A few months ago, I tweeted asking for syllabi or a reading list on digital rights — essentially, anything as it pertained to the rights of humans in a new, elusive arena. The tweet came from a need and an interest on my part to dive deeper into advocacy work for immigrants and people of colour as it pertains to their interactions with technology, surveillance, and data privacy. However, as I began looking for courses in my own graduate program, I found a dearth of resources. But, people on Twitter came through!
Below, I’ve made an absolutely not exhaustive list of resources that I’ve found or people have sent me on the issue. I’ll try to keep updating the list as I access more. If you see something I’ve missed, please comment (!!) or email me at ab4529@columbia.edu
Happy reading!
Update: Some really great people have created a near exhaustive list of syllabi here: Tech Ethics Curricula
Syllabi
Computing & American Culture, Stanford Dept. of Communications
Hacker Culture & Politics, NYU Steinhardt
Racializing Surveillance, UTexas Communication & Rhetorical Studies
Digital Media, Brown Modern Culture & Media
Current Issues in Internet Law, Yale Law
Copyright X, Berkman Klein Center and Harvard Law (online)
Computers, Ethics & Public Policy, Stanford Computer Science
When Machines Decide, University of Utah Praxis Lab
Internet Technology, Economics and Policy, Columbia Computer Science
Algorithms for the People, Brown University Computer Science
Tech x Racial Justice Crowdsourced Resources, Coding it Forward
Other reads/resources
Digital Government Reading List, Canadian Digital Service
It’s Time for a Bill of Data Rights, MIT Technology Review
A Predictive Policing Syllabus, The New Inquiry
Digital Equity Lab, The New School
Data 4 Black Lives Conference Notes
Ties That Bind, The Engine Room
On Recent Research Auditing Commercial Facial Analysis Technology, Medium
Recent Tech Ethics & Policy News, Casey Fiesler
