in which you create a multi-modular project such as a web site, video essay or podcast that provides a “map of a technological object” of your choice. Trace its production and development as you consider its environmental sustainability, the physical labor and digital labor practices involved in its development, and its ethical relationship to the end user and society at large.

Deliverables include: the media project and a written component 

Homework

Research your object using the following as a guide line. Remember everyone’s object is different therefore some things will make more sense than others.

  • Production/materials/labor/
  • User experience/governance/ethical relationship to user and society/digital rights/historical roots/evolution of object/etc.
  • Sustainability/recycling/right to repair/

Anatomy of an AI System

Continuing with algorithm bias, friction, surveillance, and data collection …

MIT Sloan Experts Series – Renée Richardson Gosline: Human-Centered AI

Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Moral + Code = Code Your Morals

PREPARED TESTIMONY AND STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD
OF Christopher Gilliard, PhD HEARING ON “Banking on Your Data: the Role of Big Data in Financial Services”

A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? Chris Gilliard

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Big Tech and the Crisis of Surveillance Capitalism | Cory Doctorow – Medium in Conversation

1,809 views Mar 9, 2021 Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to Little Brother. He is also the author How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, a nonfiction book from Medium about conspiracies and monopolies. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group.

3:30 – 23:00

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

some articles:

U.S. data privacy laws to enter new era in 2023

The New Rules of Data Privacy Havard Business Review

The raucous battle over Americans’ online privacy is landing on states POLITICO