Secundary literature

Theme I ¨C Crisis? What Crisis?

March 1: Course Compass

1. Raworth, Kate (2017b). A Doughnut for the Anthropocene: Humanity¡¯s compass in the 21st century. The Lancet Planetary Health, 1(2), e48¨Ce49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30028-1

Secondary literature:

• (a) Leach, M., Raworth, K., & Rockstr?m, J. (2013). Between social and planetary boundaries: Navigating pathways in the safe and just pathway for humanity. In ISSC & UNESCO (Eds.), World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments (pp. 84¨C90). UNESCO. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-en
• (a) Persson, L., Carney Almroth, B. M., Collins, C. D., Cornell, S., de Wit, C. A., Diamond, M. L., Fantke, P., Hassell?v, M., MacLeod, M., Ryberg, M. W., S?gaard J?rgensen, P., Villarrubia-G¨®mez, P., Wang, Z., & Hauschild, M. Z. (2022). Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158
• (a) Raworth, K. (2017a). Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Chelsea Green Publishing.
• (a) Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockstr?m, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., Biggs, R., Carpenter, S. R., Vries, W. de, Wit, C. A. de, Folke, C., Gerten, D., Heinke, J., Mace, G. M., Persson, L. M., Ramanathan, V., Reyers, B., & S?rlin, S. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science, 347(6223), 1259855. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259855

Audio:

• Studio 2 (2021) Greske myter forklarer livet v?rt p? internett. https://radio.nrk.no/podkast/studio_2/sesong/202104/l_80d46664-e840-426f-9466-64e840326f74

Theme II ¨C THEORIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

March 3: Understanding technology

2. Franklin, Ursala (1990). The Real World of Technology (Chapter 1, revised edition). Toronto: Anansi [26 pages].

Audio:

Franklin¡¯s chapter isalso available as original audio presentation:  https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/14195315

Secondary literature:

• (a) Feenberg, Andrew (2010). The Ten Paradoxes of Technology. Techne? 14:1. https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=techne&id=techne_200_0014_0001_0003_0015
• (a) Verbeek, P.-P. (2006). Materializing Morality Design Ethics and Technological Mediation. Science, Technology & Human Values, 31(3), 361¨C380. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243905285847
• (a) Winner, Langdon (1980). Do artifacts have politics? Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652

Video:

• Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2017). Technological Mediation: https://youtu.be/FvhrLwBNbvU

March 7: Critical, feminist, and post-colonial theories of technology

3. Ansari, Ahmad (2019). Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an ontological turn in design research and practice. In XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 26(2): 16-19.

Secondary literature:

Theory:

• (a) Feng, Patrick & Andrew Feenberg (2008). Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Realization of Design Possibilities. In P.E. Vermaas et al. (eds) Philosphy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture. Dordrecht: Springer , pp. 105-118 (14 pp).
• (a) Quan-Haase, A. (2015). Technology & Society: social networks, power, and inequality (chapter 3). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf in document folder)

Other:

• (a) Bell, S. E. , Daggett, C. & Labuski, C. (2020). Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough. Energy Research & Social Science 68. Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962030133X
• (a) Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Feminism and Constructivism: Do artifacts have gender? In Science, technology, & Human Values, 20(3): 332-351. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652
• (a) Birhane, A., & Guest, O. (2020). Towards decolonising computational sciences. ArXiv:2009.14258 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14258
• (a) Brock, Andr¨¦ (2018). Critical technocultural discourse analysis
• (a) Cruz, C.C. Decolonizing Philosophy of Technology: Learning from Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Decolonial Technical Design. Philos. Technol. 34, 1847¨C1881 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00489-w
• (a) Mohamed, S., Png, MT. & Isaac, W. Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence. Philos. Technol. 33, 659¨C684 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00405-8
• (a) Timcke, S. (2020). Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3551467
• (a) van der Velden, M. (2013). Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge. In: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 29:4, 308-316, online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2013.765768

Blogposts:

• o Fjellheim, E.M. & Carl, F. (2020). ¡®Green¡¯ colonialism is ruining Indigenous lives in Norway. Aljazeera Online: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/8/1/green-colonialism-is-ruining-indigenous-lives-in-norway
• o Kuhn, G. (2021). S¨¢pmi: Resisting Green Colonialism. Counterpunch, Sept. 8, 2021. Online: https://blog.pmpress.org/2021/09/21/sapmi-resisting-green-colonialism/

Video

• o Big Brother in 1984 Apple Macintosh Ad was Steve Jobs! https://rockcheetah.com/blog/humor/big-brother-1984-apple-macintosh-ad-steve-jobs/

• o Elva skal leve ¨C 2011: https://tv.nrk.no/program/DNPR64001010

Podcast:

Uncovering the Legacies of Nordic Colonialism with Lill-Ann K?rber https://nordics.info/show/artikel/uncovering-the-legacies-of-nordic-colonialism-with-lill-ann-koerber-1

March 8: Design Justice

4. Constanza-Chock, Sasha (2018). Design Justice: towards an intersectional feminist framework for design theory and practice. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society [14 pp].

