Resources - Readings - Automated Literacies

What we are reading

Here is an overview of what we are reading, thinking with when we are writing. Feel free to send us any additional resources at automatedliteracies(at)sfu.ca.

General Resources
Methods
Literacies
Literacies in Community Settings

General Resources

Amoore, L. (2020). Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others. Durham: Duke University Press.
Barocas, S., & Selbst, A. D. (2016). Big Data’s Disparate Impact Essay. California Law Review, 104(3), 671–732.
Beer, D. (2017). The social power of algorithms. Information, Communication & Society, 20(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1216147
Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sfu-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5820427
Bivens, R., & Haimson, O. L. (2016). Baking Gender Into Social Media Design: How Platforms Shape Categories for Users and Advertisers. Social Media + Society, 2(4), 2056305116672486. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116672486
Bucher, T. (2017). The algorithmic imaginary: Exploring the ordinary affects of Facebook algorithms. Information, Communication & Society, 20(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1154086
Carrington, V. (2018). The Changing Landscape of Literacies: Big Data and Algorithms. 11.
Colman, F., Bühlmann, V., O’Donnell, A., & Van Der Tuin, I. (2018). Ethics of Coding: A Report on the Algorithmic Condition | EoC Project | Fact Sheet | H2020. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/732407
Combes, M. (2013). Gilbert Simondon and the philosophy of the transindividual / Muriel Combes. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.
Costanza-Chock, S. (2018). Design Justice: Towards an intersectional feminist framework for design theory and practice.
Couldry, N., & Mejias, U., A. (2019). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/doi/10.1177/1527476418796632
Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2023). The decolonial turn in data and technology research: What is at stake and where is it heading? Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 786–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1986102
D’Ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data Feminism. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11805.001.0001
Dixon-Román, E., Nichols, T. P., & Nyame-Mensah, A. (2020). The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2020.1667825
Dixon-Román, E., & Parisi, L. (2020). Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence. Communication and the Public, 5(3–4), Article 3–4. https://doi.org/10.1177/2057047320972029
Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks. (First edition.). New York, NY : St. Martin’s Press.
Ferreira da Silva, D. (2022). Unpayable Debt. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/648018/unpayable-debt-by-denise-ferreira-da-silva/
Gillespie, T. (2014). The Relevance of Algorithms. In T. Gillespie, P. J. Boczkowski, & K. A. Foot (Eds.), Media Technologies (pp. 167–194). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262525374.003.0009
Glissant, É. (1997). Poetics of relation / Édouard Glissant ; translated by Betsy Wing. University of Michigan Press.
Gourlay, L. (2021). There Is No “Virtual Learning”: The Materiality of Digital Education. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.7821/naer.2021.1.649
Keeling, K. (2020). Queer times, black futures / Kara Keeling. New York : New York University Press.
Lee, U., & Toliver, D. (2017). Building Consentful Tech. https://www.andalsotoo.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Building-Consentful-Tech-Zine-SPREADS.pdf
Lewis, J. E., Abdilla, A., Arista, N., Baker, K., Benesiinaabandan, S., Brown, M., Cheung, M., Coleman, M., Cordes, A., Davison, J., Duncan, K., Garzon, S., Harrell, D. F., Jones, P.-L., Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, K., Kelleher, M., Kite, S., Lagon, O., Leigh, J., … Whaanga, H. (2020). Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper [Monograph]. Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. https://doi.org/10.11573/spectrum.library.concordia.ca.00986506
Lewis, J. E., Arista, N., Pechawis, A., & Kite, S. (2018). Making Kin with the Machines. Journal of Design and Science. https://doi.org/10.21428/bfafd97b
Little, B., & Winch, A. (2021). The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429291005
Lury, C., & Day, S. (2019). Algorithmic Personalization as a Mode of Individuation. Theory, Culture & Society, 36(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418818888
Mackenzie, A. (2003). transduction: Invention, innovation and collective life.
Mackenzie, A. (2005). Problematising the Technological: The Object as Event? Social Epistemology, 19(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691720500145589
Maynard, R., & Betasamosake Simpson, L. (2022). Rehearsals for Living. Knopf Canada. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sfu-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6814938
Mbembe, A. (2021). Futures of Life and Futures of Reason. Public Culture, 33(1), 11–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742136
McKittrick, K. (Ed.). (2015). Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375852
Mohamed, S., Png, M.-T., & Isaac, W. (2020). Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence. Philosophy & Technology, 33(4), 659–684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00405-8
Neyland, D., & Möllers, N. (2017). Algorithmic IF … THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power. Information, Communication & Society, 20(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1156141
Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/book/64995
Oyedemi, T. D. (2019). Global Digital Capitalism: Mark Zuckerberg in Lagos and the Political Economy of Facebook in Africa. 17.
Pink, S. (Ed.). (2022). Everyday automation: Experiencing and anticipating emerging technologies. Routledge.
Pink, S., Fors, V., & Glöss, M. (2018). The contingent futures of the mobile present: Automation as possibility. Mobilities, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2018.1436672
Pink, S., Sumartojo, S., Lupton, D., & Heyes La Bond, C. (2017). Mundane data: The routines, contingencies and accomplishments of digital living. Big Data & Society, 4(1), 2053951717700924. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717700924
Pybus, J., & Coté, M. (2022). Did you give permission? Datafication in the mobile ecosystem. Information, Communication & Society, 25(11), 1650–1668. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1877771
Rabardel, P. (2003). From artefact to instrument. Interacting with Computers, 15(5), 641–645. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-5438(03)00056-0
Rabardel, P., & Bourmaud, G. (2003). From computer to instrument system: A developmental perspective. Interacting with Computers, 15(5), 665–691. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-5438(03)00058-4
Raghavan, M., Barocas, S., Kleinberg, J., & Levy, K. (2020). Mitigating bias in algorithmic hiring: Evaluating claims and practices. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 469–481. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372828
Seaver, N. (2017). Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data & Society, 4(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717738104
Sefton-Green, J., & Pangrazio, L. (2021). The death of the educative subject? The limits of criticality under datafication. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 0(0), Article 0. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1978072
Simondon, G. (1958). Du mode d’existence des objets techniques. AUBIERFLAM.
Simondon, G. (2007). Individuation psychique et collective (L’): À la lumière des notions d’information et de potentiel. Flammarion.
Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409–428. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.79.3.n0016675661t3n15
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2014). Unbecoming Claims: Pedagogies of Refusal in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry, 20(6), 811–818. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800414530265
Tucker, I. (2013). Bodies and surveillance: Simondon, information and affect. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 14(1), 30–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2013.766225
Tucker, I. M. (2021). Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds. Theory & Psychology, 09593543211055199. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211055199
Ytre-Arne, B., & Moe, H. (2021). Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation. Media, Culture & Society, 43(5), 807–824. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720972314

