Reading Group
2023-2024: Our working group engages texts and draft papers relevant to the theme of our workshop. We meet biweekly, on Monday at noon, in Mason Hall 2303. To get more information about our group, including the texts we will be discussing, please ask to join our email list by emailing lmanuali@umich.edu or filling out the Google Form on the homepage of this site. As we move through the semester, readings will be posted below:
Jan 22, 2024 | "Digital Distraction, Attention Regulation, and Inequality" by Kaisa Kärki in Philosophy and Technology
Feb 4, 2024 | Seth Lazar (2022), "Legitimacy, Authority, and Democratic Duties of Explanation"
Feb 19, 2024 | Waldman, A. E. (2020). Algorithmic Legitimacy. The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithms, 107-120. and Waldman, A. E. (2022). Privacy's Rights Trap. Nw. UL Rev. Online, 117, 88.
Mar 3, 2024 | “The illusion of artificial inclusion” (2024) by William Agnew, A. Stevie Bergman, Jennifer Chien, Mark Díaz, Seliem El-Sayed, Jaylen Pittman, Shakir Mohamed, Kevin R. McKee
Mar 18, 2024 | Nick Schuster and Seth Lazar (2024) in Phil Studies: "Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation"
Apr 15, 2024 | Seth Lazar (2023), “Governing the Algorithmic City”, Tanner Lecture and Cory Doctorow (2023), “The ‘Enshittification of TikTok’”, WIRED
2022-2023: Our working group engages texts and draft papers relevant to the theme of our workshop. We meet biweekly, on Thursday, in Mason Hall 2303. To get more information about our group, including the texts we will be discussing, please ask to join our email list by emailing jrpeter@umich.edu.
2021-2022: Our working group will engage in texts relevant to the theme of the workshop. As the workshop is organized, we will include our reading list below.
Oct 6, 2021 | Scott Skinner-Thomson (2020), Privacy at the Margins
Oct 20, 2021 | Judith Jarvis Thomson (1975), The Right to Privacy
Nov 4, 2021 | T.M. Scanlon (1975), Thomson on Privacy and James Rachels (1975) Why Privacy is Important
Nov 18, 2021 | Jeffrey Reiman (1976), Privacy, Intimacy, and Personhood and Andrei Marmor (2015) What is the Right to Privacy?
Dec 7, 2021 | Salome Viljoen (forthcoming) A Relational Theory of Data Governance
Jan 25, 2022 | David Pozen (2018) Transparency's Ideological Shift
Feb 7, 2022 | Meeting with Gabe Mendlow (U-M Law) Thoughts, Crimes, and Thoughtcrimes
March 10, 2022 | Pre-read for the 2022 Spring Colloquium
Oct 27, 2022 | Espinoza & Aronczyk (2021) Big data for climate action or climate action for big data?
Nov 10, 2022 | Thakkar et. al. (2022) When is Machine Learning Data Good?: Valuing in Public Health Datafication
Dec 8, 2022 | Dalton et. al. (2016) Critical Data Studies: A dialog on data and space
Jan 26, 2023 | Prince & Schwarcz (2020) Proxy Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
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