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1 | week | date | lecture | class leads | readings (due by 12pm) | book group | project | other assignments |
2 | 1 | Jan 24 | none; class begins next week | |||||
3 | 2 | Jan 31 | class introduction // here to where? | DM | Part 1: Course logistics Part 2: The limits of the quantitative approach to discrimination (Arvind Narayanan) Techno Racial Capitalism (Leila Hampton) Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach (Abeba Birhane) | Due Friday, Feb 2: Intro Survey | ||
4 | 3 | Feb 7 | bias basics // race | Part 1: Renisa & Manas Part 2: Kaily & CJ | Part 1: Gender Shades (Buolamwini & Gebru) More Than A Glitch - Chapter 3 (Meredith Broussard) Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control (Whittaker) Part 2: Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet (Tressie MacMillan Cottom) The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research (Abeba Birhane et al.) | |||
5 | 4 | Feb 14 | inclusion // gentrification | Part 1: Ankita & Jina Part 2: Frida & Zoey | Part 1: What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru (WIRED) On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models be Too Big? (Bender et al) Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence (Hoffman) Part 2: Engaging Gentrification as a Social Justice Issue in HCI (Corbett & Loukissas) Racial Segregation and the Data-Driven Society (Rashida Richardson) Beyond Fairness: Reparative Algorithms to Address Historical Injustices of Housing Discrimination in the US (So et al) | Due: Book Group Preferences Survey | ||
6 | 5 | Feb 21 | labor // automation | Part 1: Andres & Aviel Part 2: Rahul, Sahith, & Ankith | Part 1: Civil Rights Standards for 21st Century Employment Selection Procedures (CDT) What it’s really like to be one of the ghost workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (Gray) Part 2: Street-Level Algorithms: A Theory at the Gaps Between Policy and Decisions (Alkhatib & Bernstein) Mechanized Significance and Machine Learning (Mendon-Plasek) Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI (Agre) | Book Groups Assigned | ||
7 | 6 | Feb 28 | governance | Part 1: Neil, Stephanie, & Riya Part 2: Wenxi, Kyrie, & Khushi | Part 1: AI Content Moderation, Racism, and (de)Coloniality (Siapera) Queer women’s experiences of patchwork platform governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine (Duguay et al) Part 2: Reimagining Social Media Governance: Harm, Accountability, and Repair (Shoenebeck & Blackwell) Law and Technology: The End of the Generative Internet (Zittrain) “Shadowbanning is not a thing”: black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms (Cotter) | Due: Book Group Semester Timeline | Due: Final Project Proposals | |
8 | 7 | Mar 6 | spring break; no class | |||||
9 | 8 | Mar 13 | sexuality // surveillance | Part 1: Julianna, Renisa, & CJ Part 2: Andres, Manas, & Jina | Part 1: “Disadvantaged in the American-dominated Internet”: Sex, Work, and Technology (Barwulor et al) Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship (Southerton) Algorithmic Exclusion (Albert & Delano) “The Word Real Is No Longer Real”: Deepfakes, Gender, and the Challenges of AI-Altered Video (Wagner & Blewer) (Optional) The Trans Sporter Room Ep 80 Julia Serano - YouTube video Part 2: Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance (Cormack & Kukutai) Data Trafficking and the International Risks of Surveillance Capitalism: The Case of Grindr and China (Kokas) When Transgender Travelers Walk Into Scanners, Invasive Searches Sometimes Wait on the Other Side (ProPublica) (Optional) TSA, not calling trans bodies “anomalies” anymore isn’t enough (Avi Z) | Due: Book Group Check-in #1 | ||
10 | 9 | Mar 20 | e-carceration // war | Part 1: Frida & Riya Part 2: Kaily, Zoey, & Neil | Part 1: From Decarceration to E-Carceration (Chaz Arnett) Ring Reveals They Give Videos to Police Without User Consent or a Warrant (EFF) Augmented borders: Big Data and the ethics of immigration control (Btihaj Ajana) The activist dismantling racist police algorithms (Ryan-Mosley & Strong) Part 2: Algorithmic War: Everyday Geographies of the War on Terror (Louise Amoore) Israel’s AI-powered ‘mass assassination factory’ (AlJazeera) Automating warfare: Lessons learned from the drones (Sharkey) | Due: Final Project Check-in #1 | Due: Mid-Sem Check-in | |
11 | 10 | Mar 27 | auditing (class on zoom!) | Part 2: Sahith, Wenxi, & Stephanie | Part 1: Guest Speaker, Briana Vecchione (Data & Society) Part 2: Algorithmic Auditing and Social Justice: Lessons from the History of Audit Studies (Vecchione et al) AI auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability (Birhane et al) | Due: Book Group Check-in #2 | ||
12 | 11 | Apr 3 | futures | Part 1: Ankita, Kyrie, & Julianna Part 2: Aviel, Ankith, Khushi, & Rahul | Part 1: Sociotechnical Audits: Broadening the Algorithm Auditing Lens to Investigate Targeted Advertising (Lam et al) Everyday Algorithm Auditing: Understanding the Power of Everyday Users in Surfacing Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors (Shen et al) Part 2: Manufacturing an AI Revolution (Katz) On the Grounds of Solutionism: Ontologies of Blackness and HCI (Cunningham et al) Algorithmic reparation (Jenny L. Davis et al.) Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence (Mohamed et al) | Due: Final Project Check-in #2 | ||
13 | 12 | Apr 10 | Book Group #1 Presentation Book Group #6 Presentation | Groups 1 & 6 | Presentations | Due: Book Group Summary Document (Due by 12pm on your presentation date) | ||
14 | 13 | Apr 17 | Book Group #3 Presentation Book Group #4 Presentation | Groups 3 & 4 | Presentations | Due: Final Project Check-in #3 | ||
15 | 14 | Apr 24 | Book Group #2 Presentation Book Group #6 Presentation | Groups 2 & 6 | Presentations | |||
16 | 15 | May 1 | Final Project Presentations | Everyone | Presentations | Due May 5 EOD: Final Project/Paper | Due: Exit Survey | |
17 | 16 | May 8 | finals; no class | |||||
18 | 17 | May 15 | finals; no class |