Seconday literature:

On script:

• (a) Akrich, Madeleine (1997). The De-Scription of Technical Objects. In Bijker, W. E. and Law, J. (eds), Shaping Technology/Building Society. Studies in sociotechnical change. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 205-224.Online: https://pedropeixotoferreira.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/akrich-the-de-scription-of-technical-objects.pdf
• Future Learn (n.d.). What can we learn from Latour? [Actor network Theory] Online: https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/philosophy-of-technology/0/steps/26326
• (a) Velden, M. van der, & M?rtberg, C. (2011). Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design. Science, Technology, & Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243911401632

On Cui Bono:

• (a) Star, S. L. (1990). Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: On being Allergic to Onions. The Sociological Review, 38(1_suppl), 26¨C56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1990.tb03347.x

Other:

• (a) Buolamwini, J., & Gebru, T. (2018). Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classi?cation. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 81:1¨C15, 2018 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
• (a) Charlotte Smith, R., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Paula Kambunga, A., & Krishnamurthy, S. (2020). Decolonizing Participatory Design: Memory Making in Namibia. Proceedings of the 16^th Participatory Design Conference 2020 ¨C Participation(s) Otherwise ¨C Volume 1, 96¨C106. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385021
• (a) Shivers-McNair, A., Gonzales, L., & Zhyvotovska, T. (2019). An Intersectional Technofeminist Framework for Community-Driven Technology Innovation. Computers and Composition, 51, 43¨C54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2018.11.005
• (a) Spiel, K. (2021). Why are they all obsessed with Gender?; (Non)binary Navigations through Technological Infrastructures. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (pp. 478¨C494). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462033

Video

• Crenshaw, Kimberl¨¦ (2016). The urgency of intersectionality. https://youtu.be/akOe5-UsQ2o [18 mins]

Websites

• Just Tech: https://just-tech.ssrc.org/
• Gender Pay Gap Bot: https://twitter.com/PayGapApp

Theme II ¨C AUTOMATION + DIGITALISATION

March 10: Sustainable AI

Mini-seminar on Sustainable AI

March 14: AI Futures I

5. D¡¯Ignazio, Cathrine and Lauren Klein (2020). Data Feminism. Cambridge: The MIT Press (Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism (20 pp). Available online at https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/frfa9szd/release/3

March 15: AI Futures II

6. Floridi, L., Cowls, J., Beltrametti, M. et al. AI4People¡ªAn Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations. Minds & Machines 28, 689¨C707 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-018-9482-5

Secondary literature:

• Coeckelbergh, M., & Loh, J. (2020). Transformations of Responsibility in the Age of Automation: Being Answerable to Human and Non-Human Others. In B. Beck & M. K¨¹hler (Eds.), Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility (Vol. 1, pp. 7¨C22). J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04896-7_2
• (a) Hagendorff, T. Blind spots in AI ethics. AI Ethics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00122-8
• (a) Kiran, Asle H., Oudshoor, Nelly & Peter-Paul Verbeek (2015). Beyond checklists: towards an ethical-constructive technology assessment. In Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2(1) (15 pp).
• (a) Martin, Kirsten (2019). Ethical Implications and Accountability of Algorithms. In Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3921-3
• (a) Sharkey, Noel (2014). Towards a principle for the human supervisory control of robot weapons. In: Politica & Societ¨¤, 2 (14 pp)
• (a) Timcke, S. (2020). Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3551467
• (a) Wilson, Christopher and Maja van der Velden (2022). Sustainable AI: An integrated model to guide public sector decision-making. In Technology in Society.68: 101926 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101926

Podcast:

Russel, Stuart (2021). Living with Artificial Intelligence. The Reith Lectures, part 4. [58 mins] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012q21

March 17: The dark side of digitalisation

7. Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah, Scherer, A. G., Munro, I., & Whelan, G. (2021). Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda. Organization, 28(1), 8¨C25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420968184

Secondary literature:

• (a) Ricaurte, P. (2019). Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance. Television & New Media, 20(4), 350¨C365. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419831640
• (a) Shilton, Katie (2014). This is an Intervention: Foregrounding and Operationalizing Ethics During Technology Design. In Pimple, Kenneth D. (ed.) Emerging Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies (PICT): Ethical Challenges, Opportunities and Safeguards. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 177-192 (25 pp).

