What we are Reading
Current Reads
Data Feminism: D’Ignazio and Klein
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
Algorithms of Oppression: Noble
Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
Other Resources
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
