Members of the EVID Lab meet several times a month to discuss books that we’ve recently read. Here’s a few titles we have reviewed during the 2021-22 school year.
2021 – 2022
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape, by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism, by Martin Arboleda
2020 – 2021
Automation and the Future of Work, by Aaron Benanav
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media, by Tarleton Gillespie
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, by Margaret O’Mara
Cybersecurity ABCs, by Jessica Barker, Adrian Davis, Bruce Hallas, Ciarán Mc Mahon
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Design Justice, by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Futureproof, by Kevin Roose
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, by N. Katherine Hayles
Mutual Aid, by Dean Spade
Norms in the Wild, by Cristina Bicchieri
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, by Ruha Benjamin
Self-Tracking, by Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, by Whitney Phillips
The Undersea Network, by Nicole Starosielski
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, by Jane Bennett
Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries, by Gina Neff