Website:

• Geneva Environment Network (2021). Data, Digital technology, and the Environment. Online: https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/data-digital-technology-and-the-environment/
• ICT Works (2020). Digital Technologies Are Part of the Climate Change Problem. Online: https://www.ictworks.org/digital-technologies-climate-change-problem/#.X1hLyXlKiUk

• o The dark side of digitalization ¨C and how to fix it. Online: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/dark-side-digitalization/

Theme III ¨C SUSTAINABILITY & TECHNOLOGY DESIGN

21 March: Technofixes

8. Boehnert, Joanne (2018). Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene. London: Bloomsbury (Chapter 14. The technofix, 10 pp). (pdf will be made available)

Secondary literature:

• (a) Bell, S. E. , Daggett, C. & Labuski, C. (2020). Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough. Energy Research & Social Science 68. Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962030133X
• McKinnen, B. (2022). In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things. In The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things
• (a) Ryan, M., Antoniou, J., Brooks, L., Jiya, T., Macnish, K., & Stahl, B. (2019, August 28). Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs. https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101
• (a) Dunlap, A. (2018). The ¡®solution¡¯is now the ¡®problem:¡¯wind energy, colonisation and the ¡®genocide-ecocide nexus¡¯ in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. In The International Journal of Human Rights.
• (a) Dunlap, A. & Marin, D. (2022). Comparing coal and ¡®transition materials¡¯? Overlooking complexity, flattening reality and ignoring capitalism. In Energy Research & Social Science.
• (a) Sovacool, B. K., & Dunlap, A. (2022). Anarchy, war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era. In Energy Research & Social Science.
• (a) Pierce, J. (2012). Undesigning technology: considering the negation of design by design. In CHI¡¯12: Proceedings of the SIHCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2012, pp. 957-966 (10 pp).

Documentary:

The Green Lie (2017): https://youtu.be/HvoqCGJ5rpQ

22 March: Regenerative Sustainability I

9. Lenz, Sara (2021). Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses. In Social Science Information, 60(2): 188-208. Online: https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184211012179

Secondary literature:

• (a) The opportunities and risks of digitalisation for sustainable development: a systemic perspective | GAIA 30/1 (2021): 23 ¨C 28
• (a) Lucivero, F. (2020). Big Data, Big Waste? A Reflection on the Environmental Sustainability of Big Data Initiatives. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(2), 1009¨C1030. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00171-7
• (a) Sacco, P., Gargano, E. R., & Cornella, A. (2021). Sustainable Digitalization: A Systematic Literature Review to Identify How to Make Digitalization More Sustainable. In Y. Borgianni, S. Brad, D. Cavallucci, & P. Livotov (Eds.), Creative Solutions for a Sustainable Development (pp. 14¨C29). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86614-3_2
• (a) Renn, O., Beier, G., & Schweizer, P.-J. (2021). The opportunities and risks of digitalisation for sustainable development: A systemic perspective. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 30, 23¨C28. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.1.6

24 March: Regenerative Sustainability II

10. Gibbons, L. V. (2020). Regenerative¡ªThe New Sustainable? Sustainability, 12(13), 5483. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135483

Secondary literature:

• (a) Hutchins, Giles & Laura Storm (2019). Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21 st century organizations (chapter 1). Online: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3db2437c9327e0771e2ed0/t/5e8b1eb6e37ead7fc59c445c/1586175888858/Regenerative+Leadership+Book_Chapter+1.pdf
• (a) Reed, B. (2007). Shifting from ¡®sustainability¡¯ to regeneration. Building Research & Information, 35(6), 674¨C680. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210701475753

Online presentations:

• o Reed, Bill (2011). From Sustainability through Regeneration: Whole and Living System Design. Online: https://youtu.be/BFzEI1rZG_U
• o Wahl, Daniel (2018). Designing for Regeneration & Planetary Health. Online:  https://youtu.be/drY0L-wAop8

Blog posts:

• o Jankel, N. S. (2021, May 27). Regenerative Tech: Slow Down & Mend Things. Switch On. https://medium.com/switch-on/regenerative-tech-slow-down-mend-things-fdfc04eb6cc7
• o Siegel, R. P. (2020). Regenerative products just might save the planet ¨C and the economy. Strategy+business. Retrieved September 12, 2021, from http://www.strategy-business.com/article/Regenerative-products-just-might-save-the-planet-and-the-economy