Algorithms and AI (Weeks 7-9)

Monday, October 1 (Week 7)

• Lev Manovich, “The Database” from The Language of New Media (2001), pages 218-236
• Jason Farman, “Fidget Spinners: How Buffer Icons Have Shaped Our Sense of Time” from Real Life (2017)
• Blog (Round 4): Group A

Wednesday, October 3

• Safiya Umoja Noble, “A Society, Searching” from Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018), pages 15-63
• Blog (Round 4): Group B

Friday, October 5

• Case Study 3 (Student-Led)

Monday, October 8 (Week 8)

• Fall Break on Monday

Wednesday, October 10

• Cathy O’Neil, “Bomb Parts” and “Civilian Casualties” from Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016), pages 15-31 and 84-104
• Rachel Thomas, “When Data Science Destabilizes Democracy and Facilitates Genocide” from Fast.ai (2017)
• Blog (Round 4): Group C

Friday, October 12

• Case Study 4 (Student-Led)

Monday, October 15 (Week 9)

• Zeynep Tufekci, “We’re Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads” TED Talk (2017)
• James Bridle, “Something Is Wrong on the Internet” from Medium (2017)
• Blog (Round 4): Group D

Wednesday, October 17

• “Hang the DJ” from season 4, episode 4 of Black Mirror (2017)
• Ed Finn, “Building the Star Trek Computer” from What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (2017), pages 57-77
• Blog (Round 5): Group A

Friday, October 19

• Case Study 6 (Student-Led)

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