Obligatory Literature
Book
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2016, 2nd edition). Technology and Society: Social Networks, Work, and Inequality. OUP: Canada (336 pp).
Articles and Book Chapters
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)
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.
Jackson, Steven J. (2014). Rethinking Repair, in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, eds. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, and Kirsten Foot.
Sharkey (2014), Towards a principle for the human supervisory control of robot weapons.
van Oost, Ellen (2003). Materialized Gender: How shavers configure the users' femininity and masculinity. In van Oudshoor, Nelly and Trevor Pinch (eds), How Users matter: The co-construction of Users and Technologies. London, The MIT Press, pp. 193 -208.
van der Velden, Maja (2014). Re-politicising Participatory Design: What can we learn from Fairphone. In Culture and Technology and Communication (CaTaC14).
Documentaries (video)
BBC Panorama (2015). Apple's Broken Promises (video, 55 mins): Workers making Iphone 6 and tin mining for Apple
Cradle to Cradle Design: Waste = Food (by Rob van Hattum, VPRO, 2007) or
Cradle to Cradle Design (William McDonough, 2005)
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)
Vlemmix, Peter (2012). Panopticum (60 mins)
VPRO (2015). Mobile Gold (47 mins)
Extra Resources (can be used for project reports)
Resources in BOLD are especially recommended
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)
Hawkins, Stephen et al. (2015. Autonomous Weapons: an Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers
Mann, Steve et al. (2016). Code of Ethics on Human Augmentation: the three 'Laws'
Stockholm Resilience Centre (2016). Planetary Boundaries
Meeting 2: Materials
BBC Panorama (2015). Apple's Broken Promises (video, 55 mins): Workers making Iphone 6 and tin mining for Apple
Enough Project (2012). Conflict Minerals
Friends of the Eart et al (2015). Katanga Calling.
Good Electronics (2015). International Network on Human Rights and Sustainability in Electronics
How to extract gold from ... (Youtube search)
Profundo (2015). Electronics, Mining, and Urban Mining
Meeting 3: Theory
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).
Feng, Patrick and Andrew Feenberg (2008). Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process. In: Philosophy and Design, 105-118.
Haly, Tim (2012). The unintented consequences of technology (website)
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.
Joerges, Bernward (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts?. In Social Studies of Science, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 411-431
Jonas, Hans (1973). Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the new tasks of ethics. In: Social Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 31-54.
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.
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
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 (2006). Materializing Morality: Design Ethics and technological Mediation. In: Science, technology, & Human Values, 31(3):361-380. (or)
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
NENT (2007), Guidelines for research ethics in science and technology
Meeting 4: Surveillance
Andrejevic, Mark (2014). Wikileaks, Surveillance, and Transparency. In International Journal of Communication, no. 8.
Poitras, Laura (2014) Edward Snowden - Citizen Four. (NRK tv)
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.
NRK (2014) Smart eller overv?ket? (doc. 28:53 mins)
Onion News Network (2011). CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs (video 3:32 mins).
Richards, Neil M. (2013). The Dangers of Surveillance. Harvard Law Review, 2013.
Waddell, Kaveh (2015) The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists.The Atlantic (online)
Meeting 5: Gender
Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Do Artifacts Have Gender?. Science Technology Human Values, vol. 20, no. 3, pp.332-351.
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.
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
Meeting 6: Autonomous systems
Arkin (2013). Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-Combattant
Centre for the Study of the Drone
Mager, Astrid (2012). Algorythmic Ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines. In Information, Communication & Society Vol. 15, No. 5, June 2012, pp. 769–787
Pro Publica (2016). Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
The Intercept (2015). The Drone Papers (leaked documents about Obama's drone wars).
Meeting 7: Sustainability / Micro-meso level
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
Meeting 8: Re-design
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
Meeting 9: Privacy (and social media)
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.
Cadwalladr, Caroline (2016). Google, democracy and the truth about internet search The Guardian (online)
Cavoukian, A. (2007). Privacy by Design: Foundational principles. Information & Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
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.
Hern, Alex (2016). Your battery status is being used to track you online. The Guardian (online)
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.)
Ramasastry, Anita (2012). Girls Around Me (website article)
Shilton, Katie (2012). Value Levers: Building Ethics Into Design. In: Science Technology & Human Values (23).
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
Meeting 10: Human Rights
Bauwens, Michel (2015). The Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics
China Labour Watch and Future in Our Hands (2015). Something is not right here: Poor working conditions persist at Apple Supplier Pegatron.
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.
IHRB (2014). Business and Human Rights
Josephs, Hillary (2014). Production Chains and Workplace Law Violations: The case of Apple and Foxconn.
Open Net Society (2011). West Censoring East
Tripathi, Salil (2011). Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference
Wired (23 Oct. 2014). The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
Meeting 11: Repair
iFixit (2016). iFixit: The free repir manual for everyone
Wiens, Kyle (2012). The shady world of repair manuals: Copyrighted for planned obsolescence.
Meeting 12: ICT and Development
Irani et all. (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on design and development. In Proceedings of CHI2010, April 10-15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Philip, Kavita, Irani, Lilly and Paul Dourish (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, 000(00), pp. 1-27.
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.
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 13: Macro perspective
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.).
Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2014). Rethinking Progress (3:48)
Leonard, Annie (2010). The Story of Electronics. (8 mins).
COURSE METHODOLOGY
Stahl, Bernd C. (2013). Teaching Ethical Reflexivity in Information Systems: How to Equip Students to Deal With Moral and Ethical Issues of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies. In Journal of Information Systems Education, v.22(3), pp. 253-260.
UNSORTED
Asdal, Kristin (2008). Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing. In Geoforum, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 123-132.
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.
Castells, Manuel (2007). Community, Power, and Counter-Power in the Network Society. In: International Journal of Communication, no. 1, pp. 238-266.
Gee, David (2012). The Precautionary Principle (report).
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.
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)
Lovink, Geert and Nathaniel Tkacz (2011). "Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam, Institute for Networked Cultures.[ pdf ]
Michaels, Russel, Simon Ardizzone, and Robert Carrillo Cohen (2006). Hacking Democracy. (81 mins).
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)
Pols, Jeanette (2010). Wonderful Webcams: About Active Gazes and Invisible Technologies. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, (36): 451-473
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.).
Trier, Emil (2009). "The Norwegian Solution" (33 mins)
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.