Obligatory Literature
Book
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2013). Technology and Society: Social Networks, Work, and Inequality. OUP: Canada (304 pp).
Articles and Book Chapters
Arkin (2013). Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-Combattant
de Laet, Marianne and Annemarie Mol (2000). The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology. In Social Studies of Science, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 225–263.
Ess, Charles (2010). "Digital media Ethics: Overview, Framework, Resources". In Charles Ess, Digital Media Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 167-225. (pdf per email)
Fuchs, Christian (2013). Theorising and analysing digital labour: From global value chaines to modes of production. In: The Political Economy of Communication, 2(1), 3-27.
Gehl, Robert W. (2013). 'Why I left Facebook': Stubbornly Refusing to not Exist even After Opting out of Marck Zuckerman's Social Graph. In Unlike Us Reader, edited by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch, 220-238. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Irani, Lilly, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, and Rebecca E. Grinter (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on design and development. In Proceedings of CHI2010, April 10-15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Jackson, Steven J. (2014). Rethinking Repair, in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, eds. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, and Kirsten Foot.
Joerges, Bernward (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts?. In Social Studies of Science, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 411-431
NENT (2007), Guidelines for research ethics in science and technology
Patrignani and Whitehouse, Diane (2014). Slow Tech: a quest for good, clean and fair ICT, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 12 Iss: 2, pp.78 - 92
Ramasastry, Anita (2012). Girls Around Me (website article)
Sharkey (2014), Towards a principle for the human supervisory control of robot weapons.
van der Velden, Maja (2014). Re-politicising Participatory Design: What can we learn from Fairphone. In Culture and Technology and Communication (CaTaC14).
van der Velden, Maja (2011). When knowledges meet: Wikipedia and other stories from the contact zone. In Geert Lovink & Nathaniel Tkatz (eds.),Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader.
Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2008). Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological artifacts. In Philosophy and Design, no. 1, pp. 91-103.
Winner, Langdon (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?. In Daedalusvol. 109, no. 1, pp. 121-136
Documentaries (video)
Dannoritzer, Cosima (2010). Pyramids of Waste, AKA The Lightbulb Conspiracy. (52 mins)
Poulsen, Frank Piasecki (2010)."Blood in the mobile" (82 mins)
Schei, Tonje (2014). "Drone" (58 mins)
Trier, Emil (2009). "The Norwegian Solution" (33 mins)
Vlemmix, Peter (2012). "Panopticum" (60 mins)
Other Resources (not obligatory)
Meeting 1: Introduction
Mueller, P.A. and D.M. Oppenheimer (2014). The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: The Advantages of Longhand over Laptop Note Taking. In Psychological Science (online first)P
Meeting 2: Theoretical perspectives on technology
Feng, Patrick and Andrew Feenberg (2008). Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process. In: Philosophy and Design, 105-118.
Meeting 3: Techno-Social designing
Enough Project (2012). Conflict Minerals
Good Electronics (2015). International Network on Human Rights and Sustainability in Electronics
Friends of the Eart et al (2015). Katanga Calling.
RadioLab (2015). The Trust Engineers (podcast with Facebook engineers)
Meeting 4: (Urban) Mining
BBC Panorama (2015). Apple's Broken Promises (video, 55 mins): Workers making Iphone 6 and tin mining for Apple
How to extract gold from ... (Youtube search)
Profundo (2015). Electronics, Mining, and Urban Mining
Meeting 5: The adoption and diffusion of technology
Bauwens, Michel (2015). The Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics
Meeting 6: The labour of technology / Planned obsolescence
BBC Panorama (2015). Apple's Broken Promises (video, 55 mins): Workers making Iphone 6 and tin mining for Apple
China Labour Watch and Future in Our Hands (2015). Something is not right here: Poor working conditions persist at Apple Supplier Pegatron.
Josephs, Hillary (2014). Production Chains and Workplace Law Violations: The case of Apple and Foxconn.
Wired (23 Oct. 2014). The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
Wiens, Kyle (2012). The shady world of repair manuals: Copyrighted for planned obsolescence.
Meeting 7: Does technology have politics?
Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Do Artifacts Have Gender?. Science Technology Human Values, vol. 20, no. 3, pp.332-351.
