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Make sure you check this periodically, I expect that this schedule will be modified in some ways throughout the semester
| Date | Topic/Theme | Readings/Materials (readings to be done before class) |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jan | Introduction & Ethics | Machine Intelligence makes Human Morals more Important, Moral Machine |
| 17-Jan | Cognitive Dissonance | Cognitive Dissonance (1962), Using Cognitive Dissonance Theory to Understand Privacy Behavior (2017), Cognitive Dissonance |
| 22-Jan | Computing and Criminal Justice | When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid (2018), Weapons of Math Destruction - Chapter 5 (2016), The New Science of Sentencing, AI & the police state,(optional extra) Calling Bullshit case study, |
| 24-Jan | Ubiquity of Data in/on Society (student) | Critical Questions for Big Data (2012), Big Data - A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights (2016), The Era of Blind Faith in Big Data Must End |
| 29-Jan | Privacy | Multiparty Privacy in Social Media (2018), A Precautionary Approach to Big Data Privacy (2015), United States of Secrets, In High-Tech Cities, No More Potholes, but What About Privacy?, I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone, What the G.D.P.R., Europe’s Tough New Data Law, Means for You, GDPR makes it easier to get your data, but that doesn’t mean you’ll understand it |
| 31-Jan | Privacy (student) | Personal information privacy and emerging technologies (2013), Information Privacy Concerns, Procedural Fairness, and Impersonal Trust: An Empirical Investigation (1999), Patriot Act, How Americans have viewed government surveillance..., The state of privacy in post-Snowden America, Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security, and Surveillance |
| 05-Feb | Social Media & Social Capital | Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? (2016), China's Social Credit System (2018), Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, Situating China's Social Credit System in History and Context, Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking |
| 07-Feb | Social Media & Social Capital (In-class movie, BM S3E1) | |
| 12-Feb | Social Media & Social Capital (student) | Understanding Social Media Logic (2013), China’s social credit systems and public opinion: Explaining high levels of approval (2019), The complicated truth about China's social credit system, How China Is Using “Social Credit Scores” to Reward and Punish Its Citizens, How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers |
| 14-Feb | Race & Computing | Race and racism in Internet Studies (2012), Saving Face (2020), Race Defined, Is your software racist? Facebook Hate Speech Quiz |
| 19-Feb | Gender & Computing (student) | Lagesen (2008), Stoilescu (2010), Galpin (2002), Women in Computer Science |
| 21-Feb | Diversity & Computing (student) Final Project Proposal Due | Jackson (2013), Dubow (2013), The Problem with Diversity in Computing, Women and Minorities in Tech, By the Numbers |
| 26-Feb | The Digital Divide | Digital Divide: Impact of Access (2017), The Contemporary US Digital Divide (2015), Providing Equitable Access to Computing Education (2018), How the internet keeps poor people in poor neighborhoods |
| 28-Feb | Computing and Criminal Justice | When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid (2018), Weapons of Math Destruction - Chapter 5 (2016), The New Science of Sentencing, AI & the police state,(optional extra) Calling Bullshit case study |
| 04-Mar | Intelligent Systems in Computing and society (student) | Understanding Natural and Artificial Worlds (Simon Chapter 1), The Morphospace of Consciousness (2018), Thinking Machines, (Optional)From Artificial Intelligence to Consciousness |
| 06-Mar | Intelligent Systems in Computing and society (In-class movie, WW S1E1) | |
| 11-Mar | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| 13-Mar | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| 18-Mar | No class | No class |
| 20-Mar | Computing and Politics | Do Artifacts Have Politics? (1980), A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter, Why am I seeing this?, The Secretive Organization Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook Political Ads, Russian Disinformation...Ukraine |
| 25-Mar | Computing and War | Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon (2011), Pros and Cons of Autonomous Weapons Systems (2017), Cracking Stuxnet, Autonomous Weapons Would Take Warfare To A New Domain, Without Humans, A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments |
| 27-Mar | Computing and War (BM S3E5) | |
| 01-Apr | ~2 minute initial (Rough Draft) videos for final project topic due (should talk through digital poster) | |
| 03-Apr | Computing and War (student) | AI and the future of Warfare (2017), How might AI affect the risk of Nuclear War? (2018) |
| 08-Apr | ~5 minute final video for digital poster due | |
| 10-Apr | Computing, Work, and Wealth | Mateescu & Elish (2019), Weapons of Math Destruction - Chapter 7 (2016), American Segregation, mapped at day and night |
| 15-Apr | Computing and Simulated Environments and Life after Death | Are we living in a computer simulation? (Bostrom, 2003), Digital Twins (2018), Are we living in a computer simulation? (Bach, 2016), This cartoon explains why Elon Musk thinks we’re characters in a computer simulation. He might be right., Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?, Why You Should Believe in the Digital Afterlife |
| 17-Apr | Computing and Simulated Environments and Life after Death (In-class movie) | |
| 22-Apr | Computing and Health | Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm ... (Obermeye, 2019), "The Human Body is a Block Box" ... (Sendek, 2020), The race to save the first draft of coronavirus history from internet oblivion |
| 24-Apr | Wrap up and course reflection | |
| 27-Apr | Last day of classes! Medium Post due by 11:59pm |