Methods

Bhatt, I., & De Roock, R. (2014). Capturing the sociomateriality of digital literacy events. Research in Learning Technology, 21. https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21.21281
Boilevin, L., Chapman, J., Deane, L., Doerksen, C., & Fresz, G. (n.d.). Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside. Research 101 : A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside. Retrieved September 4, 2023, from https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0377565
Castañeda, L., & Williamson, B. (2021). Assembling New Toolboxes of Methods and Theories for Innovative Critical Research on Educational Technology. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.7821/naer.2021.1.703
Cellard, L. (2022). Surfacing Algorithms: An Inventive Method for Accountability. Qualitative Inquiry, 16.
Coté, M., & Pybus, J. (2016). Simondon on Datafication. A Techno-Cultural Method. Digital Culture & Society, 2(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2016-0206
de Freitas, E. (2017). The temporal fabric of research methods: Posthuman social science and the digital data deluge. Research in Education, 98(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523717723386
de Freitas, E., Sinclair, N., le Roux, K., Solares-Rojas, A., Coles, A., & Ng, O.-L. (2021). New Spatial Imaginaries for International Curriculum Projects: Creative Diagrams, Mapping Experiments, and Critical Cartography. Qualitative Inquiry, 10778004211068201. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211068201
Ingold, T. (2017). Surface Visions. Theory, Culture & Society, 34(7–8), Article 7–8. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417730601
Jackson, A. Y., & Mazzei, L. A. (2013). Plugging One Text Into Another: Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412471510
Koro, M. (2021). Speculative Experimentation in (Methodological) Pluriverse. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211032535
Kuntz, A. M. (2022). Speculative Experimentation, Exclusion, and Uneven Material Agencies: A Response to Mirka Koro’s Egon Guba Lecture. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211034469
Lury, C., & Wakeford, N. (2012). Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social. Taylor & Francis Group. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sfu-ebooks/detail.action?docID=981968
Parisi, L. (2012). Speculation: A method for the unattainable. In Inventive Methods. Routledge.
Parisi, L. (2021). Black Feminist Tools, Critique, and Techno- poethics.
Rettberg, J. W. (2020). Situated data analysis: A new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0495-3
Ross, J. (2022). Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202134
TallBear, K. (2014). Standing With and Speaking as Faith: A Feminist-Indigenous Approach to Inquiry. Journal of Research Practice, 10(2), Article 2. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2230947090/abstract/78BEC129916D4559PQ/1
Thiel, J. J., & Jones, S. (2017). The literacies of things: Reconfiguring the material-discursive production of race and class in an informal learning centre. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(3), 315–335. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798417712343

