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 […]

I’ve rolled over my unfinished reading into a new list. I’ll be updating the list as I finish books and add new ones to the queue. Algorithmic Accountability Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts Custodians of the […]

I had originally included my reading list in the last post, but I keep adding more books to it! It’s tough knowing that it’ll be a while before get through it, but it’s been a GREAT year for learning. Algorithmic Accountability Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by […]

By way of introduction, here’s what I have read over the last 12 months. I am grateful to the MBTA and the Minuteman Library Network for making this possible. Algorithmic Bias Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil. Important book revealing how algorithms discriminate in education, finance, […]