Graham, Richard (2014). A 'History' of Search Engines: Mapping technologies of Memory, Learning and Discovery. In Society of the Query, edited by René K?nig and Miriam Rasch, 105-120. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Mager, Astrid (2012). Algorythmic Ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines. In Information, Communication & Society Vol. 15, No. 5, June 2012, pp. 769–787
Michaels, Russel, Simon Ardizzone, and Robert Carrillo Cohen (2006). Hacking Democracy. (81 mins).
van der Velden, Maja (2008). What's love got to do with IT? On ethics and accountability in telling technology stories. In F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec, et.al. (Eds), Cultural attitudes towards technology and communication 2008 (pp. 27-39). Murdoch: Murdoch University.
Meeting 8: Technology and inequality
Winschiers-Theophilus, Heiek et al. (2010). Being participated: a community approach. In: PDC'10 Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference, pp 1-10.
Meeting 9: Technology, community, and relationships
Castells, Manuel (2007). Community, Power, and Counter-Power in the Network Society. In: International Journal of Communication, no. 1, pp. 238-266.
Ess, Charles (2011). Self, Community, and Ethics in Digital Mediatized Worlds. In Ess, Charles and Thorseth, May (eds.), Trust and Virtual Worlds: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Lang, pp. 3-30.
Grosser, Benjamin (2014). What Do Metrics Want. How Quantificaion Describes Social Interaction on Facebook. In: Computational Journal, no. 4, November 2014.
Kramer, Adam D.I., Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, vol. 111, no. 24.
Lodi, Simona (2010). Suicide Machine (website & video, 2:34 mins.)
Lovink, Geert (2012). What is the Social in Social media? In: e-flux, no. 40.
Matthias (2014). Delete Facebook (video, 4:52 mins.)
Pariser, Eli (2011). Beware of online "filter bubbles" (video, 9 mins.)
Schei, Tonje Hessen (2010). "Play again" (55 mins)
Shirky, Clay (2+11). The Political Power of social media. In: Foreign Affairs, no. 28, pp. 28-41.
Twenge, Jean M. (2013). Does Online Social Media Lead to Social Connection or Social Disconnection? In: Journal of College & Character, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 11-20
Uhls, Yalda et al. (2014). Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues. In. Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 39 (Oct), pp. 387-392.
Meeting 10: Technology, business, and human Rights
IHRB (2014). Business and Human Rights
Open Net Society (2011). West Censoring East
Tripathi, Salil (2011). Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference
Meeting 11: The surveillance society
Andrejevic, Mark (2014). Wikileaks, Surveillance, and Transparency. In International Journal of Communication, no. 8.
Datatilsynet (2014). Chilling down in Norway (report on Snowden effect)
Introna, Lucas D. and David Woods (2004). Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance: The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems. In Surveillance & Society, vol. 2, no. 2/3, pp. 177-198.
Onion News Network (2011). CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs (video 3:32 mins).
NRK (2014) Smart eller overv?ket? (doc. 28:53 mins)
Richards, Neil M. (2013). The Dangers of Surveillance. Harvard Law Review, 2013.
Meeting 12: Ethics and technology
Adam, Alison (2005). Delegating and Distributing Morality:Can We Inscribe Privacy Protection in a Machine? In Ethics and Information Technology, vol 7, no. 4, pp. 233-242.
Ess, Charles (2007). Cybernetic pluralism in an emerging global information and computer ethics. In International Review of Information Ethics, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 94-123.
Feenberg, Andrew (2010). Ten paradoxes of technology. In Techne, 14(1).
Haly, Tim (2012). The unintented consequences of technology (website)
Jonas, Hans (1973). Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the new tasks of ethics. In: Social Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 31-54.
Introna, Lucas D. (2007). Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible. In Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 11-25.
Kiran Asle H. (2011) Responsible Design: A Conceptual Look at Interdependent Design–Use Dynamics. In: Philosophy & Technology.
McFadden, Syreeta (2014). Teaching the camera to See my Skin: Navigating photography's inherited bias against dark skin. On: Buzzfeed.
Robertson, Toni (2006). Ethical Issues in Interaction Design. In: Ethics and Information Technology, no. 8, pp. 49–59.
Shilton, Katie (2012). Value Levers: Building Ethics Into Design. In: Science Technology & Human Values (23).
Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2006). Materializing Morality: Design Ethics and technological Mediation. In: Science, technology, & Human Values, 31(3):361-380.
Meeting 13: Fair technology
- VIDEOS
BBC (2012). Secrets of the superbrands: Technology. (Documentary, 49 mins)
Cradle to Cradle: A Strategy of Hope (MIT, 2010, 85 mins).
Cradle to Cradle Design: William McDonough on Eco-Friendly Design (Standford University, 72 mins.).
Cradle to Cradle Design: Waste = Food (by Rob van Hattum, VPRO, 2007)
Leonard, Annie (2010). The Story of Electronics. (8 mins).
Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2014). Rethinking Progress (3:48)
- ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Blevis, Eli (2007). Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse. CHI 2007 Proceedings
Fry, Tony (2010). On Good design. Introduction to Unsettled: Inkahoots.
Gill, Alison and Abby Mellick Lopes (2012). Recoding abandoned products: Student visual designers experiment to sustain product lives and values. In: Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 233-253.
Jung, Heekyoung, Shaowen Bardzell, Eli Blevis, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman (2011). How Deep Is Your Love: Deep Narratives of Ensoulment and Heirloom Status. International Journal
Muis, Henk (2006). Eternally Yours. In: User Behavior and Technology Development, vol 20, pp 277-293
- BOOKS
Fry, Tony (2009). Design Futuring: Sustainability, ethics, and new practice. New York: Berg, 278 pp.
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things. New York: North Point Press, 193 pp.
McLellan, Todd (2013). Things Come Apart: A teardown manual for modern living. London: Thames & Hudson, 127 pp.
Walker, Stuart and Giard Jacques (eds) (2013). The Handbook for Design for Sustainability. London: Bloomsbury, 550 pp.
- WEBSITES
The Story of Stuff Project
Re-coding Mac G5
Meeting 14: Autonomous systems
The Intercept (2015). The Drone Papers (leaked documents about Obama's drone wars).
Wired (2015). Google’s Lame Demo Shows Us How Far Its Robo-Car Has Come.
UNSORTED
Asdal, Kristin (2008). Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing. In Geoforum, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 123-132.
Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Do Artifacts Have Gender?. Science Technology Human Values, vol. 20, no. 3, pp.332-351.
Callon, Michel (1997). Keynote Speech: Actor-Network Theory - The Market Test. Final version published in John Law and John Hassard (eds), Actor Network Theory and After, Blackwell, 1998.
Carr, Nicholas (2008). Is Google making us stupid?. In: The Atlantic, July/Ag.
Gee, David (2012). The Precautionary Principle (report).
Grisot, Miria (2010). Ordering logics of information practices: a case on heart transplant. English translation of: Grisot, M. (2010): “Ordningslogikker i informasjonspraksiser – en case fra hjertetransplantasjon”. Kapittel 4 i Aanestad M. og Olaussen I. eds. IKT og samhandling i helsesektoren. Digitale lappetepper eller s?ml?s integrasjon? . Tapir Akademisk Forlag.
IARC (2011). IARC classifies radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possible carcinogenic to humans. (press release)
Johnson, Deborah G. (2010). Sorting out the question of feminist technology. In: Feminist technology by Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, and Kate Boyer (eds.)(36-54), University of Illinois.
Lovink, Geert and Nathaniel Tkacz (2011). "Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam, Institute for Networked Cultures.[ pdf ]
Mager, Astrid (2012). Algorythmic Ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines. In Information, Communication & Society Vol. 15, No. 5, June 2012, pp. 769–787
M?rtberg, Christina (1999). Technoscientific challenges in feminism. In NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 7: 1, pp. 47-62
Norwegian Institute of Public health (2012): Low-level radiofrequency electromagnetic fields – an assessment of health risks and evaluation of regulatory practice (English summary). (report)
Philip, Kavita, Irani, Lilly and Paul Dourish (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, 000(00), pp. 1-27.
Pols, Jeanette (2010). Wonderful Webcams: About Active Gazes and Invisible Technologies. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, (36): 451-473
Star, Susan Leigh (1991). "Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: on being allergic to onions". In John Law (ed), A sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology and domination. London: Routledge, pp. 26-56
Suchman, Lucy (2002). Local accountabilities in technology production
Sundin, Olof (2011). Janitors of knowledge: constructing knowledge in the everyday life of Wikipedia editors. In: Journal of Documentation, Vol. 67 Iss: 5, pp.840 - 862.
Turnbull, David (2000). Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers. London: Routledge (263 pp.).
van der Velden, Maja and Christina M?rtberg (2012). Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, November, (37): 663-683
Winner, Langdon (1993). Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 362-378.
Woodhouse, Edward and Jason W. Patton (2008). Design by Society: Science and technology studies and the social shaping of design. InDesign Issues, 20(3):pp. 1-12
Wyatt, Sally (2008). Technological determinism is dead: Long live technological determinism. In The Handbook of Science & Technology Studies, E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch and J. Wajcman (eds), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 165-181.
REGULATORY ECOLOGY OF THE MOBILE PHONE
Rodriquez et al (2015). iGO Green: A Life Cycle Assessment of Apple's iPhone