Do happy that my @NewBooksNetwork interview with @schock is up. Listen as we talk about their important book Design Justice from @mitpress https://t.co/iKwI1Wy1n7
DESIGN JUSTICE (@mitpress) builds the case for designers and researchers to make the communities they impact co-equal partners in the products, services, and organizations. 🎙️ Learn more as @schock discusses the book with @JasmineMcNealy on the podcast ↙️
https://t.co/VWeCSDi8DX
Drawing on interviews, participant observation and deep readings of texts, HACKING DIVERSITY (@PrincetonUPress) shows how the problem-solving ethos of #OpenTech fails to meet the challenge of structural social problems. @scrivenix joins @JasmineMcNealy 👇
https://t.co/Gq4WA4X5Sw
On @NewBooksNetwork, Christina-Dunbar Hester investigates how the world of open technology is considering the question of diversity and inclusion. https://t.co/kLH0Lea0sQ
What is the culture of the tech industry? In THE CULTURE of WOMEN in TECH: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (@EmeraldIKM), @thatdrmaz shows the ongoing inequalities faced by women in the IT industry. Hardey is @DrDaveOBrien guest on the podcast. Listen in!
https://t.co/TRkFuumvrC
How does technology shape music? @pmharkins, author of DIGITAL SAMPLING (@Routledge_MandC) explains the impact of technologies--such as the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, programming languages, and studio practices--on artists and producers.🎙️👂👇
https://t.co/fAZoaxgqDN
Can we become attached to inanimate objects?
Listen in as @drkatedevlin, author of TURNED ON: Science, Sex and Robots (@BloomsburyAcad), discusses the nexus of desire, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies with @JohnDanaher on the podcast👇
https://t.co/lQEa2eJfOU
Happy to have gotten to speak with @kanarinka & @laurenfklein about their new book Data Feminism, available from @mitpress, for @NewBooksNetwork https://t.co/rdVLSgc1Ow
The "datafication" of more and more aspects of our lives requires analysis of the systems of power surrounding it. In DATA FEMINISM (@mitpress), @laurenfklein and @kanarinka use intersectional feminism to rethink #DataEthics. They join @JasmineMcNealy↙️
https://t.co/nmIBXuKQs9
What happens when automated systems―not humans―control which neighborhoods get policed, which families get needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud?
Listen in as @PopTechWorks discusses AUTOMATING INEQUALITY (@StMartinsPress) w/@JohnDanaher ↙️
https://t.co/KDFGyTniIU
How can we make sense of the intensification of the #NetNeutrality controversy, the advocacy and protests, and the political and corporate wrangling involved? 🎙️@ranewm, author of THE PARADOXES OF NETWORK NEUTRALITIES (@mitpress), joins @JasmineMcNealy ↙️
https://t.co/a9IHSNH5iV
"Smart cities" have captured the imaginations of policymakers, scholars and urbanites. But what are the drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data? @benzevgreen discusses THE SMART ENOUGH CITY (@mitpress) w/@JasmineMcNealy👇
https://t.co/v3rlSbBaaR
James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan's THE ETHICS of SPACE EXPLORATION (@springerpub) promotes a more robust and theoretically informed approach to the ethical dimension of discussions on space and society. Co-editor James Schwartz joins @JohnDanaher ⤵️
https://t.co/gwaynl1MRH
At 60 years, Vanguard 1 is the oldest artificial satellite 🛰️ in space.
Listen in as Angelina Callahan, author of NASA in the WORLD (@PalgraveSTS), joins @ExplorationBlog to fill us in on the history the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project.🎧↙️
https://t.co/TMRMapXIQE
In a new book, ON BICYCLES (@ColumbiaUP), @EvanFriss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics.
Learn more as Friss joins @KaraSchlichting to fill us in on his new urban #CyclingHistory👇
https://t.co/RkOxIwc7Ku
Digitization ins't inevitable and it doesn't lead to improvements. THE QUANTIFIED SELF in PRECARITY (@Routledge_Socio) demonstrates how workplace quantification is increasing rates of subjective and objective precarity. @phoebemoore joins @JohnDanaher ⤵️
https://t.co/QXpgGbSUth
Craig Murphy and @yatesmemo join @mikey_mcgovern to talk about their book on the social life of standards, ENGINEERING RULES (@JHUPress). Learn more about the practice of private, voluntary standard setting and the movement of engineers who started it ↙️
https://t.co/svplmx2cmw
How are markets made?
🎙️@DrDaveOBrien has @pardoguerra on the #podcast to discuss AUTOMATING FINANCE (@CUPAcademic), a detailed theoretical engagement with the personalities and technological changes underpinning the modern system of automated finance.
https://t.co/PKsKKQiJK6