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1 | week | date | lecture | class leads | readings (due by 12pm) | book group | project | other assignments | ||
2 | 1 | Jan 18 | Part I: Class Introduction | Prof. Metaxa | No readings; course logistics. | |||||
3 | Part II: Where We’re Starting | Prof. Metaxa | The limits of the quantitative approach to discrimination (Arvind Narayanan) | |||||||
4 | Techno Racial Capitalism (Leila Hampton) | |||||||||
5 | Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach (Abeba Birhane) | |||||||||
6 | 2 | Jan 25 | Part I: Algorithm Audits | Calvin, Ro | How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives (WIRED) | Due: Intro Survey | ||||
7 | Auditing Algorithms (Danaë Metaxa et al.) - PDF in Canvas | |||||||||
8 | Draft: A Tale of Two Audits (Danaë Metaxa & Deb Raji) | |||||||||
9 | Part II: Empowering Users | Zhaosen, Anusha | The activist dismantling racist police algorithms (MIT Tech Review) | |||||||
10 | “Shadowbanning is not a thing” (Kelley Cotter) | |||||||||
11 | End User Audits (Michelle Lam et al.) | |||||||||
12 | 3 | Feb 1 | Part I: Data Justice | Kepler, Yaaseen | What is data justice? (Linnet Taylor) | Book Groups assigned | Due: Book Group Survey | |||
13 | Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence (Anna Lauren Hoffmann) | |||||||||
14 | Part II: In/Exclusion Guest: Maggie Delano (Swarthmore, Engineering) | (Guest) | Algorithmic Exclusion (Kendra Albert & Maggie Delano) | |||||||
15 | 4 | Feb 8 | Part I: Past and Future | Anusha, Calvin | Toward a Critical Technical Practice (Philip E. Agre) | Due: Book Group semester timeline | ||||
16 | Manufacturing an AI Revolution (Yarden Katz) | |||||||||
17 | Part II: Corporate Power | August, David | What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru (WIRED) | |||||||
18 | Confronting Power and Corporate Capture at the FAccT Conference (Meg Young et al.) | |||||||||
19 | Hacker practice: Moral genres and the cultural articulation of liberalism (Coleman & Golub) | |||||||||
20 | 5 | Feb 15 | Part I: Algorithmic Reparation Guest: Apryl Williams (UMichigan, Comm & Media) | (Guest) | Algorithmic reparation (Jenny L. Davis et al.) | |||||
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22 | Part II: Reparation and Repair | Nidhi, Luis, Prakruthi | Reimagining Social Media Governance (Sarita Shoenebeck et al.) | |||||||
23 | Beyond Fairness (Wonyoung So et al.) | |||||||||
24 | 6 | Feb 22 | Part I: Decoloniality | Princess, Ro | Decolonial AI (Shakir Mohamed et al.) | |||||
25 | On the Grounds of Solutionism (Jay L. Cunningham et al.) | |||||||||
26 | Part II: Decoloniality, cont. | Nidhi, Yaaseen | AI Content Moderation, Racism and (de)Coloniality (Eugenia Siapera) | |||||||
27 | The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research (Abeba Birhane et al.) | |||||||||
28 | 7 | Mar 1 | Part I: LGBTQ Experiences | Princess, Kepler | Queer Ads preprint (in submission) (do not distribute) | Due: Final project proposals | ||||
29 | Queer women’s experiences of patchwork platform governance (Stefanie Duguay et al.) | |||||||||
30 | Restricted modes (Clare Southerton et al.) | |||||||||
31 | Part II: Labor | Luis, August, Prakruthi | Of Techno-Ethics and Techno-Affects (Sareeta Amrute) | |||||||
32 | “Disadvantaged in the American-dominated Internet”: Sex, Work, and Technology (Catherine Barwulor et al) | |||||||||
33 | 8 | Mar 8 | Spring break; no class | |||||||
34 | 9 | Mar 15 | Part I: Final project proposals | NA | No readings; come prepared to share your proposal with the class. | |||||
35 | Part II: Safety/Surveillance | David, Anusha | Augmented borders: Big Data and the ethics of immigration control (Btihaj Ajana) | |||||||
36 | Algorithmic War: Everyday Geographies of the War on Terror (Louise Amoore) | |||||||||
37 | 10 | Mar 22 | Part I: Beyond Bias | Jason, Zhaosen | Machine Bias (ProPublica) | |||||
38 | AI and Blackness: Moving Beyond Bias and Representation (Dancy & Saucier) | |||||||||
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40 | Part II: Segregation | Jason, Prakruthi | Racial Segregation and the Data-Driven Society (Rashida Richardson) | |||||||
41 | Engaging Gentrification as a Social Justice Issue in HCI (Corbett & Loukissas) | |||||||||
42 | 11 | Mar 29 | Part I: Meredith Broussard (NYU, Journalism) | (Guest) | Excerpt from More Than A Glitch (alt link here), Chapter... TBD | |||||
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44 | Part II: Chaz Arnett (Maryland, Law) | (Guest) | From Decarceration to E-Carceration (Chaz Arnett) | |||||||
45 | (Optional) Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance (Donna Cormack & Tahu Kukutai) | |||||||||
46 | 12 | Apr 5 | Final Projects/Papers Check-in | NA | Come prepared to present a check in on your project. | Due: Book Group summary document (Due by 12pm on your group's presentation date) | Due: Final projects/papers check-in | |||
47 | Seven deadly sins of predicting AI? | |||||||||
48 | Book Group 1 Presentation | BG1 | Book Group 1 summary document | |||||||
49 | 13 | Apr 12 | Book Group 2 Presentation | BG2 | Book Group 2 summary document | |||||
50 | Book Group 3 Presentation | BG3 | Book Group 3 summary document | |||||||
51 | 14 | Apr 19 | Book Group 4 Presentation | BG4 | Book Group 4 summary document | |||||
52 | Book Group 5 Presentation | BG5 | Book Group 5 summary document | |||||||
53 | 15 | Apr 26 | No class; office hours in Levine 304 if you want to talk with Danaë about your project! | Due: Book reports | ||||||
54 | 16 | May 3 | No class; finals week | Due: Final papers/projects | Due: Exit survey | |||||
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