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Whose Cities? The Political Economy of Someone Else’s Smart Cities

April 25, 2023

CS 195, Spring 2023 @ UC Berkeley

Guest Speaker: Khalid Kadir

bCourses slides link

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Attendance Code, 1-minute

https://eecs.link/cs195here

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Attendance closes at the end of lecture.

Please submit your bCourses assignment by ~end of class (5:00pm Pacific).

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Conclusion and Next Steps

April 25, 2023

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LECTURE 14

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Social Implications of Computing Technology

How we most often think of the interplay between technology and society

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Society

Computing Technology

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Social Implications of Computing Technology

How we most often think of the interplay between technology and society

What we want to teach

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Society

Computing Technology

You

  • How do our experiences affect the way we use technology?
  • How do our social values affect the technology we create?
  • Who do we share technology with, and why? Who tells us what to do?

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What we discussed this semester

  • Free Speech
  • Social Connection and Time Well-Spent
  • Privacy
  • Software Risks
  • Capitalism and Silicon Valley, Technosolutionism
  • Memes
  • Government Censorship and Surveillance
  • Algorithmic Bias and Fairness
  • Jobs, Automation, and Labor

Guest speakers:

  • Finding meaning in work, Climate Change
  • Generative AI and Education
  • Web 3.0, Bitcoin, Storytelling
  • Political Economy of Machine Learning

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https://sp23.cs195.org/

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Learn More

ANTHRO 189: Civic Tech and Algorithmic Life (Fall 2023)

DATA C104: Human Contexts and Ethics (Fall 2023)

ENGIN 157AC: Engineering, The Environment, and Society (Spring 2023)

MEDIAST 104D: Privacy in the Digital Age (Fall 2023)

POLECON 159: Digital Technology, Political Economy, and Justice (Fall 2023)

SOC5: Evaluation of Evidence (Fall 2023)

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More course/program/school lists:

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Read More

FroshSoph Seminar, Fall 2023: COMPSCI 39: Technology, Society & Power (Chasins and Yan)

CS H195 reading list: https://sp23.cs195.org/discussion.html

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Link, library

library

website, library

Watch:

Nomadland (website)

Coded Bias (website)

Eyes on the Prize (HBO Max, PBS)

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“Addressing Imbalance,” by Tony Ruth for the 2019 Design in Tech Report

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Thank you!

CS 195, Spring 2023 @ UC Berkeley

Lisa Yan https://eecs.link/cs195

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