Literacies

Burnett, C., & Merchant, G. (2021). Returning to Text: Affect, Meaning Making, and Literacies. Reading Research Quarterly, 56(2), 355–367. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.303
Collier, A., & Ross, J. (2017). For whom, and for what? Not-yetness and thinking beyond open content. Open Praxis, 9(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.1.406
Ehret, C. (2024). Critical literacies in algorithmic cultures. Literacy, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12363
Emejulu, A., & McGregor, C. (2019). Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education. Critical Studies in Education, 60(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1234494
Hackett, A., & Somerville, M. (2017). Posthuman Literacies: Young Children Moving in Time, Place and More-Than-Human Worlds. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798417704031
Leander, K. M., & Burriss, S. K. (2020). Critical literacy for a posthuman world: When people read, and become, with machines. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12924
Nichols, T. P., Smith, A., Bulfin, S., & Stornaiuolo, A. (2021). Critical Literacy, Digital Platforms, and Datafication. In The Handbook of Critical Literacies. Routledge.
Nichols, T. P., Thrall, A., Quiros, J., & Dixon-Román, E. (2024). Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization. Reading Research Quarterly, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.535
Pangrazio, L., & Selwyn, N. (2019). ‘Personal data literacies’: A critical literacies approach to enhancing understandings of personal digital data. New Media & Society, 21(2), 419–437. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818799523
Pangrazio, L., Stornaiuolo, A., Nichols, T. P., Garcia, A., & Philip, T. M. (2022). Datafication Meets Platformization: Materializing Data Processes in Teaching and Learning. Harvard Educational Review, 92(2), 257–283. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-92.2.257
Pötzsch, H. (2016). Materialist Perspectives on Digital Technologies. Nordicom Review, 37(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2016-0006
Stornaiuolo, A., Smith, A., & Phillips, N. C. (2017). Developing a Transliteracies Framework for a Connected World. Journal of Literacy Research, 49(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X16683419
van Leent, L., & Mills, K. (2018). A Queer Critical Media Literacies Framework in a Digital Age. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 61(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.711

Literacies in Community Settings

Castek, J., & Jacobs, G. E. (2020). Empowerment in Digital Literacy Acquisition Programs: Learners Who Become Tutors. In Literacy Across the Community. Routledge.
Castek, J., Pendell, K., Jacobs, G., Pizzolato, D., Withers, E., & Reder, S. (2015). Volunteers in an Adult Literacy Library Program: Digital Literacy Acquisition Case Study. Research Briefs and Case Studies. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/dla_research_briefs/19
Gangadharan, S. P. (2017). The downside of digital inclusion: Expectations and experiences of privacy and surveillance among marginal Internet users. New Media & Society, 19(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815614053
Ghoshal, S., Mendhekar, R., & Bruckman, A. (2020). Toward a Grassroots Culture of Technology Practice. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW1), Article CSCW1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392862
Kobrin, J. D. (2024). Identity, positioning, and platforms: A case study of an older job seeker in a community technology center. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 67(4), 229–238. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1321
Pendell, K., Withers, E., Castek, J., & Reder, S. (2013). Tutor-facilitated Adult Digital Literacy Learning: Insights from a Case Study. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 18(2), 105–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2013.800013
Perry, J., & Luk, A. (2018). Volunteer Tutors: Agents of Change or Reproduction? An Examination of Consciousness, Ideology, and Praxis: Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 30(1), 19–32.
Singh Kelsall, T., Seaby Palmour, J., Marck, R., Withers, A. J., Luongo, N., Salem, K., Sutherland, C., Veark, J., Patrick, L., Bailey, A., Boyd, J., Lawrence, Q., Fleury, M., Govorchin, A., Crompton, N., Vance, C., Edwards, B., Swaich, A., Kelsall, A., … McDermid, J. (2023). Situating the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. Social Sciences, 12(10), 549. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100549