Algorithmic accountability
Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
by Sarah T. Roberts
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias
The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture by Jonathan Cohn
Other professional reading
Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym
Rockonomics: What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics (and Our Future) by Alan Krueger – ON HIATUS
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Marie Hicks
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Words Without Music by Philip Glass – ON HIATUS
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Pleasure reading
There There by Tommy Orange
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey – ON HIATUS
Brazil: a biography by Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Decameron by Giovanni Boaccaccio – ON HIATUS
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin – IN PROGRESS